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- Today I am so pleased to introduce to you
Mr. Paul Bark.
He is an expert on aircraft
and he is going to show and tell us all about the aircraft
that are here at Tamiami Airport.
- Nice to meet you, Penny.
Thank you very much and welcome boys and girls.
And today we're going to talk about aircraft.
Sound good?
- Yes. - Great.
This is a single engine prop plane.
It has a propellor, it has wings, it has landing gear,
it has a tail, and it has four seat inside.
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Okay, let's look at this jet airplane.
See, there's no engine on the front,
there's no engine on the nose, all right?
This is the door to get in,
but look back here, boys and girl,
that's a jet engine and that pushes the airplane forward
and makes it fly.
What kind of airplane is this?
- [Boy] It's a floatplane.
- A floatplane, - A floatplane.
- [Paul] You are right.
It's a floatplane.
It's an amphibious airplane.
It goes on land or water.
- You get to go inside. - Ladies first.
Okay, wanna climb up?
Very big step. - I like the plane.
- There you go.
Sit right in that seat right there.
This is called the yoke or the flight control, okay?
And this is what steers the airplane.
And it you wanna hold onto it,
here, reach forward and grab it, okay?
- [Penny] What is that called?
- [Boy] It's the steer, a yolk.
- A yolk. - Right, the yolk.
Turn to the right and look to your right when you turn.
Look to the right when you turn.
There you go, yeah, you turn right now.
Now turn left, turn the airplane left.
The airplane turns to the right and to the left.
If you pull it back, the airplane goes up.
You push it forward, the airplane goes down.
Let's go down, let's go down, push down.
- [All] Whoa.
- [Paul] Okay, pull back, going
- [All] Up.
- [Paul] Okay.
And over here in the middle, okay, is called the throttle.
Can you say throttle.
- [Carlo] A throtnum.
- [Paul] Throttle.
Just try it, you push it forward, what happens?
Airplane goes faster. - Faster.
- Right, 'cause as the engine goes faster.
What happens when you pull it back?
- [Girl] It slows.
- [Paul] Right, right.
- And Mr. Paul, what are these gauges?
- [Paul] These are gauges to tell you how fast you're going.
This is the airspeed, and this right here
is called the attitude indicator, and that tells you,
see those little wings?
It tells you if you're going level or if you're banking.
See how the blue sky is on top and the brown is the ground.
And this gauge over here is the altimeter.
It tells you how high you're going.
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- There's a helicopter.
- Yeah, let's go look at the the helicopter, come on.
- Wow.
- [Child] What is that red thing?
- Everybody needs to wear a headset
when you're flying a helicopter.
This way we can talk.
- Let's see if we can hear the control tower.
(man mumbling)
- Ready.
- Could you stop talking? - Ready to go?
Are you ready?
- No. - Yeah.
- This is a good way to communicate, right?
That's how they tell you the way you're gonna go.
- [Boy] I'm concentrating.
- Wow, airplanes need fuel, just like cars.
(engine humming)
(children exclaiming)
- And the pilot always must be
with the aircraft when they fuel it.
So I'm gonna be here with the fueling man
and we're gonna put fuel in.
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This red cap is where the fuel goes.
- Wow.
- You wanna see me fly a helicopter?
- [Penny And Children] Yes!
- I can't hear you.
- [Penny And Children] Yes!
- (laughing) All right.
- [Penny] Wooo!
(helicopter whirring) - Wow!
(children exclaiming)
(clapping) Hooray!
(helicopter whirring)
Whoa, he's moving horizontally, look at that.
It's moving side to side.
You see that?
Yeah, like that, you're right.
That's what he's doing.
Whoa, he's going vertically, look at that.
- [Child] He's going vertical.
- [Penny] Wow, he's going vertical.
- [Carlo] He's going vertically!
(child exclaims)
- [Penny] He's hovering.
(helicopter whirring)
He's hovering.
(helicopter whirring)
Ah.
(clapping) Hooray!
(clapping) Clap!
Hooray!
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we're at the Wings Over Miami Airport Museum.
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Children, this is Mr. Walter,
he is the director of the Wings of Miami Air Museum
and he's gonna show us
all the amazing aircraft that are here today.
- Hi kids, thanks for coming to the museum today.
We're really glad you're here.
This is a really special place
'cause we have a lot of really old airplanes.
And let's maybe walk around a little bit and take a look.
You see a lot of different signs on them like that star,
which means this is a Czechoslovakian airplane.
And if you look at these other airplanes,
you'll see other stars on them
which represent the American flag.
Now this is a glider.
- Look at that.
- This airplane does not have an engine,
it floats through the air
and it is pulled up by another airplane
and it's released and it floats down, back to earth.
- What kind of plane is that?
- [Carlo] Prop airplane.
- Right. - That's right.
- [Paul] Carlo, you're right.
- That's a prop airplane.
It has a very big propeller on it
and these were made over 70 years ago.
- What number is on the front of it?
- 100.
- 100. - You're right.
- [Penny] It is great.
- And you know why that has a number?
Because when they have a lot of airplanes,
you can tell 100 from 102, from 98.
Every airplane has a different number.
(grunting) Good man.
- [Penny] Thank you so much.
- [Walter] Oh, you're welcome.
Boy, you guys ask really good questions.
- [Penny] Isn't that cool?
Layla, what did you learn today?
- That helicopters need gas like cars.
- [Penny] That's right, helicopters and aircraft
need gas, just like cars do.
And how 'bout you, Carlo?
What did you learn today?
- [Carlo] How do you press buttons in the cockpit.
- [Penny] That's right,
you learned how to work in a cockpit.
- [Penny] And how 'bout you, Paul?
- What did I do?
- [Paul] Fly a helicopter.
- [Penny] He flew a helicopter for us today, didn't he?
What did the helicopter do?
What directions did it take, you guys?
- It took sideways, sideways, and then up and down.
And doing this.
- Hovering, right?
So when it goes up and down, what do we call that?
- Vertical.
- Vertical, very good.
When it goes side to side, what do we call that?
- [Penny And Children] Zontal.
- Horizontal, good, it flew horizontally.
What kind of things are at an airport?
- Airplanes and helicopters. - Airplanes.
- And jets.
- [Penny] Right, airplanes and helicopters and jets.
We saw a lot of those.
- And the prop planes.
- And a prop plane. - Right.
- [Penny] And what other kind of planes are there?
- I know. - Jet planes.
- [Penny] Jet planes.
- [Paul] What about that one that you--
- [Child] Passenger planes.
- [Penny] Passenger planes.
- [Paul] What about the one that goes in the water?
What was that?
- [Children] A floatplane.
- Right, right. - A floatplane.
Wow, that is terrific.
And what's at the museum?
- Helicopters.
- There's a helicopter
and there's a lot of older planes here
with great paint jobs.
Thanks, we had a great time visiting you today, Mr. Paul.
- Thank you very much,
I had a great time with you too, kids.
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