Our trip to the Aviation Museum!

We had a great day at the Aviation Museum today!

Our tour guide's name was Steve. Here we are learning all about the Vickers Vedette! This plane was used to help map out the parts of Canada that had yet to be represented on a map.

 We had the chance to sit on an Air Canada passenger plane. The inside of this plane looks very different to the planes we fly in today.

 Now we are learning about of one of Canada's fighter jets used during the Cold War.

Here are the last 2 planes of our tour. There are so many different types of airplanes here!

Off to school, now! Chris Without a Hat taught us all about flight. We learned the four forces of flight and about a man - Daniel Bernoulli - who explained how the difference between high and low pressure create lift.

Now we are learning about the 3 control surfaces of an airplane; 

the ailerons, the elevator and the rudder.

 Time to play in the SkyWays centre!

Here we are completing the Design-iacs part of our afternoon. We worked in teams to plan, design and build an airplane out of recyclable materials.

We needed to think about what type of airplane we wanted to build and had to include as many features of the plane as possible. And we only had 15 minutes to complete it!

After our time was up, Christ Without a Hat scored each one of our creations out of 4. He tried to guess what airplane we built and then, after counting down from 5-0, he smashed our creations against the wall! Ahhh!

We had a fun day and learned a lot! Be sure to ask us about our favourite part of the trip!