Operation Ouch and Barney's Loop the Loop challenge Blue Peter

Hold on to your seats because on today's Blue Peter I'll be

attempted to fulfil a life-long dream of taking control of a plane

and flying loop-the-loop. I am flying the plane at the moment.

hands are not on the controls. doing this all by myself. With

torrential rain blasting the UK, we want to know how the extreme

conditions are affecting you. Plus one of the daring doctors from the

new CBBC show Operation Ouch is here to check out your cuts and

APPLAUSE Hello. Welcome to Blue Peter. Oh,

yes that sound effect leads us nicely into what we're going to be

talking about, the weather. Have you seen it the past few days? We

have had the worst weather from 30 years this September. Up and down

the country everybody has been affected. This is in Newcastle.

There has been landslides all over the place. This is in Newham where

they filmed the training ground for dogs in Tracy Beaker. Lots of

people have been forced to leave their homes. There is a road up the

country, the A1 that was completely underwater. 100 cars were stuck in

that. If we go south we can go to Somerset. Apparently people in this

area haven't seen weather this bad in the past ten years. The whole

village was cut all. That wasn't a river. That was someone's street.

We want to know how bad things have been near you. Get in touch with us

and let us know where you are. How extreme has the weather been? How

has it affected you? Maybe it has forced you to stay away from school

- I stay forced - it might be a good thing. E-mail us, and we'll

add you to our map a little bit later in the school. Yesterday I

went to see two girls who told me about the weather where they were.

Apparently the water was up to their knees. When I found out about

that I had to have a look for myself.

As you may have seen on the news recently the UK has suffered its

wettest September in 30 years. So much rain has fallen, it has caused

rivers to burst their banks and schools were flooded. You were in

school, having a normal day, then the Fire Brigade turned up, didn't

they? What happened? Well, the river was where I am standing now.

It went up to them gates. We had to get evacuated. That was a good fun,

though, wasn't it? At about 2.00pm. So by 2.00pm, the Fire Brigade

attendant said it was too wet. Teachers can't get in and out of

the school. The parents can't pick you up. Go home and have fun. Some

people's gardens have been flooded as well, right? Yeah. We met Ellie,

whose garden looked like this just yesterday. You have a brook that

runs alongside your house just there. Because the rainfall - so

much of it had fallen that had burst, and it was up to the

trampoline. It was that high. How much of the garden was actually

flooded? Most of it around here, but down the back bit wasn't really

flooded. What are you doing now to make sure it doesn't flood again?

We've put some bricks down by the front door and some bags by the

fencing. I tell you what, let's go and get a cup of tea and warm up.

Sound good? Yeah. That is the good thing about it - the sense of

community, everyone helping each other out and drinking lots of tea.

If you have been affected, don't forget to get in touch and tell us

what happened where you are. Lots of people in the town I am from got

flooded. Let us know where you are so we can add you to our map. If

you have pictures of the chaos, do get in touch. One of the good

things about being a Blue Peter presenter - I am doing that because

I am getting excited... I am so excited. We're really lucky. We get

to do some pretty amazing things. Last year, a year ago exactly, to

arrive at Media City I got to ride in a jet ski, and climbed a mast on

a scary ship - the cutty Sark. This is me taking part in the street

luge. You kicked that guy off. didn't. I came second because I

raced a guy off. Because you kicked a guy off. The one thing I have

always wanted to do since I was a boy is fly a plane, do aerobatics,

that kind of thing. The people here at Blue Peter decided rather than

just deciding to fly a plane, they'd like to set me challenge as

well. Here is what happened. I am about to embark on a journey which

could see me take to the skies like never before. Have you ever wanted

to soar through the clouds free as a bird or like Superman? Well, so

have I. And today, I'm going to be learning to perform a stunt in one

Now, that was just a simple takeoff, but today, I'm going to be learning

to perform the classic loop-the- loop - cannot wait. I should point

out that today is just the training, but if my training is successful

and these guys think I am ready for it, I am going to be performing the

stunt at the Bournemouth Air Show. I will be flying with the Blades,

who are an aerobatic display team and have taken part in some amazing

shows including the Queen's diamond jubilee as well as a host of

British air festivals. Since they formed in 2006 they have flown in

over a hundred shows worldwide. They're the best of the best,

former RAF and Red Arrows pilots. Speed is their friend, and they're

expected to perform death-defying stunts in front of millions all

over the world. Normally, you can set your watch by them, but I can't

seem to find them. Yes, these guys don't only look

good, but they're also record breakers. Last year they completed

26 consecutive loop-the-loops, a new world record, so I am in the

most capable hands when attempting this stunt, Andy Evans has over 25

years' experience. He's going to mentor me through this exciting,

but risky, exercise. He'll decide whether I get the chance to perform

a loop-the-loop at the Bournemouth Air Show. These planes are a little

bit different to the planes we see in the sky. They can do so many

things. They are absolutely completely different to any

aircraft I flew in the air force as well. They're purpose built to do

extreme aerobatics. This dual- controlled aircraft is called the

Extra 300, and now he's going to run through some of the key

instruments. Put that on. That's a master switch. That turns on

everything. Air speed - how fast am I going? Also, how fast am I going

- that's the altimeter. That tells me how high I am. Even if you have

the stick in your hand, it's not just left and right. You have to

know all these things by heart. You're going to teach me a stunt I

am going to do on my own? Correct. You're going to do a stunt. I won't

be touching the controls. You will be flying the aeroplane. That's the

first thing that made me nervous. The second thing is G-force. Can

you explain what that is? Certainly. At the moment, everyone on the

ground experiences 1G, earth gravity. That's what's holding us

on the ground. With yourself, we're going to go do maybe 6G or maybe 0G.

At 6G, suddenly you're going to go up to half a tonne. Amazing, like a

visit to my favourite burger restaurant so G force is like an

invisible pressure you can feel while you're flying. My Grandad

used to work for British Aerospace. From the age of six, I have sat in

my a cockpit from being a small person over the years. He used to

take me there all the time to hangar five. I am doing it for my

Grandad more than anything else. He's not here to see this, but for

me it's a double whammy today. I am doing it for my Grandad, and

hopefully for thousands of people in Bournemouth today. For you.

Let's see how today goes. We'll see if you're up to it, then make a

decision whether you can go and fly there. But I don't look the part,

do I? I don't think so. I think it's time to get you kitted up.

Because I am flying today it's a must I wear a parachute. He gives

me some useful tips. The important thing you need to know is the D

ring is there on your left-hand side. Take this hand and put it

straight out. This first flight is for Andy to give me a taster of

what the plane can really do. We can start to do some more advanced

stuff later on. I need to pay full attention because next time, it

will be my turn. When I was about six years old, I built my own

version of this plane. It had pillows, a duvet and a bunk bed me

and my brother shared. This really All happy? I am very happy, yes.

Give them a good wave. This is like winning the lottery for me. We'll

So how are you feeling? I am 100%. Well, I thought I was 100%. Whoa! I

am sweating. I have that sort of - just before you're about to be sick

feeling. I'm so glad we finally landed. I

feel a little bit queasy. It's weird. I get travel sick. People

know that I do get travel sick, but it's normally that slow movement

like seasickness. I am very conscious of what I have had for

breakfast. Lovely. Get some nice My legs feel like jelly.

I'm really gutted. I was hoping to come down like the guy out of the

movie with a slow-motion walk, yeah, that was amazing. We just did a

loop, and instead I am like some Andy has told me to stay on the

ground specifically for this bit. These boys are in the air to show

us what they can really do. That's Phenomenal. If you look at the

wings, you'll notice there are little cameras on the end of them.

They're not there just for us today. They're there as a matter of

training because what they do is they film themselves while they're

in the air, go into a classroom when they land and review the

footage to make sure everything is absolutely spot on. These guys are

When you first joined Blue Peter, you said you wanted to do this. You

were desperate to do it. He knows so much about planes when he talks

about them, I think he's talking a foreign language. I am quite boring.

How desperate were you to do the loop-the-loop? I wanted to do that

since I was young. Right, you travel-sick monkey. Let's move on

because next week there's new show called Operation Ouch starting.

It's all about the amazing things our bodies do when they get bruised,

bumped or worse - have a look. Dr Chris. I am Dr Zahn. Join us for

a brand new series where we let cameras in to join medical teams.

We'll be showing you all the incredible things your body can do

and discovering some macing facts. That's so fascinating, I am

completely distracted from how disgusting it is. Operation Ouch.

I am delighted to say the one half of the Operation Ouch team - sorry,

I just hit you. It's all right. Hello, Dr Chris. Nice to see you.

Take a seat. Make yourself comfortable. What seems to be the

problem? You guys tell me. You have been showing me all your cuts and

scrapes and scratches. "What about this?" Look at this! Look at this.

In this new show, you work alongside your identical twin,

don't you? What's he like? It's brilliant. He's genetically the

same as me. We're good mates. He lives in the United States. He came

over. We did all sorts of experiments together. We used a

kitchen towel to dry out his tongue to show that when you dry out your

tongue, you can't taste anything. How did it work He can't see it's

chocolate. We put it on. He can't taste it because to dissolve the

chocolate molecules from China, you need saliva. So he couldn't tell?

No. Just dry the tongue, kitchen tongue. How many people are going

to be trying that now! What's nice about that is after being mean to

your brother... He gets a reward. You do some pretty gross things as

well. As soon as you say chocolate... We did experiments

like - we stuck things down each other's noses... Leave it alone.

Where's his toy? We did an experiment with sneezing.

I didn't know that when you sneeze, nothing comes out your nose. We did

this - made each other sneeze sticking bits of kitchen roll up

the nose. So nothing other than kitchen roll... Just to make us

sneeze. What does this prove? it shows is when you sneeze all the

germs come out of your mouth, not your nose, which I didn't know. I

have been a doctor ten years. This is sugar-coloured cream. It's a

great way to show that. If you're doing that, you don't want to shake

hand with someone after. someone you like. Can you sneeze

with your eyes open? No, if you open your eyes, they fly out,

probably not true. I always cover my eyes when I sneeze! Wouldn't it

be great if you could, though? We could spend years talking about

that, but let's talk about the scrape and bruises you get.

We do some amazing things on Blue Peter, but you inevitably take some

bumps and bruises. My feet are in a terrible state. They're kind of

trotters rather than feet. I can see that. Is this you? I was trying

to kick a football. I didn't kick the football. I kicked the plinth

it was on instead. It's a bit of a nasty cut. It looks deep, but my

foot will heal, won't it? Hopefully it has. You have taken the top

layer of skin. Did this bleed? You have taken off the top layer of

skin and exposed the blood and vessels underneath. The skin will

grow over it, but that must have hurt. The body is magic, isn't it,

if it can just regrow. It is amazing. The more I learn about the

body, I thinks this is a bizarre, sci-fi self-healing machine.

asked a lot of our viewers to e- mail in and show us some of their

injuries. This is Imogen. She's my God daughter. I didn't know she was

going to write in. She's good fun. I am not surprised. She place very

aggressively and has a lot of fun, and - I don't know... These are

scabs on her knees. She fell over on her first day in a new house.

That is white blood cells coming into the area to eat burgers and

debris. This black stuff is a stab. A scab is like a dome of over the

area. I led the way the dog is sitting and staring. -- I love the

way. Let's meet Poppy. She has a sling. She broke her collarbone.

This is tilted on her side. This is the clavicle, the collarbone. These

two N's will join up in a sling. How do bones heal? Bones are not

made of stone. They are living tissue. This thing will help the

two ends come together and they will grow back. It will heal very

strongly. That must have been painful. I imagine show -- I

imagine so. She gave herself a black eye. She has blurred under

the skin, around the eyelid. - is whether she has blood. She needs to

get the I checked out. -- she has blood. If you get a bruise and

think it will swell up, why did people put ice on it? That reduces

the blood fro - as macabre blood flow to the airier. -- their plebs

Thank you for coming in. We love it when you send a staff. You can send

us things that are created. -- send us stuff. Nic Joly made this for us

a couple of weeks ago. This is what people have come up with. This is a

10 pence piece. Alfred did that one. There is a man on top of that and

two dogs. Let's have a look at what Flora has done for star of she has

put a mermaid on the shelf. flora has done. Look how small they

all are. That uses the same technique from a few weeks ago.

Send us what you have made and created or ideas as to what we can

make. You may earn a Blue Peter badge. You have been hanging about

with a bunch of guys and achieving a lifelong ambition. Things are

about to get more tough, in a few ways. I have always loved flying.

Ever since I was a boy, hanging out with my grandad - an aeronautical

engineer. I challenge is to the form a loop the loop with the

display team, the blades. I have been taken on a passenger flight

and I need to do a loop-the-loop to complete my training. My moment of

truth arrives and time to impress You have control. You are flying

the aeroplane. Am I flying the plane at the moment? Completely.

You are doing us all by yourself. This is Barney's first go at a loop.

Start to ease back on the stick. A bit more, a bit more. That is

brilliant. Keep it like that. Keep it coming. That is lovely. Keep it

coming. That is it. Keep it coming a little bit. Of the lax it now,

relax it now. -- relax it now. That That is one dam and practice makes

perfect so I am going for it. is your best one so far. An awesome

loop! Absolutely amazing! How are you feeling? Amazing! This is

incredible - the best day of my life. Let's start pulling back. A

bit of right. Keep pulling. This is absolutely amazing. And I have

control. How are you doing? What an incredible experience! What an

incredible experience! How are you feeling? I have never use the word

elation but it is hard to give you enough words to tell you how

exciting that is. I want to run and jump. Andy has a little treat for

me. Pull up as if you are going to do a loop. Look to the left wing

tip. We're going up and up and up. We are turning around. How is that?

Thank you so much. All this is bringing memories back of my dear

granddad. I sat in so many planes. I sat with him in so many planes.

It was always his ambition to go up in a plane. Were she could have

seen what I have just done. -- I wish he could have seen. Hopefully

he is looking down on you and you will have seen what you have just

done. Have I passed? You have Can I just say, I speak for the

whole team, we are definitely very proud of you. Thank you very much.

It was amazing. Your dreams can come true. Look at that! There is

no denying how excited I was. There is another film to go and that is

when I've flight at the Bournemouth Air Festival. What next week to

find dead have that goes well stocked -- I fly. That is the first

time I have ever done that on the television. Let's talk about your

e-mails. So many people have been affected by the weather. We have a

big map. Of this one from Cardiff. We own chickens. The poor pen is

now a swamp. It is so disgusting! A nine-year-old girl from York is

saying she is by the river and it has flooded. She is praying for

more rain so she does not have to go to school tomorrow as she has a

spelling test. Archie from Enfield says the floods are affecting me

because I cannot go to school or get out of my house. That is no

good. Jack in Rotherham says the River Don increased in size in 24

hours. I had to go to school and the shopping centre got flooded. I

could not get might take away. hope you are all OK and we should

be through the worst of it. Glimmers of sunshine. Keep your

fingers crossed. On Monday, Blue Peter is putting on a special

programme. Next week we're going to be on at 5:45pm on CBBC. We will

have anything you need to know if you have ever wanted to work in the

music industry or be a pop star. You will love this programme if you

watched the X Factor. There up top tips from the biggest names in pop.

For an audition, the first thing we're going to see before you open

your mouth is what you are wearing. It is good to be nervous. Feet of

the crowd. Halfway through your first song, it honours have gone.

Be yourself. Being unique is the best thing. When I had Lego house

and saw 16 dozen people sing it. I thought, I co-wrote that. -- 16,000.

The Blue Peter appeal is coming in just three weeks' time. How will

We had a great time filming the music special. Do not miss it. We

have a very special guest next Thursday. He wrote the Diamond

Brothers, the Alex Ryder series. They were made into a fantastic

Storm Breaker film. You will know who we are talking about. Anthony

Horowitz will be in the studio. He will be answering your questions.

Let's take a look at what is happening on next week's show.