Informative Speech Topic Anyone??

[jspilot]

Hello everyone,
I need a little help. I have to perform an informative speech in professional speaking class. Can anyone give me some good informative/humorous aviation topics?? I just have to say away from bernoulli's principle and stuff like that. He said he just has heard that to much. I wouldn't do that away, I would like to have a topic that is interesting to non-aviation classmates also. Thanks a bunch!!

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Sounds interesting. Where are you going to school, and what types of students are there? etc...

I will do a little searching the internet and post back.

 

[jspilot]

Louisiana Tech Universiy. I am a Professional Aviation student. I have to take a speech class to meet the general requirements. They have every kind of major in my class. From art to engineering. Only one more quarter until graduation. Can't wait!

 

[flyifrvfr]

Do a speech on the media's misrepresentation of facts as so often happens after an aircraft accident. You can easily do twenty minutes of humorous descretions by the media. I refer you to the twin engine plane down in atlanta thread. In that thread, there is atleast three to four examples of misinformation.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

JSPilot,

Good luck with school. College was the best 7 years of my life. Enjoy your time there.

Here are some topics that I found on the internet using Google.

Plane Spotters

Sleeping In Airports

Passengers You Meet on Airplanes

Peasant's Guide to Upgrades

 

[surfnole]

For a Toastmasters group, I explained what it took to become a pilot.

Into ( I live in Florida)
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Who wants to go with me for lunch tomorrow in Key West? We can get there in two hours. How would you like to head over to the Bahamas any time you want in just an hour and half with an airline reservation (show a poster of some tropical island). I'm going to tell you how you can do it....

Then I explained the medical license, ground school, flight school, landings, landings and more landings. 2 hour written test, 1.5 hour oral test, 2 hour flight test, but don't make it sound too intimidating. How/where to rent a plane. Cost of the license. Show them the license.

Close with a quote from Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis.

"Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of live. Aviation combined all the elements I loved....There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure layin each puff of wind."

 

[flyifrvfr]

JSPilot,

Good luck with school. College was the best 7 years of my life. Enjoy your time there.

" Lots of people go to college for 7 years." "Yeah they are called Doctors."
Just kidding you. This is very close to the line from the movie " TommyBoy"

 

[s0ldier93]

I took an Airport Management class at an extended campus of ERAU in Norfolk VA. We were lucky enough to have the Executive Head of ORF teach this once-a-year class. My final essay/report/speech compared a GA flight versus a commercial airline flight. Being a lowly (sp?) PPL myself I used this page (http://www.gaservingamerica.org/Advantages_diagram.htm) for a basis. My speech became very interesting when the instructor began to protest the claims I was making. Since I knew him well enough (brown nosed my a$$ off for a possible job later) to joke with him, we went at it for about ten minutes. As it turns out, the guy who runs ORF had never been in a small plane and bluntly refused my invitation as he "didn't trust anything that small . . . . .just too darned small."