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May 6th This was our first week working and testing out things. We assigned jobs to all of the group members. Ari was assigned to get the R/C plane, Arshon was asssigned to get the flight simulator and Ben and Kevin was assigned to get the R/C Helicopter. We got three flight simulators and two of them did not work after they were downloaded. We therefore had to use the 2002 model to fly on. This has been used earlier by a team member and has been confirmed as an extremely good flight simulator. We got it from the library. The cover of it is shown below.
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Ari ordered the R/C plane after we researched and found a good one. He got it from Amazon.com for $35 which takes up most of our budget which is not a big deal because that is most of what we need to buy. We watched many videos to make sure that it is a quality flier and also read many reviews of previous buyers.. We kept researching while the rest of the team got accustomed to the flight simulator. Ari found many flights but they were on planes that are not on the flight simulator. We assigned Arshon the task of finding a way to get more planes and he should find out how to and tell everyone on Monday. Here is a picture of the jet that we bought plus a screenshot of us playing the simulator.

**__May 13th__**

This week, Arshon came up with the idea of going on a sight called simviation which is an open source database filled with downloadable planes that are specially created for the Microsoft flight simulator 2002 and has the planes that we need to add. We tried going on it at school but unfortunately it was blocked. We asked Mr. Mccloud and Mr. Smith and he said that we should write a letter that explains why we need to unblock the site so that he could send it to the administrators. We made the letter and sent it to him but they said that they possibly wouldn’t because of inappropriate advertising. We decided to go around that obstacle and use a plane that is similar in size engines and weight. That should work and is a good replacement. Here is a picture of the letter we sent to the administrator.

__**May 15th**__ Unfortunately, the district decided not to unblock our site because of inapropriate advertising material. This is very bad for us and made us to have to use a similar plane for the flight. We were also depending on Ben to bring in a R/C helicopter but his mom wouldn't let him for private reasons. We then assighned Kevin the task of buying the helicopter over the weekend and i am pretty sure that he will follow through and do it. The Airplane is planned to be here by monday. Our goal is to start screentoasting our flights by monday then start recreating on Tuesday on the R/C plane and hopefully, helicopter. Ari also downloaded a mac demo of another flight simulator called x-plane. here is a screnshot of Ben Flying.

May 18th Today Ari brought in the plane. Naturally we wanted to experiment with it first but Mr. Mccloud made us research a bit first. After research we decided to recreate American Airlines flight 191. It was a flight that took off and then one of its engines stopped working and it turned over and crashed into the ground. This was all because of bad maintenance. After we settled on that our goal was to find out what plane to use as a replacement for the DC-10. We don’t have that plane on the flight simulator so we decided to use the Boeing 777 instead because of it's similar capacities and size. The only problem with our selection is that it has two engines but not three like the DC-10. After that Ari took us outside and showed us how to fly the R/C plane which flew surprisingly well. Everyone got a turn at the controls then class was done. Our goal for this week is to find out how to recreate the flight. Below is a picture of flight 191 going down.

May 19th

Today three members of the group had a problem with another member so we talked with Mr. Mccloud and he resolved it. We then all got to work with our goal being to fly the R/C plane and make sure that everyone was comfortable with it. Unfortunately, during one of the trials, one of the propellers came off and we were required to fix it. When Ari fixed it, it still wouldn't fly so it was suggested to go to Mr. Melton because he was good with Aviation related objects. He saw that the propeller was on the wrong way and he flipped it around then it came back to normal flight. Ben was the camera man for the test trials and he did a very good job taking some of these pictures.

May 26th Today Mr. Mccloud was absent but we kept working on our project. We found out that Ben had ordered the R/C Helicopter from the internet and that it should come some time this week. We plan to use it for a helicopter crash that we have not decided on yet. We successfully tried simulating American Airlines flight 191 on the flight simulator and it actually worked. We had to use the Boeing 737 instead of the DC-10 because the DC-10 is not available on the simulator. We also went outside and tried to no success to recreate the flight on the R/C plane. On our 10th attempt, the aircraft hit the ground and split open again on the front and so we had to re glue it. We then spent the rest of the day waiting for it to dry. Our goal for tomorrow is to use screen toaster to record the Flight Simulator flight of 191 and post it to our video page on our Wiki. Below is a picture of the Helicopter that we are fortunately getting this week. It goes up, down, left, right, and sideways just like a real helicopter

May 29th

Today Ben came with the helicopter to class. Unfortunately, Ari was not there. The Group and I had gone outside and tried to fly the helicopter and it was vary hard to fly but there was not a lot of battery charge when we flew it and then we put it on the charger and tried to fly the helicopter. We then came inside and decided to take a video of the helicopter flying. Kevin was on the controls and Arshon was talking. The video is below. After that video we went into the gym becuase we could not go outside due to windy conditions that the helicopter could reportedly not withstand. After we went into the gym, Ari came and we all started testing the helicopter and it flew except for the exception that it kept spinning. Ben said that he had previously broken the helicoter and one of his relatives had fixed it. I believe they fixed it the wrong way however because there was only one balancer instead of two. We believe that this may have been the reason that the helicopter is off balance. We then tried adjusting the trim which made it go straight, witht the price of it not going very high. We then attributed this to low battery. Our goal for the next week is to get the helicopter to fly straight in order for us to make a quality recreation of one of our flights.

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