5-year
Plan
- Traveling Trailer - visits schools and parks, teaches about how to design, build and test-fly a simple airplane (such as a balsawood glider). Tools, materials and A/V equipment help bring the lessons to life.
- Gallery - a small store is rented where handcrafted flying art is created, displayed and sold. It will have workshops in back, skilled instructor/artists, and many students of all ages and backgrounds.
- Test Flight Hill - the centerpiece of the Institute will have been located. Test Flight Hill is a gently sloping grassy hillside, with plenty of prevailing breezes sweeping up the slope. Everything flies better on a hill!
- Transition - all the elements: the gallery, workshops, classrooms and the hillside, are combined into one campus, located at the top of Test Flight Hill. Funds will be raised, and then a permanent building will be designed and built. The Traveling Trailer continues visiting schools all across the region.
- Grand Opening - the Air Art Institute opens to the public. Students and visitors enjoy building and flying their own creations. They experience the Art of Flight. The re-opened Gallery sells flying art to the public, and also operates the commercial web site to sell art and instructional content worldwide. The Institute establishes a fund to support aviation research, and each year awards a grant.
