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Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:17 pm**

We went on a field trip today. When your teacher is a flying nut, where do you go for a field trip? The airport, of course!

Excuse for going? Well, we have the Unmanned Communications Station (ILS Shelters), Runway lighting, Towers, Hangar Construction & Grounding Techniques!

This is my Sophomore Electrical class touring Alpha One Flight Services here at Plymouth, MA Municipal Airport:

The kids really liked seeing all the planes! We also dropped in on the Massachusetts State Police Air Wing!

...and the chopper copper giving us the rundown on the cool little Eurocopters we got here!

The kids said that it was the BEST field trip they ever had and really liked riding in the yellow limo down the taxiways and around the field!

What a great way to start Thanksgiving vacation! I suppose we could have gone to Plimoth Plantation... but this was WAAAAAY BETTAH!

CJ

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 9:57 pm**

The kid on the left (top picture) looked like he was having a ball. NOT!

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:00 pm**

HA! He always looks like that!

CJ

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:24 pm**

those r some good lookin students u got there .. wish they were at my school lol

<3, your niece

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:32 pm**

great idea for a field trip CJ! looks like a fun day.

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:32 pm**

And the 3rd kid from the left (top pic) looks like he is smoking. Just kidding, that would be a cool field trip. Did you ever think about making Young Eagles out of them?

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:47 am**

Next time do we get an invite?

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:58 am**

Very cool. Giving new people exposure to aviation is so important. If because of that field trip you were able to get just one of your students even the least bit excited about aviation, it was worth it. Not counting the satisfaction I'm sure you got out of it.

Nice

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:43 am**

that's so true will! i had my 11 year old cousin come over to hang with me this past saturday. he has had his mind set on being a professional basketball player when he grows up for a long time now. well, we hung out at the airport most of the day, and played microsoft flight sim '04 back at home. without me even asking or saying anything to him, he told his mom when she came to pick him up, that he might want to be a pilot when he grows up!

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:00 am**

thats what i'm talkn bout - priceless

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:07 pm**

jim_geo wrote:The kid on the left (top picture) looked like he was having a ball. NOT!

Nah, he's just got that whole teenage "bored and disinterested" thing going on. It's not cool to admit that you're having fun at a school function!

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