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2008 Fall
Session - Flight Club Class |
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| Flight Club is one of our Wednesday classes where the kids get together each week and build something new that takes flight. Over the 6 weeks we have scheduled the kids will build paper airplanes, air powered (blow through a straw) paper rockets, balsa wood airplanes, foam air planes and kites. The last week the kids get to choose from the previous classes to decide what they liked best and we build that! | ||||||
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I never got pictures from the paper airplane day, but here the kids are working on their balsa gliders. They also built rubber band powered planes this day | ||||
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Harder than heck trying to take indoor pictures of moving objects... | |||||
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They tried several launching techniques as well as different wing positions to see how the planes would react. It was a great learning experience and the kids had a ball! | |||||
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A good toss and a lucky shot from my camera! | |||||
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A 4 way airplane toss! If you look close, I got all 4 planes in the air! | |||||
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On to foam Space Shuttles! The nice thing about these (and the balsa planes) is that we get to spend more time flying than building, which is what the kids really want anyway :) | |||||
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Creativity comes in to play when I explain to the kids that they don't have to match the kit picture when putting on the decals. "Do whatever you want" I encouraged them. | |||||
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Never getting into any of the shots I brought my camera remote control today and snuck over while they were working. | |||||
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It took a bit of a knack to get these to fly by tossing them. After a few attempts they started using the catapult launcher that comes with the kit. | |||||
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Much faster and acrobatic with the catapult launcher! | |||||
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4 of the kids pose for a pre-launch photo | |||||
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And away they go! What a hoot! | |||||
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Shuttles EVERYWHERE! | |||||
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This week (the last week) was kites. We had to fly in the large parking lot as the football team was using the field. The kids had a ball and said the kites were the best part of the class. | |||||
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This boy had a problem getting good lift till I directed him to move away from the building. One boy got his kite up well over 100 feet and was thrilled! Wouldn't you know it, my camera batteries died after this picture... bummer! | |||||
| That's it for Flight Club! Hopefully we will have as much fun the next time we offer this class (most likely in the Spring) | ||||||
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