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Page 2: Safety Information
› › › IMPORTANT INFORMATION Dear Parents, Safety Information Engineering is an extremely exciting and vast field. This kit, WARNING: along with its illustrated storybook and instruction manual, provides an engaging way to teach simple engineering CHOKING HAZARD — Small parts. concepts to preschool-age kids. - Page 3 Story by Ted McGuire Illustrations by Dan Freitas and Ashley Greenleaf 567007-02-280415...
- Page 4 Aircraft Engineer › › › KIT CONTENTS Checklist: Find – Inspect – Check off What’s inside your kit: Description Qty. Item No. Anchor pin removal tool 7061-W10-B1Y 7261-W85-A Connector clip 7261-W85-B1B Medium dowel 7330-W11-A1T Long dowel 7330-W11-B1D 5-hole rod, orange...
- Page 5 Meet the Omega Family! Ty and Karlie Omega are siblings. They live in a small Ty loves figuring out how things work. Karlie loves city called Makersville. Ty and Karlie’s dad is a writer. He building things. writes science fiction stories. Their mom is a mechanical When Ty and Karlie were little, Ms.
- Page 6 Ty and Karlie’s Aircraft Engineering Adventure begins ... he Omega family was ready for a vacation. They had arrived yet,” sighed Ms. O. packed up, driven to the airport, parked the car, and “We can build our own passenger plane, Mom!” Ty exclaimed. checked into the flight.
- Page 7 Aircraft Engineer PALOMA THE PASSENGER JET Medium dowels Short dowels Medium dowel Short dowel Continued >>>...
- Page 8 Aircraft Engineer Short dowel Done! “Now boarding!” Paloma the Passenger Jet called out. “Nonstop to the tropical islands, boarding now.” The jet carried them to the island. It was a smooth flight. Ty loved looking out the window and seeing the blue-green waters below.
- Page 9 The Omegas were staying in a little group of guest cottages called the Beach Hotel. It had grass roofs and seashell walls. Outside their cottage they met a scientist named Dr. Bluewater. “We are studying sea turtles out on a remote island, but the ocean is too wavy today for us to safely take a boat to the island,”...
- Page 10 Aircraft Engineer HELEN THE HELICOPTER Short dowel Short dowel Medium dowel Medium dowels...
- Page 11 Aircraft Engineer Medium dowel “Hello! I’m Helen the Helicopter. I can fly you out to the sea Done! turtle island. My rotor can lift us into the air.”...
- Page 12 Helen flew Ty, Karlie, Huxley, Remus, and Dr. Bluewater out “Oh no!” Huxley exclaimed. “The tide has come in and now to the island. there is nowhere for our helicopter to take-off!” After dropping Dr. Bluewater off, he gave them an “I ‘heart’ “I know what we can do!”...
- Page 13 Aircraft Engineer CECILE THE SEAPLANE Short dowel Medium dowels Short dowel Short dowel Continued >>>...
- Page 14 Aircraft Engineer Done! Medium dowels Cecile the Seaplane took off from the water’s surface with ease. “My pontoons allow me to float on the water’s surface just like a boat!”...
- Page 15 Cecile flew Ty, Karlie, Huxley, and Remus back to the beach word across the whole island on such short notice?” where Mr. and Mrs. O were standing at the edge of the water. “I have the perfect solution,” Ty stated confidently. “Let’s build They were talking to a large man with a big mustache.
- Page 16 Aircraft Engineer PAULY THE PROPELLER PLANE Medium Medium dowel dowels Short dowels...
- Page 17 Aircraft Engineer Medium dowel Pauly took off from the road next to the beach and unfurled the banner before flying around the Done! whole island.
- Page 18 Everyone on the beaches around the island saw the banner. “Ty and I want to go hang-gliding!” shouted Karlie. They were all excited about the invitation to the party. Huxley looked nervous. Remus danced around in excitement. “Great work kids!” Ms. O declared. “This is going to be a great “I think Huxley can help you do that,”...
- Page 19 Aircraft Engineer HANK THE HANG GLIDER View from below Short dowels Continued >>> Medium dowel Medium dowel...
- Page 20 Aircraft Engineer Short dowels Done! Ty, Karlie, Huxley, and Remus took a small taxi up to the top of the old volcano in the middle of the island. In fact, the whole island was created by a volcano that grew up from the ocean floor.
- Page 21 The hang glider was a little difficult to steer. They wanted to glide toward the beach, but strong winds blew them off course. “Uh oh! We’re going to land in that fenced off airfield down there!” shouted Karlie. “Looks like a NASA launch site,” suggested Ty.
- Page 22 SAM THE SPACE PLANE Medium Short dowels dowels “Hey you! What are you doing in here?” a woman in a spacesuit asked curiously. “We made a wrong turn somewhere up there,” Ty said jokingly while pointing to the sky. “Are you an astronaut?!?” Karlie shouted.
- Page 23 Aircraft Engineer Medium dowel Done! Medium dowel “3 … 2 … 1 … Blast off!” Sam the Space Plane shouted as his engines fired up and he took off into space.
- Page 24 In no time they were orbiting Earth. “How should we get back to the Beach Hotel? It’s on the other side of the island,” asked Ty. “I’m floating!” laughed Karlie. “This is so wonderful!” “Huxley, can you build a solar glider so we can soar back to “If you look down there, you can see the island we took off the beach? It’s so sunny …...
- Page 25 Aircraft Engineer GILDA THE SOLAR GLIDER 2 short dowels 3 medium dowels Medium dowel Short dowel “Hi! I’m Gilda the Solar Glider,” said Gilda. “The solar panels on my wings create electricity from sunlight. The electricity powers my small propeller but most of the time, I just glide.
- Page 26 Gilda the Solar Glider took Karlie, Ty, Huxley, and Remus back to the beach hotel. The barbecue was just getting started. The flight was both peaceful and beautiful. “Hey kids! How was OUTER SPACE!?!” Mr. O asked. days. They went hiking, surfing, and swimming. They had “Ah-maz-ing!”...
- Page 27 Aircraft Engineer BILLY THE BIPLANE 4 short Medium dowels dowel Medium dowel Medium dowels Done! “Flight 1903 to Makersville, now boarding,” said Billy. “I’ll take you home now.”...
- Page 28 Everyone in the Omega family was sad to leave the island, “Hmmm … maybe if we build a plane with three wings but they were also excited to go home. They loaded their instead of two, we can get home faster? luggage and boarded the biplane.
- Page 29 Aircraft Engineer TRIP THE TRIPLANE Short dowels Medium dowel Short dowels Medium dowels Continued >>>...
- Page 30 Aircraft Engineer Done! “Trip the Triplane at your service,” Trip stated politely. “I will take you back to Makersville.”...
- Page 31 The Omega family boarded Trip and they took off. But Trip the Triplane was even slower than Billy the Biplane! “Oops … you know, with all these wings, I think there is a lot of drag “YEAH!!” shouted Karlie. “Huxley, slowing us down,”...
- Page 32 Aircraft Engineer SCOOTER THE SUPERSONIC JET PLANE...
- Page 33 Aircraft Engineer Done! “Scooter the Supersonic Jet Plane at your service!” said Scooter. “I can fly faster than the speed of sound! My average speed is 20 times faster than a car driving on the highway.”...
- Page 34 “I’ll get you home in no time!” Scooter the They thanked Scooter, disembarked the plane, Supersonic Jet Plane declared. “My jet engines and walked back home. push air behind us so quickly that we move “Wow!” said Karlie. “This has been the most forward really fast!”...
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