The weeklong program encourages aviation careers and includes tours of Metropolitan and Detroit City Airports and Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
Students also learn about aviation history, flight theory, navigation and weather.
Detroit City Airport. The students will have lunch prepared by fire fighters at the City Airport fire station at noon. On tap for Friday, beginning at 9 a.m., is a tour of the Tuskegee Airman Museum at Historic Fort Wayne, followed by a model glider-flying contest and demonstration of model rockets on the fort grounds. The Ace Academy program was started by the Federal Aviation Administration. In Detroit the program is coordinated by Wayne State s Academic College Enrichment Services Department and jointly sponsored by WSU, the BPA, Tuskegee Airmen, National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees and the Organization of Black Airline Pilots.