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By Miranda Hope
Special to the Rappahannock News
We all want our children to soar. Well, on Dec. 4. 2001 Hearthstone School took a trip to Front Royal Airport. Retired pilots Jan Scott and Frank Lamm took the students up to 3.500 feet in Cessna 310S and SF25 C Falkes. They cut the engines and let the students fly.
For several of the students, it was their first time in a plane. Seventh grader Nicole Sutphin said, “When the plane took off, it was like a hot rod." Anna Oesher, also a seventh grade said, “Looking from above, the fields, looked like a quilt.” Adam Disbrow, a tenth grader said. “You can’t see behind you. It felt like you were suspended in the air.” Gordon Branchaud, another tenth grader added, “Once you get used to it, it feels like complete freedom.” Adam agreed: “That’s what I loved. There was no motor and I was driving for 15 minutes.” Sixth grader Alex Gibson said, “It was like I was on top of the world.”
The field trip was a part of their fall science classes. Seventh grader JL Gardner explained the physics of flight: “Air comes at the wing. The air that goes down, has a shorter distance to travel and goes slower. The air above goes faster, which creates lift.” Dylan Weber, a tenth grader said, “The glide ratio was about 30 over 1 - for every 30 feet horizontal, you drop one foot vertical.”
The students were fascinat
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