Aviation International News senior correspondent Ian Goold has been involved in aerospace since 1964 and in aviation media for more than 40 years. He enjoyed a 20-year career at Flight International magazine, where he was latterly air-transport editor before turning freelance in 1993. A winner of the European Regions Airline Association Hank McGonagle award for excellence in aerospace journalism and a Royal Aeronautical Society Aerospace Journalist of the Year global&nbsp;award, he has edited or contributed to aerospace and aviation magazines, special publications, and websites in Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America. Ian entered aerospace as an apprentice at the British Aircraft Corporation at Brooklands (Weybridge), where he worked on production and final assembly lines of the Vickers Super VC10, and BAC One-Eleven , and manufacture of Concorde major sub-assemblies. He subsequently graduated from the BAC Design Training School to work in the airframe structures drawing office (including design of international future projects, such as the Panavia Tornado multi-role combat aircraft) before joining Flight International in 1973. Apart from years of reading aircraft magazines and books, his first direct contact with aviation media had come during the early 1970s when he was involved at Brooklands with the Weybridge Man-powered Aircraft Group, which designed and built the tenth aircraft to fly under purely human power. As an aviation journalist, he has worked at more than&nbsp; 50 of the major biennial&nbsp;global and regional international aerospace industry shows at Le Bourget, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai (having missed attending only one "Farnborough" since 1960), plus innumerable NBAA, HAI, (U.S.) AOPA, and EBACE Conventions and ERA Assemblies. His favourite aircraft is the Hawker Hunter, of which – as a schoolboy – he heard hundreds make their first flights from Dunsfold, where also on September 24, 2013, he saw the penultimate landing of the VC10 (happily involving an example of which he had witnessed the maiden takeoff in 1970) a day before the last example made the design's final flight (unless, of course....).

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Enthusiastic airshow delegates wishing to relax during their stay in the city-state can design and test-fly their own supersonic jet and take a simulated elevator ride to space, according to Science Centre Singapore (SCS) and Boeing (Stands U09 and U23). The U.S. manufacturer is partnering with SCS in the Above and Beyond interactive flight exhibition, which continues until April 8.

 


“Space travel and exploration has fascinated and inspired generations the world over," said SCS chief executive associate professor Lim Tit Meng. "What we have achieved through the centuries is proof that we can indeed transcend limitations through multiple domains of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics [STEM]. The exhibition has brought each subject to life and wraps up a full year of programs designed to celebrate the very best in STEM education.”

 


The 5,000-sq-ft presentation comprises five themed galleries—Up, Faster, Higher, Farther and Smarter—defining flight and space travel and the "marvels of aerospace innovation" including flight simulation, augmented, and "virtual" reality, touch-tables, and design-and-skill challenges.

 


"We hope that the Above and Beyond exhibit sparks a strong curiosity among the youth in Singapore so that they go on to pursue careers in STEM," said Boeing Southeast Asia president Ralph Boyce. NASA and the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum have collaborated in Above and Beyond, which has been produced by Evergreen Exhibitions.

 


After the event's premiere in the U.S., Singapore is the first southeast Asian venue for the traveling exhibition that will visit major science centers and air-and-space museums in multiple countries. Admission to Above and Beyond is free, but standard admission charges apply at the Science Centre.

'Above and Beyond' Showcases Aerospace Innovation

The exhibit is intended to encourage interest in the STEM fields.

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