News2day came to our school

By Matilda

News2day came to our school on Monday 21st of April. They asked us lots of questions about our plane project and about the paper mache planes that we made. They inter viewed five people and they were *****,****,*****,****** and *****. **** talked about the blog that we have set-up on the internet. *** talked about the Wright Brothers and his granny. ****** also talked about the Wright Brothers and ***** talked about e-mailing people like John Thompson and Ian. They videoed us all playing the tin whistle and we did that twice.At the end we brought out our paper mache planes and we pretended to fly them and we had to do that a few times aswell. We had a lot of fun.

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Our trip to Shannon by Batman

On Tuesday we went to Shannon Airport hangar to see an Aer Lingus plane.It took us two hours to get there and it was worth it. The plane we saw was Aer Lingus' biggest plane.Our tour guide and engineer Dennis brought us into the plane and we all got to sit in first class seats and go into the cockpit. The seats had televisions in them and when we got out of the plane we asked Dennis questions and I asked him how heavy is the plane and just one engine and he said the plane is eighty tonnes empty and the engine is about five or six tonnes. The planes fuel is called kerosene and they would use about thirty tonnes of that doing a transatlantic flight. When we were leaving Shannon,Dennis gave us a box with magazines and headphones.
Then we spend another forty five minutes on the bus going to Foynes Museum of flying boats. Joan, our tourguide, showed us a video of old planes and there was a double decker plane called the Mayo Composite. We also got into a life size replica of the Yankee Clipper. Joan showed us two morse code readers and transmitter. Then we went to Cahir for something to eat before we came home.