Brazil's Catavento children's museum in São Paulo this month inaugurated an Embraer exhibit that includes material donated to the permanent archive. “We hope to interest kids in a career in aviation. We need qualified labor, and we want to plant a seed,” an Embraer spokesman explained to AIN.

Interactive exhibits include an aircraft model that responds to yoke and rudder pedal inputs, and a control panel where labeled buttons illuminate corresponding dials. Teenagers were already taking selfies in a full-size Bandeirante cross-section, with wiring and other parts visible through acrylic panels.

Innovation was the theme of speeches by the museum director and by Nelson Salgado, Embraer v-p of institutional affairs and sustainability, who described the development of the commercial version of the Bandeirante. “A consulting firm produced a list of 1,000 changes needed to adapt the military design, and [Embraer founder Ozires Silva] said, 'That's all? Where do we start?'”

The temporary exhibit runs through February, but some of the materials, such as the aircraft model, were donated to the museum. Other materials will be returned, such as a test pilot's helmet that will continue to be used in fight operations.