https://www.wtnh.com/video/whats-right-with-schools-bassick-high-schools-fly-plane-built-with-own-hands/?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referralby: Laura Hutchinson
(this is great !)
STRATFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — Three years in the making and worth the wait as students hit peak altitude.
In Stratford, Bassick High School students flew a plane built with their own hands. It was an especially proud moment for Stephen Blume, a shop teacher at Bassick High in Bridgeport who took on this three-year project to build a real plane with his students from scratch.
“This is a big deal. These are my kids. My auto kids. And I turned them into aircraft mechanics,” Blume said. It was more than a class project for then-student Tiany Perez. She was determined to overcome a life challenge.
Now she’s a high school graduate and got to cross the finish line at Three Wing Aviation at the Sikorsky Airport. “I’m dyslexic so I didn’t think this was going to be that big for me. And it is. It’s my whole future. I’m beyond excited for what awaits for me,” Perez said. There’s a lot that makes this special but to add to it all, this is the only school in the state to do it.
You better believe they’re going to do it again. In fact, the next plane is already half-finished.
The planes are being built for “Tango Flight,” an aerospace school in Texas. “Tango supplies all the materials, tools, whatever I need, they pay for everything, we build the planes for them,” Blume said when we talked to him earlier in the building process.
It’s an exciting partnership for the school, turned once in a lifetime opportunity for the students and their proud families.
