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Brittany Tyndall
Veronda Hutchinson
English 111
4 October 2015 small town airport Airplanes are something that most of us are familiar with; you’ve heard about them, seen them or maybe even traveled on one. I have heard about them my entire life, yet never cared to look into them. However I am nit talking about the kind of airplane you are mostly likely painting a picture of right now; I am talking about homemade airplanes. As the project approached I took this opportunity to get to know my dad and group of people he fly’s with a little better than I have before. I studied and observed this group over a short period of time. I took notes, pictures, did interviews and even experienced flying first hand. Throughout this ethnography I am going to give you an insight of the lives of this group of people and my adventure. September 26th of 2015 was my first day of observation, and I focused mainly on the setting, and who was there. The setting is at a small private airport right off the highway, in Erwin North Carolina, which is also a small town. There are 13 different shelters, each with one airplane inside. Most of the men had ultralights, however I also saw a gyrocopter, a light sport and an ultralight trike. An …show more content…
They all had on jeans, some type of tennis shoes, and t-shirts. Some wore baseball caps and some did not. The clothes they wore were obviously clothes they could get dirty in. When I got there all the men were sitting outside with their chairs in a line facing the runway just talking. Every now and then they would get up and go look as each other’s planes or go to the bathroom. I overheard them talking about the weather, stories from their childhood, and the news. They also talked about their planes and airplanes in general, and the bible as
Brittany Tyndall
Veronda Hutchinson
English 111
4 October 2015 small town airport Airplanes are something that most of us are familiar with; you’ve heard about them, seen them or maybe even traveled on one. I have heard about them my entire life, yet never cared to look into them. However I am nit talking about the kind of airplane you are mostly likely painting a picture of right now; I am talking about homemade airplanes. As the project approached I took this opportunity to get to know my dad and group of people he fly’s with a little better than I have before. I studied and observed this group over a short period of time. I took notes, pictures, did interviews and even experienced flying first hand. Throughout this ethnography I am going to give you an insight of the lives of this group of people and my adventure. September 26th of 2015 was my first day of observation, and I focused mainly on the setting, and who was there. The setting is at a small private airport right off the highway, in Erwin North Carolina, which is also a small town. There are 13 different shelters, each with one airplane inside. Most of the men had ultralights, however I also saw a gyrocopter, a light sport and an ultralight trike. An …show more content…
They all had on jeans, some type of tennis shoes, and t-shirts. Some wore baseball caps and some did not. The clothes they wore were obviously clothes they could get dirty in. When I got there all the men were sitting outside with their chairs in a line facing the runway just talking. Every now and then they would get up and go look as each other’s planes or go to the bathroom. I overheard them talking about the weather, stories from their childhood, and the news. They also talked about their planes and airplanes in general, and the bible as