By experimenting with the weight or shape of your helicopter, you can change how it flies. Cut out more helicopters to compare with your first helicopter. What happens when you:
- Add a paper clip to the stem? Two paper clips?
- Fold the stem to make it shorter?
- Cut the blades shorter?
- Cut jagged edges on the blades, or make the blades rounded?
- Bend the blades the other way?
- What other variations can you think of to test?
- Museum Hours
-
- holiday hours (through Nov. 29)
- Monday – Thursday: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Friday – Saturday: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Sunday: 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- Open every day except Christmas Day
- holiday hours (through Nov. 29)
- Museum Location
- Getting Here
More Exhibits
- Exhibit
-
Transportation Gallery
Explore how humankind has flown, soared, sped and chugged throughout the years.
- Exhibit
-
Wright Flyer
Relive the birth of aviation alongside this history-making replica.
- Exhibit
-
Navy: Technology at Sea
Come aboard a Navy ship and learn the science and technology behind the U.S. military at sea.