Hit Family Day at Udvar-Hazy this weekend | Art & entertainment

This Saturday is the next promotion: Family Day in the National Air and Space Museum. This is an entertaining event for everyone who is interested in aviation and space research. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center offers entertaining activities with which families in the Chantilly Museum are to be connected to the aircraft and artifacts in the hangar-like environment. The topic of this month is films about air and space.

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum organizes over six families on site all year round. Three take place in the Museum in Washington DC and three take place in Udvar-Hazy.

“We know that families have a lot to deal with. We want to make the museum easier for you. These family days are a way for us to do this, to support the learning, to support the interest that have their children or have interests from funding, ”said Gale Famisan Robertson, a specialist for family learning in the National Air and Space Museum of Smithsonian.

Every family day correlates with what the museum emphasizes in the course of the month. These are films for March. Udvar Hauch is presented in at least one film “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. It is even more important that the museum contains a collection of props, models and replicas with film pieces. Visitors can see a model of the mother ship from “close encounters of the third species” and a Boeing CV2 freight aircraft, which was mounted with an X-wing body shell from “Star Wars”. The museum also has a Grumman F-14 Tomcat, the same model of the combat aircraft that is used in the film “Top Gun”.

On Saturday, Tom Paone, the lighter curator of the museum, will discuss how models are used for filming and how and why the museum collects them. He will refer to a model of the Hindenburg airship, which was used in the 1970s “The Hindenburg”.

Younger children (4 to 8) can take part in the stories. The book of this month is “The Littlest Airplane” by Brooke Hartman.

“The book talks about how aircraft have different jobs. There is a fighter plane; There is a passenger plane, ”said Famisan Robertson. “Harvest disorders are built in such a way that they fly slowly and low to the ground. So we read the book, and then there is an activity in which children can think about how they would create a cartoon character from an airplane. ”

The museum has fun and fast planes to inspire children while making their cartoon aircraft. An example is an Air Tractor Crop Duster that resembles dusty crop hopper from the film “Airplanes”. There is a similar but more difficult activity for older children. You will learn how to make storyboards and put them together to create an action.

Families can also tell the documentary at 1:40 p.m. Sir Patrick Stewart, who played Captain Jean Luc Picard in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”. The audience learns the challenges and triumphs of NASA, and the space community has introduced itself to a new era in space since the Space Shuttle program.

Families who do not make it to the museum can still visit the Soar Together Family Day page of the National Air and Space Museum online. There you will find a button “Activities to carry out somewhere”. This page has space facts, videos, scientific experiments that you can try and book the recommendations that match every topic of the family day. The pages of the earlier family day pages remain active and make this a great resource for every prospective Space Explorer.

The Family Day is free, but for stories that take place at 10 a.m., registration is required, and parking from 1 p.m. at Udvar-Hazy is $ 15. The day of the next month in Soar Together Family Day: Aerospace in Miniature will also be at Udvar-Hazy on April 25th.