A hands-on rudder, wing, and fuselage experience

HAYDEN — Latitude Aviation owners Jeff and Anny Fouche brought science, fun, and flight together Monday by hosting 120 of their daughter Kyndall’s closest friends for a field trip. The Ramsey Magnet School of Science first-graders had been studying weather and air, said teacher Kathy Jones. As part of their unit, the Ramsey students had done Google expeditions aboard aircraft carriers and flight lines using virtual reality goggles, said teacher Clarissa Jackson. However, as teacher Sumer Comfort said, the field trip to see and feel real airplanes added something to the curriculum that the magnet school couldn’t offer on its own. “We offer them hands-on in the classroom, but this makes it real to them,” she said.