Latest / Children's Hour / 6.28.26 - Part 1
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- 0:02Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radioized Children's Story Hour. It's a
- 0:05REMINDERI is a reading service intended for people who are
- 0:09blinder of other disabilities that make it difficult to read
- 0:12PRIMM material. Today we will be reading from various books
- 0:16on airports and airplanes. Your reader today is Diane. We
- 0:21will continue with the book The Airport The Inside Story.
- 0:27It was published by Saint Martin's Press. It has a
- 0:30copyright ear of twenty twenty three and the author is
- 0:34John Walton. Preparing for takeoff, lots of different people have
- 0:40important jobs to do before an airplane is ready to
- 0:43take to the sky. For safety, passengers normally get on
- 0:47and off the plane on its left hand site. All
- 0:50the jobs, such as catering, refueling, and baggage loading usually
- 0:54happen on the right hand site. Food delivery Tim drives
- 1:00a truck called a scissor lift that carries all the
- 1:02metal carts prepared by the catering team. Jada rows every
- 1:08cart straight into the airplane. Refueling airplanes use special fuel
- 1:14called kerosene. Sometimes this is made from plants. To refuel
- 1:19the plane, Nor connects her fuel pumper truck to the
- 1:23underground system and to the wing of the plane. Loading luggage.
- 1:28On some planes, luggage is loaded bag by bag into
- 1:31the hold. Sarah sends the luggage up a conveyor belt
- 1:35to Bob, who's waiting inside the plane ramp. Supervisor Kay
- 1:40make sure the airplane is ready to go and that
- 1:42everyone has performed their jobs. Baggage handlers Sarah and Richard
- 1:47drive luggage from the terminal to the plane and make
- 1:50sure it gets on board. Catering staff Tim and Jada
- 1:54work for the catering company, which makes all the food
- 1:58that passengers and crews eat on boards in the belly
- 2:05of the plane. Everything that an airplane carries is in
- 2:09its package hold is called the cargo. This includes suitcases,
- 2:13life saving medicine, and even fresh fish. On big planes,
- 2:17luggage is loaded into specially shaped metal containers that fit
- 2:21inside the curved body of the air craft. Some other
- 2:24cargo goes in these containers too, while some is loaded
- 2:28into flat paletts. Does someone order sushi? Roger and his
- 2:33team are handling a big shipment of fresh fish. Roger
- 2:37is a loadmaster, and he is responsible for making sure
- 2:40everything is loaded in the right order and safely secured
- 2:44in the hold. One of the team. My mood checks
- 2:49his table to see which pallette to load next before
- 2:52arriving here. At the loading dock, the fish was put
- 2:55into containers and large in a large warehouse at the airport.
- 2:59A refree frigated room kept the fish. Cod weird and
- 3:04wonderful cargo. Airplanes can transport all kinds of special cargo
- 3:09in the hold. Have you ever wondered what might be
- 3:12underneath your seat while you doze off to sleep up
- 3:15in the cabin flying animals. If you think it's only
- 3:19people that fly around the world, think again. Some animals
- 3:22have busy schedules too. Race horses need to travel to
- 3:26international races, while animals such as pandas are phone to
- 3:30zoos in different countries. Medicines, foxing, and other medicines can
- 3:35be flown from where they are made to where they
- 3:37are needed. They often have to be kept in refrigerated
- 3:40containers open wide. Some planes are specially made to carry cargo.
- 3:46A few of these special planes even have noses to
- 3:49lift up to allow the cargo on board. It almost
- 3:52looks like the plane is smiling fresh food. Have you
- 3:57ever wondered how bananas, mangoes, and other truck fruit can
- 4:00be bought in shops across the globe All year round.
- 4:04Fresh fruit and vegetables are flown to international destinations daily.
- 4:09Flashy cars, sports cars, or luxury luxury vehicles can be
- 4:14delivered from the factory to their new owners by plane.
- 4:17They're carefully loaded on board using special equipment. Wildlife at
- 4:22the airport. Felix the falcon swoops around the airport chasing
- 4:28away geese. He has a very important job making sure
- 4:31that birds don't fly too close to airplanes. His trainer, Mina,
- 4:36wears a special leather gloff for him to land on,
- 4:38and she gives them a treat. Good job, Felix. All
- 4:42that training paid off. While Mina deals with the birds,
- 4:45Ken is busy taking care of bigger wildlife today too.
- 4:49Deer are getting too close to the fence that surrounds
- 4:52the airport. For everyone's safety, they shouldn't be here. Ken
- 4:56drives his truck up to them and turns on the speakers.
- 5:01He plays the recording of a dear danger call, and
- 5:03the deer run back to the forest. They might visit
- 5:06the airport again, but Ken will be ready. Is that
- 5:10a bird isn't a plane, No, it's a drone. Sometimes
- 5:13the falcons like Felix aren't available. Airports use drones to
- 5:18buzz around and scare off birds. Airplanes are the only
- 5:21things with wings allowed at the airport. If birds fly
- 5:24into an airplane or its engines, they could cause an accident,
- 5:28so it's always better to be on the safe side.
- 5:32Firefighters at the ready. Did you know that every airport
- 5:36has a fire station. Although accidents and fires are very rare,
- 5:40firefighters need to be ready for every emergency. Limb is
- 5:44the fire Cheap and he is supervising firefighters Judith and
- 5:48Cawlu as they check that all the hoses, fire engines,
- 5:53and other equipment are ready for whatever may come their way.
- 5:56Firefighters at the airport use special fire engines that can
- 6:00go off road if needed. That's so that they can
- 6:03drive over the grassy areas around runways in case an
- 6:07airplanes gets off while taking off or landing. The fire
- 6:10engines that Judith and Klou drive have big nozzles on
- 6:14the front that can spray foam or water, depending on
- 6:17what's needed to fight the fire. Occasionally, when they have
- 6:21some downtime, firefighters spray water in a big arch to
- 6:24welcome new planes to the airport. Firefighters train regularly to
- 6:29put out fires as quickly and as safely as possible. Today,
- 6:33Judith and Kallalou are performing a routine fire drill. They
- 6:37are using training equipment that includes something that looks like
- 6:40an airplane but isn't. This fake airplane is called a
- 6:44fire training rig is used by firefighters to learn how
- 6:47to put out an aircraft fire. Limb shows Kalalou and
- 6:51Judith where to aim lower Kalallou by the engine, pilots
- 6:58and flight attendants. Every airplane has at least two pilots
- 7:02and a team of flight attendants who make up its crew.
- 7:06They work together to fly the plane and look after
- 7:09the passengers. Make sure to greet them when you board
- 7:12the plane. Pre flight prep before every flight, the crew
- 7:16have a meaning to get to know one another and
- 7:18share information about the flight time, passengers, and safety protocols.
- 7:24The team, pilots and flight attendants walk through the airport
- 7:27and go through security and passport control just like you.
- 7:31Captain Beverly is in charge of this crew today. Flight
- 7:35deck checklist on board, Captain Beverly and First Officer Jean
- 7:40Luke take their seats in the flight deck the cabin
- 7:44where all the controls are Before every flight, they use
- 7:47that checklist to make sure that the plane is ready
- 7:50to fly, parking brakes, set, shocks removed. Safety first flight
- 7:57attendants keep all the passengers on the plane set before
- 8:01taking off. In ten Shawna and Liza check that all
- 8:05of the safety equipment is on board and rage to
- 8:07be used if needed getting on the plane. Once inside
- 8:11the plane, Sophia and Rowan look at their tickets with
- 8:14a confused look on their faces. Twenty C and twenty E.
- 8:18What does that mean? Their mom shows flight attendant Shawna.
- 8:21The family's tickets just walked down the aisle until you
- 8:25see the number twenty above the seats, Shawna says, cheerfully.
- 8:29On an airplane, every seat has a row number and
- 8:32a letter on it. Row one is at the front,
- 8:35followed by Row two, and all the way back until
- 8:37you run out of the plane. The letters start with
- 8:40A on the left side of the plane and then
- 8:42follow the alphabet across the seats to the right. There
- 8:46are three seats in every row on their plane. Rowan
- 8:48sits in the middle seat next to his mom in
- 8:51one row, while Sophia sits next to the aisle on
- 8:55the other side of the aisle. Rowan looks at the
- 8:58other passenger still boarding and wonders where they come from.
- 9:02Sophia and Rowan went to read their books during the flight,
- 9:05so they put their bipicks underneath the seats in front
- 9:08of them. Their parents plan on taking a long nap
- 9:10as soon as the plane takes off, so they lift
- 9:13their bags into the overhead bends so they're out of
- 9:16the way. Once everyone has taken their seats, it's time
- 9:20for the safety demonstration. Flight attendant Xeon shows all the
- 9:24passengers how the crew keep them safe on board. After
- 9:29pointing out the nearest emergency exits, Xeon demonstrates how to
- 9:34use the seat belts. The airplane seatbelt is different from
- 9:38car seat belts, so Rowan has to practice a couple
- 9:41of times. There you go, Rowan, You've got it, says
- 9:45his mom up in the clouds, just like Sophia in Rowan,
- 9:50Melinda and or Dad's have just boarded their plane. Once
- 9:53the doors are closed, the airplane is ready to go.
- 9:57When an aeroplane moves on the ground, it's called taxiing. Melinda,
- 10:00who was at first nervous for a trip, is now
- 10:03excited to see the world from the sky. She watches
- 10:06out the window as the airplane taxis passed the air
- 10:09traffic control tower and the fire station. Captain Crewe Ready
- 10:15for takeoff, says Captain Sally over the loud speaker. The
- 10:19engines start to spin really fast and make a loud noise,
- 10:23and the plane accelerates forward. They whizz down the runway
- 10:27and then up, up they go. Melinda's pushed back into
- 10:31her seat, just like being on a ride. The airplane
- 10:34makes a big turn after it takes off, and Melinda
- 10:37spots the airport. Look, daddy, there it is. After the
- 10:41airplane finishes climbing, it levels off at what is called
- 10:44the cruising altitude, usually around thirty five thousand feet up
- 10:49in the sky. Everyone settles down for the flight, but
- 10:52first it's time for dinner. Flight Attendant Natalie rows the
- 10:55cart down the aisle chicken her pasta, which would you prefer?
- 11:00Natalie then hands the passengers their meals on one of
- 11:04the trays that was carefully prepared earlier by the catering team.
- 11:08Prepare for landing. On a different flight, Captain Monica and
- 11:12her care about to land at our airport after a
- 11:15long journey. Flight Attendant Rocksande walks through the plane, reminding
- 11:19anyone who has reclined their seats to put them back
- 11:22and upright, and to put away all the trade tables.
- 11:25She also makes sure everyone's seatbelts are fastened and that
- 11:29all bags have been put away, either into the overhead
- 11:31bins or underneath the seats in front of each passenger.
- 11:35In the flight deck, Captain Monica and First Officer Ach
- 11:39can concentrate on landing the plane. They're using all their
- 11:43skills and experience to fly the airplane smoothly, lower and
- 11:46lower toward the airport. Air Traffic controllers tell them which
- 11:50direction to fly in and when to make turns seal
- 11:53the plane lines up with correct runway. In the distance,
- 11:56they spot the runway lights, which helped them judge how
- 11:59far away the airport is and how high they're flying.
- 12:02Just before landing, an automatic system called a radio automat
- 12:06or meter calls out how high they are in feet
- 12:10fifty forty thirty twenty. As they crossed the near end
- 12:14of the runway, they reduce power on the engines and
- 12:17they're playing floats to the ground with a little bump
- 12:20time for the brakes. And here we are. Good job team.
- 12:24Passport Control. When you fly a different country, you have
- 12:28to pass through a checkpoint which is called passport control.
- 12:32This is where immigration officers make sure everyone is who
- 12:35they say they are. The airport is very busy today.
- 12:38There's a line of recently land a passengers. The zigzags
- 12:42all the way down the immigration hall, just like a
- 12:45huge worm. At the checkpoint, you either show your passport
- 12:48to immigration officer or you use an electronic gate that
- 12:52scans your passport. May just derived from legos in Nigeria.
- 12:57She's incredibly tired, but rive. She hands her passport to Kevin,
- 13:02an immigration officer. Kevin checks every passenger's passport, looks it
- 13:07up in the computer system, and sometimes as a question
- 13:10about their trip. Once he's happy, he stamps their passport
- 13:14and waves them through. Now Key just arrived from Tokyo
- 13:18in Japan. He uses the electronic gate, where the line
- 13:21is a lot shorter. He holds the photo page of
- 13:24his passport on the scanner and looks into the automatic camera.
- 13:28A picture appears on the screen and numbers count three
- 13:31two one flash. The gate uses facial recognition technology to
- 13:37scan this picture and confirm is no Key success. The
- 13:42screen shows Key a green arrol. The gate opens and
- 13:46he walks through to go to find his luggage. Where's
- 13:50my bag? Did you check a large bag before your flight?
- 13:54If you did, it will reappear in the baggish claimed
- 13:57cares sal belt, usually about thirty minutes or so after
- 14:00your plane pulls up to the gate. You can't see them,
- 14:03but baggage loaders are working as quickly as they can
- 14:07to unload your bags from the plane, drive them to
- 14:09the terminal and put them on the right carou soel
- 14:12belt where everyone is waiting for their bags. The carou
- 14:15soel belt slowly wind around and around so everyone can
- 14:19get their luggage. Matilda just derive from a beach vacation.
- 14:23She's not prepared for the cold weather here and quickly
- 14:26looks for a sweater. She still needs to pick up
- 14:30her surfboard. People check all sorts of luggage. Can you
- 14:34help Matilda find her surfboard? Oh? No, Murphy's suitcase didn't arrive.
- 14:40Sometimes the luggage gets left behind at the departure airport.
- 14:44Murphy goes to the lost luggage desk, where Peter asks
- 14:47him some question questions, what color is it? How big,
- 14:52is it? Does it have wheels? And if so, how many?
- 14:55Peter puts all this information to the computer, and luckily
- 14:59he finds Murphy's Peter apologizes and requests for it to
- 15:03be put on the next flight. Murphy's bag will then
- 15:06be delivered straight to his hotel reuniting with friends and family.
- 15:11Once you pass through the final doors to the arrivals area,
- 15:16your journey through the airport is complete. Here family and
- 15:19friends might be waiting to welcome you. Is that someone's
- 15:22dad waiting with flowers? Can you spot the driver ready
- 15:25to take the business woman to an important meeting? Oh? Look,
- 15:29that family has just reunited after a long time. In
- 15:32the arrivals area, you'll also find all sorts of ways
- 15:35to continue on your journey, even if someone hasn't come
- 15:38to collect you. Perhaps there's a train you need to
- 15:41rush to, or maybe you'll take the bus to reach
- 15:43some friends in the city. Wait, is that you know
- 15:47that famous actor from that blockbuster movie? All kinds of
- 15:51people fly through the airport, and sometimes that includes big stars.
- 15:55Did you see anybody famous on your trip? No pictures,
- 16:01says the actor's bodyguard as they make their way past
- 16:04the paper Rozzi nighttime at the airport. At most airports
- 16:11there aren't many flights taking off or landing late at night,
- 16:14but the airport never goes to sleep. With fewer flights,
- 16:17there are fewer people needed to send them where they
- 16:20need to go. Air Traffic controller Trixie waves good night
- 16:23to her colleagues who have arrived for their night ships.
- 16:27Other parts of the airport are still buzzing with activity
- 16:30and the maintenance hangar planes are being checked and repaired.
- 16:33At the gates. Mechanics and technicians check that every seatbelt
- 16:38and in flight movie screen is working properly on every airplane.
- 16:43Cleaners replace things such as pillows and blankets ready for
- 16:47the first flights in the morning. In the terminal, how
- 16:51they are closes up cafe for the night. In just
- 16:54a few hours, eager passengers will be lining up for
- 16:58their morning coffees. Cleans up a mess on the floor
- 17:01so nobody slips on it. While security guard Janus patrols
- 17:07the halls and waving goodnight to their colleagues. Pilots Monica
- 17:11and Aiken head home for the night. Outside, it gets
- 17:14quieter and quieter. The airport is waiting for tomorrow, when
- 17:17new passengers will arrive to start a brand new day.
- 17:24Our next story is called Construction Site Taking Flight and
- 17:29it was published by Chronicle Books has a copyright year
- 17:33of twenty twenty three and it was written by Sherry
- 17:37Dusky Wrinker. Six truck friends are on their way to
- 17:42start a brand new job today. They're off to work
- 17:45and feeling strong. But traffic's slow. The lines are long.
- 17:50They can barely row at all. This is whole airport
- 17:53is way too small. Everyone must sit and wait on streets,
- 17:57on runways at the gate, and everyone is running late.
- 18:01There should be a bigger road to handle all this
- 18:03traffic load. The airport should be bigger, too, so everyone
- 18:07can zip right through. This will be one massive mission.
- 18:12Build a big airport. Addition, so many trucks they've never
- 18:17seen in awesome airplanes in between. They wave hello, and
- 18:21then they're gone. No one slows or stops for long.
- 18:25The airport's an exciting place. The ground crew keeps a
- 18:28speedy's pace. There's a lot for them to do. Construction
- 18:33trucks get busy too. First excavator starts to row. He
- 18:39digs and scoops to make a hoe. A huge foundation,
- 18:42wide and deep, and a giant soul soil heap load
- 18:47or joins the team today and dump trunk calls the
- 18:51dirt away. A jetplane flies in from the sky, touches
- 18:55down and lands nearby. She slowly taxes to her pulls
- 19:00right in, then stops and parks That loader, pulls up
- 19:04to the side and loads the luggage get a ride.
- 19:07She takes suitcases off the plane, then all aboard the
- 19:11baggage train. Now here comes tractor off to tow the
- 19:15luggage where it needs to go. Bulldoze or ribs and
- 19:19pushes strong and clears a path two miles long. Cement
- 19:23mixer pours some fresh concrete. Then it spreads out all
- 19:27nice and neat, with more runways for planes to land.
- 19:30Their airport's starting to expand. Hydrant dispenser fulls fuel tanks.
- 19:37The grateful airplanes all say thanks. Tug pulls a plane
- 19:41away to tech. It's time for this one's maintenance check.
- 19:45In the sky and on the ground, there are airplanes
- 19:48all around. While airplanes wait their turns to fly, the
- 19:52trucks keep working hard nearby. When this job is finally done,
- 19:57no more delays for everyone. Cargo plane is taking flight,
- 20:01hauling tons with strength and might. Now. Rubble removal machine
- 20:07is getting runways nice and clean, rolling spinning with his
- 20:10scrubber erase an airplane tire rubber. He polishes the landing
- 20:15strip to help make sure that planes won't slip. Jumbo
- 20:21jets trip is beginning. She takes off with fan blade spinning.
- 20:25Crane truck sees her flying past. He's nearly finished here
- 20:29at last. While crane truck's lifting loads today, Lift truck
- 20:34works too. Not far away. She drives right in and
- 20:37stops before she lifts up to the airplane door. Crane
- 20:41truck sees what she can do. I see you like
- 20:45to lift things too. Skid steer carries heavy stacks. She
- 20:50rows on wheels or on tracks with attachments for each
- 20:54shore she can lift and push in more. Her grapple
- 20:58helps her haul a being. She works so hard to
- 21:01help the team. Everyone is on the go when suddenly
- 21:04it starts to snow, an unexpected springtime storm. Quickly, snow
- 21:09drifts start to form, and soon the snow is really high.
- 21:13The runways covered. Planes can't fly. Snow removal team let's row.
- 21:20They all line up to take control. Snowplows gather, then
- 21:24attack with sweepers whirling round and back, and here come
- 21:27the mighty blowers. Awesome roaring snow drift throwers. Now tankers
- 21:33all row in and spray some stuff that melts the
- 21:36ice away, and at last runways clear. This job is done.
- 21:41The airplanes cheer. Construction trucks then lend a hand so
- 21:46ground crew trucks can work as planned. The icing truck
- 21:50now clears the snow and ice from planes so they
- 21:53can go. She lifts her boom into the sky. She
- 21:56aims and set the pressure high with spray layer, lasting
- 22:01at full power. Planes get a de icing shower from
- 22:05those to tale she sprays each one. The sky's clear
- 22:08as the last plane's done. This project was a soaring
- 22:13feat and now this giant job's complete. The airport crew
- 22:18all wave goodbye. Thanks. Now we can really fly, So
- 22:22another workday ins. These teams were strangers, now they're friends.
- 22:28While plane lights twinkle overhead, her working trucks roll into bed,
- 22:33drive off to sleep and dream of flight. Good work,
- 22:37big trucks, now sh good night. Our next story is
- 22:42about going to the beach, and it's titled a Beach Tale.
- 22:48It was published by Boyd Mills Press Incorporated. It's a
- 22:53copyright yeer of twenty ten and it was written by
- 22:56Karen Lynn Williams. Swish Swosh. Gregory drew a lion in
- 23:04the sand, a sea lion dead, asked a sandy lion.
- 23:09Gregory said, Sandy needs a tail, said dad. Gregory picked
- 23:14up his sturdy drawing stick. Don't go in the water,
- 23:17and don't leave Sandy. Dad said, I won't, said Gregory.
- 23:21Dad sat down on the dolphintail under the blue umbrella.
- 23:26Swish swoosh. Gregory drew a tail. He did not go
- 23:29in the water, and he did not leave Sandy. Sandy's
- 23:32tail got longer until Gregory came to a purple jellyfish.
- 23:37He made a loop around the gooey blop. So did
- 23:40Sandy's tail. Swish swish. Gregory came to the mound, an
- 23:46old castle washed smooth by the waves. He went up
- 23:50and over and down. So did Sandy's tail. But Gregory
- 23:53did not go in the water, and he did not
- 23:55leave Sandy. Sandy's tail got longer until Gregory came to
- 24:01horseshoe crab. He made a big zig and then a
- 24:04zag around that old crab's pointer. Sandy's tail went zig
- 24:09zag too, swish swoosh. Gregory came to a giant hoe.
- 24:14Gregory went down and up, so did Sandy's tail. Sandy's
- 24:18tail got longer until Gregory saw a tiny ghost crab
- 24:22scurring sideways into his dark round hoe. Gregory went round
- 24:26and round the hoe. Sandy's tail went round and round two.
- 24:30But Gregory did not go in the water and he
- 24:33did not leave Sandy. Swish swoosh. Gregory wrote his name
- 24:38g R E G. Sandy's tail got longer. Suddenly, a
- 24:43wave snuck up onto the sand. It tickled Gregory's toes.
- 24:47Gregory jumped back and traced the lacy wavy line. Sandy's
- 24:52tail made a wavy line two, but Gregory did not
- 24:55go in the water and he did not leave Sandy.
- 24:58Swish swoosh. Sandy's tail got longer until Gregory came to Jetty.
- 25:03He heard a loud roar. Gregory looked up. A giant
- 25:07wave crashed on the rocks. The spray flashed Gregory. He
- 25:11turned around to look for Dad. Ooh, oh what now,
- 25:15swish swoosh. Gregory followed Sandy's tail. He followed the wavy
- 25:20line swish swoosh. He traced his name, his nickname backward
- 25:26g e rg. He went around and around the deep
- 25:30dark ghost crab hoe. Swish swoosh. He went down into
- 25:35the giant hoe and up again, zagging and zig. He
- 25:38went around the horseshoe crabs pointer. Oooh. Gregory looked down
- 25:43the beach. No Sandy, no Dad on the dolphin tail
- 25:47under the blue umbrella. But Gregory saw the mound of
- 25:52the old castle waft smoothed by the waves. Swish swoosh.
- 25:57He went up and over and down with Sandy's tail
- 26:01and a loop around the gooey purple jellyfish. Swish swosh.
- 26:06Greggory followed the loop, and then he came to Sandy.
- 26:11Ooh oh. Gregory looked up. There was the blue umbrella.
- 26:16There was the dolphin tail. Dad waved, Sandy has a
- 26:20long tail, he said. I didn't go in the water,
- 26:24Gregory said, But Sandy got wet, he added. Dad held
- 26:27Gregory's hand. Let's get wet too. This concludes the children's
- 26:33story our for today. Please join us next time as
- 26:36we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales. Thank
- 26:40you for listening, and please tay tuned for the Lexing
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