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Careers
A menu of learning opportunities that our youth-led organization can select from.
Aerial Reconnaissance Analyst
Hand-on Activities
Aligning and viewing of stereo photo pairs of the Earth using optical viewers
Aviation features treasure hunt using Google Maps (under development)
Aerial Reconnaissance Employers memory game (under development)
Making 3D models of objects with a cell phone using photogrammetry software (awaiting software licenses)
Adding StreetView & PhotoSphere where they are lacking in the community (a hands on community service)
Potential Tours
USGS Aerial Photograph archive at Moffett Field
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
Zurich Airport's Terminal A, reconstructed from airborne LIDAR data from Swisstopo, Swiss Topographical Institute
21 March 2025 Swisstopo, Swiss Topographical Institute, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
USGS digital orthophoto of Niagara Falls International Airport in New York
28 March 1995 United States Geological Survey (USGS), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Dutchess County Airport (KPOU) in Wappinger, Dutchess County, New York.
18 November 2008 Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Aerial photograph of Copenhagen Airport.
15 May 2019 kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
EAA AeroEducate "Quiet The Skies" jet engine exhaust scalloping project (untested by team)
Demos from Stephen Ressler lectures and Wayne Place textbook (under development)
Potential Tours
Joby Aviation manufacturing plant, Marina Municipal Airport, California (representative said yes)
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
The toothed exhaust-duct covers on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
This is N787BA, the airframe that made the maiden flight in December 2009.
15 July 2011 Eric Prado, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Wing Structure with the skin removed of a DH 60G Gipsy Moth.
August 2008 Peripitus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Structure of an aircraft wing : (1) Wing root (2) Spars (3) Ribs (4) Leading edge (5) Trailing edge (6) Wing tip
Own work based on the F-102 Cross Drawing published on Wikimedia Commons by Marcin Zieliński
30 November 2006 Marcin Zieliński, Groumfy69, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Aircraft Dealer
Hand-on Activities
TBD
Potential Tours
TBD
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
Air Traffic Controller
Hand-on Activities
Plane Talk practice sessions with a CFI
Pilot Alphabet spelling bee
Watching our Flight Tracker computer display while listening to tower communications under the guidance of CFO Henry Jessel.
Play the Airfix ATC game for a 747 flight from London to NYC-JFK (in acquisition, needs testing)
TBD
Potential Tours
RHV Control Tower
SJC Control Tower
SFO Control Tower
FAA ZOA Oakland ARTCC (Air Route Traffic Control Center) Fremont, CA
FAA NCT TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control) Mather, CA
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
Air traffic controllers direct air and ground operations atop the new air traffic control tower June 11, 2013, at Pope Field, N.C. The new tower is Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certified, stands 11-stories tall and boasts more than 9,000 square feet of internal space. (U.S. Air Force illustration/Tech. Sgt. Peter R. Miller)
11 June 2013 Tech. Sgt. Peter R. Miller / U.S. Air Force, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Air Traffic Management EcoSystem
15 September 2015 Honeywell International, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) Mechanic
Hand-on Activities
Take apart (and maybe put back together) internal combustion piston engines
Take apart an electric induction motor, a brushed electric DC motor and an
electric brushless DC motor and compare the differences
Play the EAA timed Cleco temporary rivet installation game
Potential Tours
Gavilan College's A&P program
A local FBO at RHV
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
Diagram of a typical gas turbine jet engine (in English).
Air is compressed by the fan blades as it enters the engine, and it is mixed and burned with fuel in the combustion section.
The hot exhaust gases provide forward thrust and turn the turbines which drive the compressor fan blades.
16 December 2007 Jeff Dahl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
J79-IHI-11A turbojet engine(cutaway model) exhaust section & nozzle right rear view at JASDF Hamamatsu Air Base Publication Center
24 November 2014 Hunini, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Werner Von Braun standing next to the five F-1 engines of a Saturn V first stage.
A pioneer of America's space program, Dr. von Braun stands by the five F-1 engines of the Saturn V Dynamic Test Vehicle on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
Designed and developed by Rocketdyne under the direction of the Marshall Space Flight Center, a cluster of five F-1 engines was mounted on the Saturn V S-IC (first) stage.
The engines measured 19-feet tall by 12.5-feet at the nozzle exit and burned 15 tons of liquid oxygen and kerosene each second to produce 7,500,000 pounds of thrust.
The S-IC stage is the first stage, or booster, of a 364-foot long rocket that ultimately took astronauts to the Moon.
Unknown date. Probably 1969 NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Airbus A350-941 (reg. F-WWCF, MSN 002) main landing gear at ILA Berlin Air Show 2016.
2 June 2016 Julian Herzog, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Airline Manager
Hand-on Activities
Play the Airport Madness Manager board game
Potential Tours
TBD
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
TBD
Airport Architect, Civil Engineer or Structural Engineer
Hand-on Activities
Demos from Stephen Ressler lectures and Wayne Place textbook (under development)
Reading technical document sets for civil projects
Build circuits using Snap-Circuit kits (limited number of kits currently available)
Build circuits using Elneco-style trainers (limited number of kits currently available)
Build circuits using solderless prototype boards (limited number of kits currently available)
Reading technical document sets for electrical projects
Reading electronic schematics
Take apart surplus electronic devices and identify components
Potential Tours
TBD
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
The Air Launch Cruise Missile (ALCM) offensive Avionics System in the lower deck area of a B-52 Stratofortress aircraft from the 92nd Bombing Wing
30 May 1984 SSGT Bob Simons, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Martlet 3 was a rocket prototype built by the Cambridge University Spaceflight project. The flight control instruments were distributed across many circular boards, stacked inside the narrow cylindrical rocket body.
29 July 2016 Adam Greig from Cambridge, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Interior Designer / User Experience Designer
Hand-on Activities
TBD
Potential Tours
TBD
Potential Guest Speakers
TBD
Panorama of the Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina
23 January 2010 Martin St-Amant (S23678), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Terminal 4 of the airport Madrid-Barajas, Spain
9 January 2013 Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jewel Changi Airport is a nature-themed entertainment and retail complex surrounded by and linked to one of the passenger terminals of Changi Airport, Singapore.
16 August 2023 Tslai, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Terminal E of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, seen from a slightly elevated point on the stairs.
27 May 2019 This Photo was taken by Supanut Arunoprayote., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
TWA Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens, New York City, NY
3 August 2019 Warren LeMay from Cullowhee, NC, United States, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
TWA Flight Center, JFK Airport, NYC.
3 August 2019 w_lemay, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Investigator
Hand-on Activities
Unpack a specific NTSB aircraft accident report
Play Analytical Methods Acronym and Capabilities memory game (under development)
Potential Tours
Exponent (formerly Failure Analysis Associates), Menlo Park
Evans Analytical Group (EAG), Sunnyvale
Quanta Laboratories (vibration testing), Santa Clara
Chris Kerlee, a loadmaster at Atlas Air, loads cargo onto a Boeing 747 transport aircraft at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., July 8, 2016.
Approximately 300 U.S. Airmen and 12 F-16 Fighting Falcon jets from the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire JNGB, S.C., are deploying to Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea,
as the 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron in support of the U.S. Pacific Command Theater Security Package.
(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Megan Floyd)
Unit: 169th Fighter Wing
DVIDS Tags: PACAF; South Korea; South Carolina; S.C.; Pacific Air Forces; Pacific Command; TSP; PACOM; cargo load; Republic of Korea;
deployment; Eastover; 169th Fighter Wing; McEntire Joint National Guard Base; South Carolina Air National Guard; SCANG; Boeing 747; Theater Security Package; S.C. Air National Guard; S.C. Air Guard
8 July 2016 Airman 1st Class Megan Floyd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Cargo aircraft Boeing 747-400F loading cargo on Václav Havel Airport Prague, Czech Republic
11 October 2015 Karelj, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pago Pago, AS, October 13, 2009 -- Mark Ackerman (in navy blue shirt), Federal Emergency Management Agency Staging Area Manager, oversees the unloading of generators from the Antonov AN-225 cargo plane.
The cargo plane is the largest in the world and carried generators contracted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist the island with electrical power restoration. Casey Deshong/FEMA
13 October 2009 Casey Deshong, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Toll 737 aircraft with staff in the main deck ready for loading freight
28 November 2012 Toll Group, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chris Kerlee, a loadmaster at Atlas Air, waits to load cargo onto a Boeing 747 transport aircraft at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, S.C., July 8, 2016.
Approximately 300 U.S. Airmen and 12 F-16 Fighting Falcon jets from the 169th Fighter Wing at McEntire JNGB, S.C., are deploying to Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, as the 157th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron in support of the U.S. Pacific Command Theater Security Package.
(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Megan Floyd)
Unit: 169th Fighter Wing
DVIDS Tags: PACAF; South Korea; South Carolina; S.C.; Pacific Air Forces; Pacific Command; TSP; PACOM; cargo load; Republic of Korea; deployment; Eastover;
169th Fighter Wing; McEntire Joint National Guard Base; South Carolina Air National Guard; SCANG; Boeing 747; Theater Security Package; S.C. Air National Guard; S.C. Air Guard
8 July 2016 Airman 1st Class Megan Floyd, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo of aircraft container and pallet loader showing its numerous powered rollers for shifting and rotation of containers.
Taken in Hong Kong International Airport. Zoom to the Mecanum wheels.
8 July 2013 Photograph: Jamesshliu Derivative work: Jahobr, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Boeing 757 DHL Loading cargo
14 July 2011 Curimedia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Photo showing a ULD loader lifting a ULD from apron dollies level to aircraft cargo bay level.
Unit Load Device (ULD) is standardized size air cargo container. All are apron Ground support equipment.
13 June 2014 Jamesshliu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Pilot, Commercial Manned
Hand-on Activities
Play the Sky Team board game (in acquisition, needs testing)
