• Explorers attended the event and helped staff Post 747, South Bay Soaring Society, and EAA 338 booths.
• Explorers took photos and videos of formation flight demonstrations by the West Coast Ravens and NorCal Beech Boys.
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• Precision flying lecture and Q&A with Paul Marshall.
• Explorers were introduced to the essential concepts of precision and formation flight including common formations and maneuvers, coordination and planning with other pilots, and important safety considerations.
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• Explore Careers in Aviation Lecture Series Part 2 of 4: How Planes Are Built with EAA 338 Chairman Murlin Lee.
• Extended airport walk around with EAA 338 Chairman Murlin Lee looking at parked planes and plane carcasses to see how they are constructed.
• Discussion of airplane construction, riveting, and studying for aviation careers.

• Explore Careers in Aviation Lecture Series Part 1 of 4: Where the Jobs Are with CalPilots VP Captain Doug Rice.
• Captain Rice spoke about what careers the aviation industry hires for, and how to get them, with anecdotes and pictures from his own career.
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• Wing attachment project with EAA 338 member Fan Zhang at San Martin Airport
• Tour of Wings of History Air Museum

• Presentation by Peter Van Campenhout about his hobbies of Model Railroading, Combat Robotics & High Power Model Rocketry
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• Career mentorship session with Explorers
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Post 747 and Cub 707 attended Aviation Day as a group. Aviation Day is a free event for youth ages 11 to 18. It’s designed to give flight to young minds interested in careers within the air travel industry. Each year, attendees participate in fun, informative activities and interact with aviation workers, devices, and machinery essential to the industry, learning about a wide range of topics related to aviation. Visit the Aviation Day website for more information about the event.

• Getting a feel for weight and balance with physical exercises and balancing kitchen tools.
• Practicing weight and balance with hands-on activities including paper airplane building (and modification) and Suspend game.
• Walking around the airfield, observing planes and discussing their centers of gravity and balance.
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Scout-O-Rama is an annual event hosted by Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council at History Park San Jose. The event features booths by Scout Troops and various other adventuring and youth activity organizations.

• Hosted by EAA 20 at San Carlos Airport

• Walked through RHV Airfield to look at planes and surrounding facilities (Nice Air flight school, Tradewinds Aviation flight school, etc)
• Hands-on learning by balancing model aircraft propellers and rotors in a magnetic balancer (see images in gallery below).
• Hands-on learning with model aircraft assembly drawings. This drawing is for this plane. More drawings can be found in the image gallery below.
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• Discovering and applying principles of aerodynamics and engineering by constructing and testing paper airplanes. A Zap! Extra Complete Paper Plane Challenge kit and included book were used to guide the explorers in their experiments. Constructed planes were then flown in various challenges and competitions to test their airworthiness.
• Discussing upcoming projects, events, and opportunities. View presentation.
• Explorers to browse the Post 747 website and share what Careers and Activities interest them.
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• Surveying using a transit
• Learning about electricity with a Jacob's Ladder
• Explorers to browse the Post 747 website and share what Careers and Activities interest them.
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• Wind Tunnel experiments with airfoil, toy cars, and toy mammoth.
• New explorer sign-ups
• Explorers to browse the Post 747 website and share what Careers and Activities interest them.
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