Cloud Nine pt3: The Flight

ENJOY!! More to come. =)

The controls

Mom taking a picture of me in the pilot's seat

Ready to taxi out to the runway

open window

our backseat passenger :)

Ready for take off

I didn't take pictures while I took off.. ;)

In the air 

Aerial view

beautiful view

Co-pilot/flight instructor instructor/Bob :)

tiny silos!

tiny everything

lake

flying the plane! :D

Bob and I flying the plane! :D

dials and meters (soooo cool) 

see the shadows of the clouds!?

I love all the colors and shapes

tiny barn :D

another shot from under the wing

more cloud shadows

the airport is the little white building with the long runway in front

so cool 

another cessna landing (tiny white plane just past the thick white lines on the runway)

circling for landing

the straight "road" is a train track 

next to the runway

I love the tracks in the fields!

coming in for landing

closer....

...closer.......

the eagle has landed.

back to the airport

Next I'll post the pictures from when I got off the plane (plus some that mom took), back at camp and then throughout the next week or so I'll post my favorite aerial pictures individually. =)

Thanks for stopping by! :D

~Em

Cloud Nine pt2: The Airport

I attended 4-H Aerospace Camp last Thursday, in Madisonville KY. IT WAS AMAZING!!!!! Usually it's a two to three day camp but because so many students signed up, they had to make it one day. I guess that's a good problem to have! :D


Instead of writing out a whole bunch of commentary, I'll just tell the story in pictures and include a few captions. A picture is worth a thousand words anyway, right?

After orientation and a brief lesson on plane navigation at the Madisonville elementary school, we went to the Madisonville Municipal Airport.

I can't remember his name... but 'the guy in the orange shirt' is an Air Traffic Controller (ATC), he works at the Cincinnati airport in OH. He talked to us about everything that goes on at an airport and in the air! It was so neat! There's so much work that goes into controlling air traffic!
[I'm the one in the foreground]

It's so cool that I understand this. :D 

Brochures, wooden airplane, pen and pencil. What more do you need? Oh yeah, I got a t.shirt, too! :D

Mr. Saylor telling us about twin engine planes and how much more difficult they are to learn to fly than single engine planes.

One Cessna taking off and another waiting it's turn to taxi out onto the runway. 

Mom taking a picture of me taking a picture :D 

This is the picture she got when I took the picture above :D

We got to peek inside the twin engine plane. It had a lot more controls than a single engine plane! 

Mr. Pearson was there taking photos, it was great to see him again! It's always nice when you're not the only photographer ;D

The planes in Hangar B 

The signs on Hangar B :)

The only other girl in my group was nervous about going up in a plane, but absolutely loved it. =) That's her flying up there. :D

Radio and computer at the front desk in the airport 

Cessnas waiting to be flown

Dad taking pictures of the twin engine Cessna :D He got some really cool shots!

Laiken and me (the only girls in our group;) We had so much fun! We parted, saying "See you next year!!"

Keep your eyes open for part three and four! Aerial photos next!


~Em =)