Permission
- Luke Miller
- 6 minutes ago
- 1 min read
A short Instagram clip that Hazel and I recently created for the grade five class lesson on flight just passed 107,000 views, with 3,300 likes.
During this ten second clip we dove our Cessna at exactly the same time as we dropped a pen. As our plane matched the decent rate of the pen, we created the illusion of the pen floating in mid-air. Very cool.
Karina sharing this clip on her Instagram taught us all a lot about the reach of social media, and how a simple, amateur recording can reach so many people. While scrolling through the ‘likes’ it was also obvious how many headset wearing users obviously love aviation content.
For good or evil we have an unprecedented opportunity to get our messages out to the masses. The days of million dollar advertising budgets, or asking for permission are over.
With a camera, a friend, and an Instagram account, our ability to inform the world, or at least show them a floating pen, has become easier than ever.
Now that’s a peak ethos.
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