Bombs Away!!!
Wow, was that fun! I have always wanted to learn to fly a plane and yesterday I had a fantastic experience driving one! I've flown radio control planes, but never have been in a small plane before. This was a great experience and I had so much fun driving the thing a bit in the air!
We started out by preparing 10 Twinkies with 5' long streamers to slow them down as they are dropped from the plane.
Then we headed to the airport to fly in the pilot's club's Cessna 152.
We took off and headed towards Benjamin. Luckily, we had scouted out the way it looks from the air with Google Earth and were ready for the way the terrain looked from the sky. My wife and two of my kids were standing in the pasture waiting for the Twinkies to arrive. We took the first pass from North to South to make sure we were ready, then we began to drop the Twinkies on the next pass.
And we dropped them! The kids had a great time, and I had a blast being in the small plane. What a great way to fly around. It's a lot like riding a motorcycle...there's enough to concentrate on that you can do it with tuning everything else out and get some good thinking done.
We started out by preparing 10 Twinkies with 5' long streamers to slow them down as they are dropped from the plane.
Then we headed to the airport to fly in the pilot's club's Cessna 152.
We took off and headed towards Benjamin. Luckily, we had scouted out the way it looks from the air with Google Earth and were ready for the way the terrain looked from the sky. My wife and two of my kids were standing in the pasture waiting for the Twinkies to arrive. We took the first pass from North to South to make sure we were ready, then we began to drop the Twinkies on the next pass.
And we dropped them! The kids had a great time, and I had a blast being in the small plane. What a great way to fly around. It's a lot like riding a motorcycle...there's enough to concentrate on that you can do it with tuning everything else out and get some good thinking done.
posted by Pastor Tom at 9:40 PM
3 Comments:
Tom-Tom,
What was your reasoning for dropping Twinkies from the sky? My hubby had a different experience with a friend who created a 'missile' out of a 10# bag of flour. They put wings, fins, and a nose-cone on it, then scoped out, what appeared to be an empty farmer's field. The sound it made was pretty realistic, as it fell from the sky. The impact it made, as well as the flour dust cloud, was a sight to behold. Imagine a truly white mushroom cloud and a fine (At the minimum!) white layer of dust on everything within a 100 feet. Way cool, to say the least!
Take care and God bless!
Sal-Sal
The flour bag sounds like a TON of fun!
I went with Twinkies because my buddy the pilot wanted to do Twinkie's for his boy's birthday on Saturday and our excuse for flying was a demo run dropping them on my kids.
Sounds fun all around! It sounds like it was safe and rewarding for those on the ground. The flour bag could be dangerous if someone was TOO curious!
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