Carolinas Aviation Museum Group 1

Jarrett Jefferson, Stanna Nguyen, Nisarg Patel

Lynn M. Raymond
UWRT 1102-014
February 10, 2016
Carolinas Aviation Museums Semester Long Proposal
The Carolinas Aviation Museum originally started as a small airport due to the Works
Progress Administration in the Great Depression. Over time, the airport deteriorated and it was
going to be demolished. However, Floyd and Lois Wilson intended to save the original hangar
and it soon became the Carolinas Aviation Museum. The Carolinas Aviation Museum is a
museum that displays various aircrafts that existed throughout history. The museum exists to
educate generations on the history aircrafts and hopefully inspire youth to take an interest in
aircrafts. We intend to dig deeper into the impact that the Carolinas Aviation Museum has on
North Carolina, cover the history of the museum and how the museum contributes to Charlotte
financially and educationally.
When we were given the assignment to research a Charlotte Metropolitan area with
history, we agreed on studying the Carolinas Aviation Museum. Afterwards, we outlined who
would research each part and which parts of the proposal each member should write on February
2nd. Then we agreed to have the proposal finished a week before it was due to have enough time
to edit and finalize it. By February 16th, we intend to come up with interview questions and
contact the person we would like to interview. On April 19th, we hope to finish the presentation
and check whether everything is working properly. Finally, we will present the project on finals
week.
The platform we will use to present our project is called Emaze. It is similar to Prezi as
it is a platform to create a presentation with a wide range of templates and designs. It is also
easily accessible to our members as long as they have internet access. Our members can also
access it at the same time, making it convenient to work together. We intend to compile the
information we have separately gathered along with several pictures of the Carolinas Aviation
Museum to properly give the audience a visual of what the museum has to offer. In order to get a
large variety of pictures, some of our members intend to visit the museum itself. We will
incorporate linguistic, visual, aural, spatial, and gestural in our presentation. To do so, we will
add videos and pictures to the Emaze presentation, then speak about it with the use of gestures.
Our proposed plan is very effective for our topic because there will be multitude of
information on our topic such as the history, employment, or evolution of the museum.
Therefore, we will need an organized plan to make certain that everyone in our group knows
their research boundaries. This will help keep everyone in our group on track with each other.
Our audience should care about this topic, because it pertains to the history of Charlotte and how
Charlotte has changed throughout the years. There are also plenty of interesting facts about the

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Carolinas Aviation Museum. Even if you dislike planes or flying on them, you will find interest
in it and you will get an urge to learn more about it.
You might wonder how exactly the museum runs its facility, even though it is a non-profit
organization. The answer is tourism. We will look into a number of tourists per year and how
they affect not only the museum, but the city of Charlotte as well. We will also explore how
much revenue the museum brings into the city of Charlotte and how that money is spent. A good
portion of our time will be spent in understanding the history and importance the museum has on
Charlotte. In addition to that, we are researching the reason as to why the name has been changed
multiple times and how the museum as changed along with it. Also, the museum is a fairly large
facility, so we will look into the employees salary, how many employees work there, and how
many are needed to manage the facility. These are some of the question we will focus our time
on during our research. We anticipate that the research will only deepen our interest in the topic.
In conclusion, we will sum up our research and put together a well-developed presentation that
will show our knowledge regarding the Carolinas Aviation Museum.