Kea and Tui

In a forest deep in the centre of the South Island of New Zealand, there lived a Tui and a Kea. Tui was a beautiful show off who had marvelous wings. Kea was a cheeky bugger that loves stealing things especially when they are valuable and shiny. Kea recently broke one of his wings. One day Kea decided to search for something shiny to complete his great nest and his best friend Tui came along.

After searching for hours they decided to conclude their quest. Until Tui remembered the creek, “lets go,” he wailed Kea wasn't too sure but he went along with it. When they saw the creek a gulp of saliva went down Tui’s throat, stunned he was about to let out a sentence when Kea yelled “what, scared of a little height?” when out of the corner of his eye Kea spots a shiny bolt stuck into a branch. Kea pulled hard and eventually it comes free but at the same time down falls the tree. A chain reaction begins, the tree falls then the landscape starts falling suddenly they are on the run.

“Run Kea run!” calls Tui above. “Ohh na,” replies Kea. Suddenly Tui noticed a tree this was an old one too then a crack! It was going to hit Kea and he knew it. Tui swooped down and before he knew it he was out, Tui had totally misjudged it, he was falling.

Kea felt a tingle in his wing… It was healed Kea gave a slight smirk, he spread his wings and off he was he grasped onto Tui and took him home where he thinks he will be a hero. Well he thought wrong, Tui did not remember anything prior to that day. When he woke up he stood and cascading to the ground was a silver bolt. Kea let out a scream “YIPEE” it was his bolt.

CTC Aviation Day Out

All the students find a seat in the large room, Chris was about to give us a fascinating fact when I spot an astonishing sight through the corner of my eye a real plane motor. Chris now exclaimed how a plane flies, the wings on a plane  are curved in  such a way that air moves faster on the top and moves slower on the bottom which creates lift. He also talked to us about the parts on a plane. Then Miss Woulfe did a draw of two groups the first three names got to go on the first flight and the second three will go on the second flight my name was drawn on the second group.

Now the long and painful wait was over it was time for the flight simulator Kaleb and I were third. We had successfully completed four barrel rolls and so for amusement we deliberately crashed the simulator that was our turn. Several more pairs had a go, Kaleb and I were just about to go when the pilot came into the room  and announced he would take another flight out around raglan and the wind turbines. Adrenaline and excitement flowed through my body thinking about a real flight.

Slowly we walk over to the plane area, excitedly I step onto the  aircraft. The pilot showed us puke bags and some funky looking headsets. While we were warming up the engine lots of transmits came through the radio and the speakers in our head phones. Then it was time to take off, we rapidly drove in the direction of the fence when we lifted off the ground off we went being in the air was the most pleasant feeling in the world, we saw the waikato river, Hamilton lake, raglan harbor and finally the wind turbines it started to get ruff and the plain bumped and wobbled  a bit and back we went. The runway was right ahead and we started to go down, this was not the most pleasant feeling, in fact this was quite the opposite. We landed safely got out and went back to the simulator.