The interior climbing passages lead young aviators to the cockpit, where they can radio the control tower, to the galley where they can prepare lunch and to the cabin area furnished with real United Parcel Service airline seats. This one has a sliding board out the back that descends to the cargo area, where young cargo loaders can spin tubes filled with small surprises. They may venture in to sit and look at books, listen to music or work a puzzle. Babies creep, kick and crawl in this padded moonscape designed just for them. When they come back to earth, visitors may be ready to explore the material world of hard hats, dump trucks and rocks.
Young workers don hard hats and tool belts as they experiment with fulcrums, pulleys and magnets.
The water table is just the right height for kids and features several levels for the circulating water, a place to dam it up and toys ranging from boats to fish. Youngsters like to use funnels, sieves, sponges, strainers and buckets to explore the properties of water. Rubber raincoats are provided to keep the fun from getting everyone too soggy. Near the water table, a specially engineered distribution system is displayed with clear plastic pipes winding their way up the wall. Opening and closing a series of valves and drains, which set whistles and pinwheels into action, visitors can make the water flow up the pipes on the wall.