Young aviation buffs (pre-K to eighth grade) can learn about the wonders of air and space travel this summer at the Frontiers of Flight Museum, located at 6911 Lemmon Avenue near Dallas Love Field. Campers attend the museum's “Flight School” and participate in a variety of activities, like designing a spaceship, working with aerial navigation charts, building model airplanes, and launching model rockets, among a variety of other fun-filled camps. Each activity is age-appropriate with an emphasis on the physics and/or history of flying and exploration. Day camps start at $45 and four-day camps are $175 and up. For a complete camp schedule, click here.
The museum, a Smithsonian Institution Affiliate, is a gem in the North Texas community that attracts over 100,000 visitors annually including 30,000 students. Housed in a modern 100,000-square-foot facility, the Frontiers of Flight Museum provides a focal point to explore the history and progress of aviation, as mankind continues to pursue going higher, faster and farther. The museum’s "Flight School" offers educational and recreational classes for all ages throughout the summer, designed to excite the imagination in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) through spacecraft design, aerodynamics, model-building, space survival, and other disciplines.
FRIDAY FLIGHTS (Ages 4 and 5)
Children explore “Space,” meet a “Famous Flyer,” take a “Trip to the Airport” and end with “Let’s Take a Flight.”
FRIDAY LAUNCH (Ages 6 and 7)
Students learn the basics of flight with “Kites,” “Balloons,” “Butterflies,” and “Birds.”
AVIATOR’S WORKSHOP (Grades 3 through 6)
Students discover basic principles of flight with unique paper airplanes and a Flight Controls Trainer, work with aerial navigation charts, learn the International Phonetic Alphabet, visit aviation facilities at Dallas Love Field, and build and fly their own powered model airplane.
ROCKET SCIENCE (Grades (3 through 6)
From the early Chinese rockets to America’s missions to Mars, students explore the history of space flight, the Solar System, the mathematics of rocketry, and spacecraft engineering. They also design a space ship and build and launch a model rocket.
AERO LAB (Grades 7 and 8)
In a fun and challenging four-day experience, students gain a basic knowledge of flying weather, study aerial charts, and complete an aerial navigation exercise. They also conduct experiments on our new wind tunnel and go on a behind-the-scenes tour of D/FW International Airport.
ROCKET LAB (Grades 7 and 8)
Students construct their own advanced model rocket and participate in a space survival exercise. They also work in teams to plan a Martian space mission and build a multi-stage rocket. On a field trip to a local university, they launch their rockets and tour the campus’s science labs.
ADVANCED AERO (Grades 9 and 10)
Students focus on engineering projects. They will explore engineering principles while designing and building their own structures and applying their knowledge to aircraft design, load-bearing structures, and aircraft accident investigation.