AEROFAIR 2015: Indoor Flight

To get a glimpse of what Indoor Flight is, you can visit this art of flying at Float Documentary.

Here’s another awesome video that documents the hobby in more detail:

Indoor News and Views is a newsletter that contains a huge number of articles and indoor flight designs collected since the 1960s. Indoor Model Specialties, on the other hand, is a website that specializes in providing tools and supplies related to indoor flight.

You can also learn more about Indoor Flight through the links below:

1. A short introduction and some videos and tutorials on indoor flight.
2. Indoor Flight workshop in AEROFAIR 2014.
3. Our tutorial video on how to make a simple indoor plane.
4. Our manual on how to build a simple indoor plane.
5. More detailed tips to build an indoor plane by Chuck Markos.
6. Indoor Flight Competition in AEROFAIR 2014.

IMPROVING INDOOR FLIGHT WORKSHOP:
To improve on the Indoor Flight activity that we have done in AEROFAIR 2014, we are going to make some major changes on how we conduct the AEROFAIR 2015 program, especially the workshop sessions.

The first major change is that we are going to conduct both the workshop and the competition in one full day event, instead of the 2 separate half-day events in 2014. This change is a result of many comments from our participants last year that they want a longer session on the workshop to be able to build indoor planes that can actually fly at the end of the workshop. So, for this year’s program, we are making the workshop session longer, and topping up with a competition at the end to excite things up! The goal of the competition is very simple: to fly the longest. The world record for time of flight reaches over 1 hour. But for our competition at the beginner’s level, the maximum flight time is expected to be 2-3 minutes only.

The second major change is that we are going to organize a more interactive and focused workshop. To do this, the workshop will be run by about 20 teams of facilitators (consisting of our USM staffs and students), each assisting a small group of 2 participant teams. In this way, each participant teams can interact more closely with our facilitators to guide them in learning and building their own indoor planes until completion. Each of the participant team will consist of 5 school students accompanied by 1 teacher.