Shamim Abbas
Career Profiles
Special Process Engineer
Making Waves with Radar
Backgrounders
Learn about how the radar works, the history and its many real life applications.
Sustainable Aerospace Firsts
Backgrounders
Learn how Boeing is making aviation more sustainable.
Testing for Aviation Safety
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Learn about some of the ways that aircraft and spacecraft are tested.
Pre-flight Testing
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Learn about some of the ways Aerospace engineers test new designs.
Strange Shapes in the Sky: Stealth and Flying Wings
Backgrounders
Learn about how and why engineers designed and built some very unique aircraft.
A History of How Humans Learned to Fly
Backgrounders
Learn how aviation pioneers from the world learned how to make humans fly!
How Planes Fly
Backgrounders
Learn about what gets planes up in the air, what keeps them up there, and what brings them down again.
Four Forces of Flight
Backgrounders
Learn about the four forces of flight.
Lighter Than Air Vehicles
Backgrounders
Learn about history and workings of lighter than air vehicles.
Resources on Physics and Aerospace
STEM Explained
Resource page including articles and career profiles related to physics and aerospace.
Sarah Dallaire
Pilot, Snowbird 2 with the Air Demonstration Squadron 431
Blair Hampel
Aerospace Control Operator
Allison Rumbolt
Helicopter Pilot
The Hovering Human
STEM Explained
Learn how a team of Canadian engineers used Bernoulli’s Principle to design a human-powered helicopter. It set a world record for human-powered hovering flight!