AEROFAIR 2015 Video

We have produced a short video about the AEROFAIR 2015 event, and uploaded it on YouTube at our Aerospace Eng.USM Channel. Scenes from the video include the workshop session to build indoor planes in the morning, and the competition session in the afternoon. Still images of the winners, the participants from schools in Pulau Pinang, and the organizers (staffs and students from SAE) are shown at the end of the video.

Thanks to Koh Wei Chong, our 3rd year student at the School of Aerospace Engineering (SAE) USM, for the design and the editing of the video.



You can read more about AEROFAIR 2015 in this post. A report about the event and a module on the theory and construction of an indoor plane are also available.

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A Module on Indoor Flight

As a follow-up to the AEROFAIR 2015 outreach event in April 2015, we have produced a document titled "A Module on Indoor Flight: Basic Theory, Instruction Manual, and Event Organisation".

This module describes an outreach program on indoor flight for secondary school students and organizers of outreach programs. Its objective is to promote the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through hands-on activities related to aerospace engineering.

The module introduces indoor flight briefly and describes the need to promote STEM education in Malaysia. It contains three main sections: (1) basic principles of flight, (2) an instruction manual to build an indoor airplane, and (3) guidelines to organize an indoor flight event.

Indoor flight offers a number of advantages as an outreach program: inexpensive materials, simple construction techniques, numerous resources, practice aspects, and promoting HOTS (Higher Order Thinking Skills).

The Table of Contents below summarizes the 3 parts of the module:

You can download the PDF file of the manual here. You can also download the AEROFAIR 2015 Final Report here.

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