Discover Flight - Against Gravity
2 & 3 Sept 2003, 0800 - 1730 h daily

Discover Flight was a workshop held in celebration of the 100th year of powered flight. This first-ever aviation workshop was designed for secondary school students with the aims of providing them with a bird's eye view of aviation and to allow the experts from Singapore Technologies Aerospace and the RSAF Air Force School to share their experiences and passion with the participants. Organised by ST Aerospace and supported by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Singapore Science Centre, the workshop was held for two days and benefitted 207 students.

On 2nd Sept, 102 students from 15 secondary schools attended the workshop while on 3rd Sept, 105 students from 13 secondary schools were in attendance. The workshop's programme included a video show of early flight attempts, a talk on the history and principles of flight, a demonstration of remote controlled planes, a visit to the Air Force Museum, interaction opportunities with pilots and aircraft maintenance personnel and competitions in making airfoils and paper airplanes. The participants left knowing more about the world of aviation.