By Alfie and Mikey – Newton Class
On Tuesday, we went to the exciting and beautiful Brooklands Museum. We got to look at some colourful, fascinating race cars. We also got to see Concorde, it was really good fun.
Inside the museum we went to see some colourful cars but back in the olden days cars were a different shape, they were not so fast and the engines were at the front not at the back.
We got to go in a new race car, we learnt that the two bits sticking up (the fenders) help the car stick to the floor so hard that if you turned one upside down in a tunnel it would stick to the roof!
After that we went to see the race track , it was a really big race track, it was round and sloped, it was a wide track but you can’t drive on it any more.
We then learnt about the history of planes and found out that the first British plane was built at Brooklands. The first planes were made out of fabric and wood but now they are made out of metal.
We then went into a hanger which is just like a garage for planes. There was a plane called a Camel which gets its name from the fact it has two humps on it. There was also a model of the Concorde engine.
Finally we got to go onto Concorde and another posh plane. We also went on a cargo plane which has no windows, the Concorde had very small windows.We also saw some bi- planes
We saw a restored Wellington bomber which crashed into the Loch Ness in Scotland and was found while people were looking for the Loch Ness monster.
It was a great day.