Plane Run

Term Paper Title	Plane Run
# of Words	470
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.88

Plane Run

Creative Writing

�Flying W traffic requesting take-off clearance, runway one-niner.�  This was it. Today was going to be the day I take control of a real plane for the very first time.  It was a war, clear day in July and my dad signed me up for flying camp. My instructor had me put in 17 Rpm�s on the throttle and we were off.  Before I knew it, we were climbing rapidly.
As we climbed to about 2,000 feet every thing took on a whole new perspective.  The huge farms I had seen on the way had suddenly shrunk down to about the size of my backyard.  Then Cory, my instructor, asked me where I wanted to go.  Little did he know that in my mind I had a list of at least a hundred places I�d want to fly.  So I just said the first thing that came to mind, over my house.  I told him where I lived and he told me how to turn in that direction.  So I turned the yoke (steering wheel) and kicked in a little rudder and I went into the smoothest and sharpest turn ever.
As we approached the area of my town I realized how easy it is to navigate without even needing to know how to read an aeronautical map.  So I just followed 42 down to where Clover used ...

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