Boeing 757 cockpit lands at EdVenture in Columbia

Columbia children’s museum, EdVenture, is getting a new look on the outside, thanks to a grant from NASA and the new exhibit “Flight.”

A Boeing 757 cockpit will be installed on the second-story outside wall overlooking the Columbia Canal, the museum announced.

Friday morning the cockpit will be hoisted into place with a crane and attached to the building with 20-foot steel beams in advance of the exhibit’s mid-July opening.

When the exhibit is complete, children will be able to sit in the pilot’s seat and look out of the cockpit, test their own wings in a windtunnel and fly in flight simulators.

IF YOU WANT TO GO:

When: 7 a.m., June 9, 2017

Where: EdVenture, 211 Gervais Street, Columbia, SC 29201

Boeing has three major South Carolina facilities, including a final assembly facility for the 787 Dreamliner and a plant that fabricates, assembles and installs systems for rear fuselage sections of the Boeing 787.

This story was originally published June 8, 2017 at 12:01 AM with the headline "Boeing 757 cockpit lands at EdVenture in Columbia."