Our final point of call at the Hendon museum was an area known as the Aeronauts Interactive Centre. It's brilliant! Here you'll find lots of hands-on, fascinating experiments for the children to play with and learn at the same time. Above you can see Sam in a cockpit and a scale model of a Spitfire in front of him. The control inputs made by Sam are mirrored on the model, which is being blasted by a high speed fan to reproduce airflow. Ace.
There are many, many excellent things to try out here. Such as a glider simulator:
Another flying controls demonstrator:
There's a model of the Eurofighter made entirely of bits and pieces:
Apparently it featured in a TV advert. I don't remember it:
The hang glider is quite impressive:
And that's it. You MUST visit this place, we both absolutely loved it, and WILL be going back.
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