My trip to Ashburton to visit the Ashburton Museum

I visited the Ashburton museum to see the types of planes that are show cased there. I travelled with the "Young Eagles" club. This club is situated in Christchurch. It encourages young people to learn how to fly planes. We do not actually learn to use the controls until we are thirteen. If you keep practising you can receive your full licence when you are seventeen years old. In the mean time before you are thirteen, we fly to different places to learn more about planes.

At the museum we saw the first glider that ever flew in NZ. The glider flew a really long distance. We also saw this really cool plane which had flown in WW2. The owners cut the nose to make the plane shorter. They also changed the wings.

The plane I flew in entered Ashburton Airport. It was a Piper. I have a certificate for being a "Royal Member of the Young Eagles" At the back of the certificate you can record your flights where you have flown.

When I am older, I would like to be a pilot. I wish to pilot passenger planes.

Kevin Vermeer