The other day one of the homeschool moms set up a field trip to tour the airport! Yes, we have a little airport in our small town. :) It’s for recreational use and for the crop dusters.
We got to sit down and hear all about flying rules and regulations for small planes, and then we got to see how the airplane worked. I think he said this was a restored plane built in 56’(?)…somewhere in there. It was really neat!
The kids were very interested and did a good job paying attention.
One of the boys got to go inside the cockpit and work the controls while the others stood outside to watch what happened on the plane when he pushed certain levers and such.
The little ones did get a little bored, but they happily played with the rocks in the shade of the wing. :)
Then we got to see the guy’s Ultralite. It is basically a seat (or two, like this one) strapped to a hang glider with a snow mobile engine attached! And he told us he has taken this thing up to 13,000 feet! Yikes!
He also told us his favorite thing to do is go out and find dust devils and let himself get spun around in them. Sounds like a good way to get air-sick. Haha :)
Once he gets up as high as he wants to go he shuts off the engine and just glides around. He said the longest he’s stayed up without turning the engine back on was five hours!
We ended the tour with him doing fly bys in his little plane. Very cool! The kids loved it!
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