Working with Fire Burns Up and our longtime fabrication partner Juiceworks, I helped create a flight simulator for the Red Lake Regional Heritage Centre. The exhibit connects to Red Lake’s unusual history as home to the world’s busiest airport in 1937 and shows how aviation helped open up remote parts of Northern Canada.
Visitors sit inside a physical cockpit with working flight controls and custom hardware, then choose between a Microsoft Flight Simulator bush trip and a video presentation. Flying over the surrounding landscape gives visitors a much better sense of the scale, isolation and importance of aviation to northern communities.
