Flight Fun Days at Bristol Zoo
Children find out what makes planes, bats and rockets fly Airbus is helping youngsters understand how things fly in the natural world and what aircraft manufacturers can learn from the birds and the bees. Graduates from the company brought fun activities to the lawn at Bristol Zoo Gardens to help stimulate an interest in flight amongst the engineers for the future this week.
The Airbus marquee was full of a range of hands-on activities. Children made and flew their own planes, they learnt about propulsion and projected planes across the zoo lawn. The children also experimented with different materials and angles in a wind tunnel and learnt about lift. To continue the fun at home the children were given cut out and fly aeroplanes to take away.
Mother of two, Sarita Thomas from Chepstow said “The children enjoyed colouring in the pictures of the bats and the staff were very friendly and knowledgeable.”
Ellen Stonehouse, Fuel System Avionics Engineer said:
“The flight education days are perfect because they explain flight principles to younger people in a simple yet visually exciting way.”
Airbus employees regularly volunteer at the zoo as part of the company’s commitment to education and environment. The business has a longstanding sponsorship of the Livingstone’s fruit bat conservation project with the main aim of eliminating the ongoing threats to the existence of this rare species.
