Aviation should be part of every school’s curriculum.
It gives a reason for all that boring stuff you have to learn at school. There’s the whole collection of core subjects that can be fitted in to an aviation context. Actually building an aircraft just becomes a force multiplier in the equation.
At a fly-in earlier this year a gentleman who was involved with the project told me that the above mentioned Boeing / RAeS – Build a Plane Challenge had chosen the Rans S6 because of my aircraft. According to the Light Aircraft Association ‘WK is the highest hours home-built aircraft in the country, so they felt comfortable with it as a choice for the schools to build. They did say they had problems due to the rules on age and experience of getting people to fly the completed aircraft. I’m hoping to get the call at some stage to do some flying for them.