England, Fleet Air Museum, Cheddar Gorge, Wales

Submitted by michael on Fri, 2006-01-20 12:40.

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This morning we went to a British Royal Air Museum. It was called the Fleet Air Museum. My dad and I saw a Concorde. For the people that don’t know what a Concorde is, it’s a supersonic aircraft that reaches speeds up to Mach2. It looks big, but it is the tiniest aircraft ever. It doesn’t use the jets that you see on normal aircraft. It uses big beautiful engines called Rolls Royce Olympus. I am also going to tell you about another aircraft that I really liked. It is a new kind of plane. It just came out a while ago, but there’s a new version coming out this year. It uses air to lift it up and then uses more air to get it going and then it switches to jets. What I got to do was play a game where there was a circle, and a pole in the middle, a beam across and I got to fly a mini aircraft that looked just like it.

Then we drove to Cheddar Gorge. It is the place where they invented Cheddar cheese. Then we drove on to our next Bed & Breakfast which was a farm in Wales.

The Henlley Farm was great. It had 10 cows, 129 sheep, and 3 pigs and a beautiful Welsh Mountain Pony named Tom Pepper. I got to go out and pet him. He was a very, very nice pony. I also got to see two new lambs and a calf that was five days old.

Michael