![portrait de Mauro Marongiu](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2023-06/Mauro%20Marongiu.jpg?itok=QHz-D4ZQ)
Mauro Marongiu
Career Profiles
Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer
![Aircraft wing, pictured from the aircraft in flight](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-11/Aircraft%20wing%20tip.jpg?itok=_9yIlTJn)
Testing Aircraft Wings
Lessons
Students will explore how wing design affects lift using a testing device similar to a wind tunnel.
![Boeing 777 Ecodemonstrator aircraft](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/Ecodemonstrator_Boeing.jpg?itok=qIY5zVR1)
Sustainable Aerospace Firsts
Backgrounders
Learn how Boeing is making aviation more sustainable.
![B-58 Hustler in flight](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/B-58.jpg?itok=IQKuEKNz)
Testing for Aviation Safety
Backgrounders
Learn about some of the ways that aircraft and spacecraft are tested.
![Scale aircraft in a wind tunnel](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/Wind_Tunnel_Test.jpg?itok=fGLZha3Y)
Pre-flight Testing
Backgrounders
Learn about some of the ways Aerospace engineers test new designs.
![XB-35](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2022-01/XB-35.jpg?itok=O4nM5uk6)
Strange Shapes in the Sky: Stealth and Flying Wings
Backgrounders
Learn about how and why engineers designed and built some very unique aircraft.
![Otto Lilienthal's flying machine](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-12/otto-lilienthals-flying-machine-glider-1890s.jpg?itok=iY-hOAxy)
A History of How Humans Learned to Fly
Backgrounders
Learn how aviation pioneers from the world learned how to make humans fly!
![Four Harvard training aircraft](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-12/harvards.jpg?itok=54yNGDe_)
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 acting on an aircraft](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-11/Four_forces_of_flight.png?itok=6fuWyvYE)
Four Forces of Flight
Backgrounders
Learn about the four forces of flight.
![Hot air balloons at dawn](/sites/default/files/styles/resource_card_image_360x300_/public/2021-11/balloons_at_dawn.jpg?itok=peSW6144)
Lighter Than Air Vehicles
Backgrounders
Learn about history and workings of lighter than air vehicles.
![Space lander](/sites/default/files/2020-12/yellow-space-lander.jpg)
How can we land a model space probe?
Hands-on Activities
Design and build a model space probe.
![Alex Himmelman devant l'immeuble où il travaille](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2020-01/Alex%20Himmelman%20600.jpeg?itok=nwLEoogd)
Alex Himmelman
Career Profiles
Atlantic Director
![Peter Rautapuro | Ingénieur de systèmesIngénieur de systèmes](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2019-09/Peter%20Rautapuro_0.jpg?itok=9WrnUjKf)
Peter Rautapuro
Systems Engineer
![Sarah Dallaire | Pilote](/sites/default/files/styles/career_image/public/2019-09/Sara%20Dallaire.jpg?itok=v07R7cjJ)
Sarah Dallaire
Pilot, Snowbird 2 with the Air Demonstration Squadron 431
Jasraj Chahal
Career Profiles
Control System Engineer