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    Science field trips and writing stories: a modern combination

    • 14 October 2017
    • Author: Nick Wake: Marketing Director, iFLY UK

    In a recent article, Mike Hollinshead highlighted that the key to getting young people interested in pursuing a career in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) is to help them learn through experience. In the United States, the iFLY champion doing exactly this, is Christina Soontorvant.

    Welcome to the stage: Virtual Skydive

    • 21 October 2017
    • Author: Nick Wake: Marketing Director, iFLY UK

    According to Mark Bridge, writing in the Times recently, virtual reality headsets could become the opera glasses of the 21st century, allowing concert goers at the back of the auditorium, with the help of a VR (virtual reality) headset, to take a front row seat, or even jump on stage with the band!

    Record Breaker!

    • 29 May 2018
    • Author: Nick Wake: Marketing Director, iFLY UK

    "102 year old Eva Lewis proves that age should never be a barrier. Last Sunday the team at iFLY Milton Keynes were thrilled to welcome their oldest ever flyer to the wind tunnel."

    The thrill of opening a new tunnel

    • 25 July 2018
    • Author: Trevor Thompson: iFLY executive responsible for new tunnel openings

    Opening tunnels requires a lot of flexibility. No location has the same requirements. When we can move the items into the building varies by each region and in the US, buy county. Flexibility and communication with all the companies that deliver and install the items, is vital.