Soaring fascination with planes

Quid pro quo: Air Scouts cleaning an old airplane at the Royal Malaysian Air Force Museum in Sungai Besi in 2015 in return for the training they received.

When Teh Nur Shafiqah Ab Samad enrolled in an aircraft engineering technology course at a local university, the 22-year-old soon found herself volunteering to teach kindergarten children about the main parts of aircraft and marshalling signals.

Her reason for wanting to be part of the junior aviators programme, run by the Air Scout unit at her university, was fairly straightforward — she wanted to inspire more young people to pursue careers in the field of aviation.