This year has started out to be a great one! A lot has been happening in the past few weeks, like the Fordell swimming sports and camp is coming up fast as well. Also, I am very exited to be part of the sailing regatta that is on the 12th of April. Looking forward to other things in store for us.

Leadership Camp

on ... we went to Green Pastures and had leadership camp, it was a lot of fun, we all hope that this will happen again. 

Last night, all the crew were getting ready for one big night at the Fordell hall for the first ever in Fordell school history, we put on a fantastic play with most of the school in it. The teachers were very proud of there efforts.  

may 21, 1927

 

Flight to victory!

 

Flying fool!

Yesterday Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly solo on a transatlantic flight, from New York to Paris. Many questioned if he could successfully make the flight across the Atlantic.

Funding had to be made, so with the help of sponsors who helped to design the plane, it was named the Spirit of St. Louis. The structure of the plane single design wing caused many people to query about his flight across the Atlantic.

Yesterday the Spirit of St. Louis attempted at least 4 times to get into the air. Lindbergh flew over Cape Cod and Nova Scotia reaching the ocean by sun set.

Fog thickened in the night sky. Sleet formed and he was suffering from drowsiness, almost reaching only 10 feet from the waves!

After at least 33 hours, saw a fishing boat that gave him a sign that he was near land.

At least 100,000 people came to celebrate his successful journey. As he returned we were lucky enough to talk to the man himself. “I saw the lights of Paris a little before 10pm and a few minutes later I was circling the Eiffel tower at an altitude of about four thousand feet.

He has been a huge achievement in the flying world and he will be touring around the world. He has an amazing flight in front of him!

 

All over the show!

In the papers Raymond Orteig, a hotel owner in New York offered a grand prize that has been spread all over the world with a prize of $25,000 to the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris. For the first attempt four men had died and three were seriously injured and two others went missing, so the prize is still remaining the same. Until Now!     

 

By: Nikita Weitekamp                                    

 

Rockets

  The first rocket device was planned around 100B.C by a Greek named ‘’hero,’’ of Alexandria. This device was called an aeolipile.

It consisted of a sphere mounted on a water kettle. The fire beneath the kettle turned into steam. This then travelled through the pipes to the sphere and through two L-shapes pipes that cause the sphere to rotate.

When rockets as we know them were first invented is not known. But the first true rockets were used, was the year 1232. It is believed that the Chinese had a basic rocket like this before. At this time the Chinese were at war with the Mongols. During one of these battles the battle of kai-keng the Chinese managed to defend themselves using arrows “arrows of flying fire” these fire arrows were a simple of a solid-propellant rocket. A rocket, capped at one end. The other end was left open and the tube was attached to a stick. When it was done the rapid burning of the power produced fire smoke and gas. That escaped, the stick acted as a guiding system that kept the rocket heading in the right direction so their effects on the Mongols was probably huge!

Today’s rockets are remarkable collections they are natural outgrowths of thousands of years of experiments and research on rockets. And early NASA missions used rockets build by the military theses rockets are used to launch satellites. I think it’s significant because it’s a great way to into space and will be a huge attachment to the world today.

   

Hello again, On Saturday I went for a horse ride on my pony. Her name is Kirema and I had a really awesome ride. Say yes if you have ridden a horse on my comments.

Snow

Snow IS ICING sugar spread all over the horizon 

Snow is white wool scattered on the grass

Snow is a soft blanket

Snow is crumbling sugar over chocolate cake

Snow is a muffler bringing silence to the world