Progress continued these past eight weeks on the P-51 sheet metal model project. SAB members picked up where they left off before Winter break, assembling all the cut-out pieces of both the wings and fuselage, making progress towards the completion of the final product. Members were able to choose to attend one of three weekly…

This past Friday, October 25th, SAB teamed up with members of Illinois’s Design Build Fly (DBF) team for the first outreach event of the 2025-25 school year. They assisted in Bloomington High School’s model rocket launch, sending rockets into the bright blue October sky!

Meetings have recently begun to start this semester’s project, a sheet metal model of the P-51! Members have split into two teams to each work separately on completing their respective parts of the project. One group is in charge of modeling, in NX Siemens, the plane’s fuselage and meets Sundays. The other group will be…

On Saturday, October 5th, SAB travelled to Willard Airport in Savoy to visit the Flightstar maintenance facility. We received an in-depth tour of different hangers used by Flightstar to manage their wide range of commercial and private costumers. Highlights included seeing Bombardier company aircraft ranging from the Learjet to the Dassault Falcon 20, the Institute…

To start off the 2024-25 school year, SAB held multiple sessions of classroom and build/construction training. New members got to learn the basics of aircraft construction in classroom, including parts of the Zenith CH750 and tools they would later use in the build training. There, they worked in groups to create a take home toolbox…

Chasing the last breeze of Autumn, several SAB members took a trip to Bloomington Central Illinois Regional Airport for a blast from the past, at Prairie Aviation Museum. Prairie Aviation Museum is an all volunteer organization that has provided displays, static aircraft, education programs, and other aviation events for over 35 years. SAB members are…