Friday Show n Tell - October 24th

Visit Mrs. Mary for Friday Show n Tell!!

I got to go on a field trip the other day. It was at an airport and there were all kinds of airplanes you could see and go in. I liked checking out all the controls.

I got buckled in the bucket seat of an Army helicopter.

I met a pilot from Missionary Flights International and got to go in a DC-3 they use. The DC-3 is pointed up at a sharp angle so it was hard to walk in. I almost slipped and fell. They take missionaries and supplies to Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They also receive mail for the missionaries and take it to them.

I also met some Tuskegee Airmen. You can read more about them on this website and on this website. The man on the left was a mechanic during World War II and flew in the Korean War and Vietnam War. The man on the right was an instructor for the Tuskegee Airmen. They talked to me for a long time.

Friday Show n Tell - October 3

Visit Raising 4 Godly Men for Show n Tell Friday.

I went on my first field trip of the school year last weekend. We got to go to Kennedy Space Center. I have been before but we got to see some things this time that we didn't have time for before. It's a big place!

My brother really liked the Robot Scouts show. He loves robots. I had been before and I thought he would like it. It helps you to learn what role robots play in exploring space.

This is a cool spinning ball with water. It has constellations on it.

These next two pictures are the vehicle assembly building. The second one shows the doors open and that was a special sight. We were there at just the right time.

Here is a space shuttle main engine. It is huge!

Next is a crawler. It is what transports the space shuttles to their launch pads. If I remember right they burn 40 gallons of fuel per minute and it takes about 7 hours to get a shuttle to the launch pad.

We also went to the Astronaut Hall of Fame. There you can see the actual Apollo 14 Command Module that went into space!

This is yo-yo that got taken into space. I thought this was pretty funny.

Here is some space food that the astronauts eat. At the bottom left is scrambled eggs. I thought they looked gross. Right below the tray in the middle is some M&M's. I think that would be the only thing I would eat!