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“Mainly it’s for children. It gives them something interactive
so they can experience the museum. It’s also important to
bring people back to the museum who have been here in the
past and want to see something new.”
Ace Academy Flight Experience touches
down in Edmonton
Visitors to the Alberta Aviation Museum will be able to
channel their First World War flying ace with a new
travelling exhibit the museum is hosting.
Ace Academy Flight Experience is on loan from
Ingenium, which operates three national museums in
Motion-sensing technology moves the on-screen aircraft to shoot at energy
Ottawa including the Canada Aviation and Space
targets.
Museum.
Ingenium has also commissioned two accompanying smart
phone apps which allow visitors to continue the flight
experience on their own. The first, Ace Academy, will also
teach users about the science of Flight and the role of military
aviation 100 years ago. Ace Academy: Black Flight is the
sequel and gives access to more aircraft and more air battle
scenarios. Both are available for Apple and Android devices.
Ace Academy Flight Experience is on display at the Alberta
Aviation Museum until November 1. It’s free to use with your
admission. Drop by and check out this innovative virtual flight
Ace Academy Flight Experience is flown by moving your arms to experience.
control a First World War I biplane.
“It’s a video game with motion-sensing technology that The game is shown on a large-screen TV screen as you are
was developed by them for a more hands-on museum surrounded on all sides by a diorama depicting the skies over
experience,” says AAM Assistant Curator Ryan Lee. “It Europe during the Great War.
allows you to fly by moving your arms left and right, up Lee says he is delighted to have the exhibit here till November
and down. The plane is a Sopwith Ship Camel and you 1 , 2019, particularly since the museum is looking to provide
st
are trying to shoot down German aircraft during the more for its younger visitors.
First World War while dodging enemy fire.”
AAM Assistant Curator Ryan Lee trying out the new travelling exhibit.
