Have you ever
been in a bi-plane? Dad and I went today. It was amazing! It was a bi-plane on
floats called The Red Baron, like the
Red Baron (the flying legend)!
The plane was a Grumann G-164 Agcat with a Pratt and Whitney 450
HP engine. It was built in America in 1964 then it was imported to Australia in
1970. In Australia, it was converted
into a sea-plane, next to a two passenger aircraft! After that, it was renamed
a Grumann Sea-cat and it was even in a movie in 1996!
When
we took off you could feel wind pounding your face soooooo hard it almost hurt!
We couldn’t hear a thing up there so we wore head-sets and radios to talk and
to hear each other. From up there, you could see for miles and kilometers and
miles and kilometers! The pilot did a maneuver called a wing over, just for fun.
It is when you go sideways and pivot on your wing. It is a little breath-taking
the first time, but you get used to it and have fun with it!
