I was told that I would be writing a "Blog". Whatever that was, what was more interesting was this strange machine that I am writing on. By hitting certain buttons, certain functions occur. I can't really explain except that we are in the Scheitlin household-- where the strange and unnatural occur.
As I was meandering down the hallway, by happenstance I entered into the room. What room is this you ask? The infamous Room 266. Coats-Haan's room. Both confused and dazzled by the spectacles hanging form the ceiling I went on to find my seat in the back of the classroom. How, you may ask, did I choose this seat? The answer is simple. I did not. Well, I kind of did. Through some divine intervention I felt a calling to the seat in the back of the room.
Unaware of where I really was. I quickly glanced at the whiteboard. It said " *check* Kinematics Problems 3 and Fly model planes". Remarkably, that is exactly what happened this fateful day. Some how, this board had the knowledge of the future. How in the world could this be?
Anyways, magical boards aside, we proceeded to do all of the board's predictions-- down to the letter. It was quite an interesting experience. After checking the kinematics problems, which of course, I got all right, we proceeded to fly these strange contraptions called "model planes". Like birds, they somehow were able to navigate the air without falling. How in the world was this possible? This seems to be against all laws of physics. Don't we frightened young one, this was no black magic. Instead, this was Bernoulli's principle in action. As I gazed upon my beautiful flying machine, I wondered if one day humans could also fly in one of these contraptions. They were a bit small though. However, I could not keep my eyes off of this one particular flying machine. Sporting, colorful stripes on both wings, hearts on the "elevator", and colorful bursts all around it, this plane was, as many young ones call nowadays, "sexy". Not knowing it at the time, it was apparently the handiwork of none other than Farah Hussain. Thank you Farah, for gracing my presence with such a beautiful piece of aeronautical engineering.
I watched my plane fly for a good second and a half. When gazing down, however, I had noticed that in my hand I held a "stopwatch". Another interesting contraption that seemed to work through black magic. It kept the time with extreme accuracy and was filled with a moving numbers-- strange but true. With these, we measured the time it took for the flying machines to fall to their DEATH. With the time, it took to fall, we divided that by the total distance traveled. This, gave us something called "Average speed". The easy way to calculate these strange numbers was to simply insert the distance and time into the mystical device known to many as a "calculator" and use strange buttons depicting the numbers and arithmetic functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division etc. With that, our exciting day was almost over. However, we still needed to complete a crucial part of this strange lab. By using papers with adhesive ends, we attached these strange papers to certain parts of the flying machine in order to see how it affected three things, Yaw, Pitch, and Roll. We collected our data, filled in the worksheet, turned it in and proceeded to lounge around back in Room 266. Coats-Haan then went on to speak about some strange machine called a "particle accelerator" that seemed to break the laws of physics. Cute, isn't it?
Question of the Day:
Which control surface controls which axis of motion on your plane?
Answer:
Yaw- Rudder
Roll- Elevator
Pitch- Ailerons
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