Earn Your Wings: Design Lab

Design an airplane that flies faster, soars higher, and carries more weight.

Description

This interactive exhibit consists of four stations, each equipped with a 42-inch touch screen monitor and a larger "results view" projection screen. Visitors are invited to select one of three missions: design a military drone that flies higher, design a home-built kit plane that flies fasters, or design a giant cargo plane that can carry more weight.

The first step on each mission involves selecting the aircraft components in a 3D engineering software environment. Visitors can drag and swap out wings, engines, fuselage and airplane materials, while the projection screen displays in real-time the impact of their decisions on their plane's aerodynamics properties.

Once satisfied with their design, visitors test fly their airplane over a North Texas landscape to see whether it meets mission requirements.

My Involvement

  • Role: Interactive Producer

    • Generated interactive concept
      Developed game mechanics
      Generated conceptual content
      Created wireframes and experience flows
  • Tech: Photoshop
  • Year: 2010
  • Museum: Dallas Fort Worth Air & Space Museum
  • Traveling Exhibition: Ascent… When Dreams Defy Gravity

    May 28 - September 5, 2011


    Ascent…Where Dreams Defy Gravity is a traveling exhibition that tells the story of North Texas's proud aviation heritage and retraces the steps of pioneering aviators, scientists, and engineers, who made the region one of the world's premiere aerospace hubs.

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