What Do a Boeing 314, 377, 707 and 747 Have in Common? Lesson Plan Two: Principles of Aircraft Control

Pictured top left to bottom right- Boeing 314, 377, 707 and 747

Garden City, NY- There is a lot of exciting news in store from the Pan Am Museum Foundation for 2017. Coming soon to the Cradle of Aviation is part two of the Boeing 314 exhibit, titled "Clippers Go to War." This section will highlight the contribution of Pan American World Airways and its fleet of B-314s during World War II.

Also in 2017, the debut of "The Boeing 377 Stratocruiser: A Luxury Story," the second of four complete exhibits that will make up "The Story of Pan Am." When finished, "The Story of Pan Am" will feature four groundbreaking aircraft;  B-314 Clipper, B-377 Stratocruiser, 707 Jet Clipper and 747 Jumbo Jet; all designed for Pan Am by The Boeing Company.

As the title of this blog post asks, what do the four Boeing aircraft in "The Pan Am Story" have in common? Despite their differences in design and power, they fly through the air because of the same principles of Aircraft Control, specifically the functions of pitch, roll and yaw.
See these principles in action by experimenting with aircraft control using a balsa wood glider and our Principles of Aircraft Control Lesson Plan. 

School groups that visit the Pan Am Exhibit at the Cradle of Aviation can arrange for a FREE class set of Pan Am Museum Foundation branded gliders by contacting our Director of Education, Guy Della Torre at guy@thepanammuseum.org. (Glider availability beginning in the second quarter of 2017)

Click Here for the Principles of Aircraft Control Lesson Plan