the coastwatcher
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Missions for AmericaSemper vigilans!Semper volans!
The Coastwatcher Publication of the Thames River Composite Squadron
Connecticut Wing Civil Air Patrol
300 Tower Rd., Groton, CThttp://ct075.org .
LtCol Stephen Rocketto, [email protected]
C/SSgt Virginia Poe, ReporterC/SrA Michael Hollingsworth, Printer's Devil
Lt David Meers & Maj Roy Bourque, Papparazis
Vol. VIII, No. 26 15 July 2014
The Coastwatcher will not be published next week.
SCHEDULE OF COMING EVENT
18 JUL, 2014-CTWG Golf Tournament19 JUL-02 AUG-Nat'l Emergency Services Acad.22 JUL-TRCS Meeting29 JUL-TRCS Meeting
08-16 AUG-CTWG Encampment-Camp Niantic11-15 AUG-ACE Academy II (GON)23 AUG-Wing Wide SAREX-HFD
09 SEP-TRCS Picnic20 SEP-Cadet Ball-USCGA (tentative)01 OCT-CTWG Commander's Call and CAC17-19 OCT-CTWG/NER Conference16-18 OCT-NER AEO Course at Conference18-25 OCT-NER Staff College-New Jersey
CADET MEETING15 July 2014
submitted byC/SSgt Virginia Poe
Cadets were inspected by C/1Lt Tynan and C/MS Trotochaud at Groton-New London Airport. Inspection was followed by drill: columns, flanks and stationary.
C/CSM Ray taught a safety lesson on hot weather. Cadets were taught how to prepare for thunderstorms, heat, and tornados.
The cadets went outside for an emergency services lesson lead by C/CMS Johnstone and C/MS Vandevender. They covered search lines, whistle signals, compass reading, and various poisonous wildlife. C/1Lt Tynan had an open discussion with the car cadets about preparing for encampment.
C/CMS Johnstone gave his Armstrong Speech on the major air powers. Cadets Thomas Turner and Ryan Shantz were promoted to C/Amn and received their Curry.
Mr. Tuner and Maj Noniewicz
affix Cadet Turner's new
insignia.
Cadet Schantz reports for promotion.
CADET ACHIEVEMENT
Cadet Airman Alec deAndrade soloed a Cessna 172 at CAP's Powered Flight Academy in Durant, Oklahoma.
Cadet deAndrade receives an aquatic baptism from his father and flight instructor on the
achievement of his first solo.
SENIOR MEETING15 July, 2014Submitted by
Capt. Eliot White Springs
No formal Squadron training occurred. Officers worked on individual projects.
SM Jeffrey Stone completed Level One.
WEEKEND LISP FLIGHTS
TRCS two Long Island Sound Patrols over the last weekend.
On Saturday, Maj Keith Neilson, LtCol Lawrence Kinch, and LtCol Stephen Rocketto, mission pilot, observer, and scanner respectively carried out a 3.3 hour evening mission. The recreational boating activity was relatively light as was commercial shipping. New London Harbor was relatively crowded with moored boats due to Operation Sail and the evening fireworks display.
On Sunday, LtCols Thomas Wisehart, Stephen Rocketto, and Rui Rodrigues flew the afternoon patrol which included on pass up the Connecticut
River as far a Goodspeed. Again, traffic was light but a number of sailboat races were observed. A cloud deck at 3,000 feet formed at the western end of the patrol, just past Faulkner's Island and restricted observations.
The Coast Guard dispatched a boat and helicopter to a distressed vessel near south of Bridgeport but the event was soon resolved and we did not participate. There were a fair number of “Pan” calls involving boats with engine problems and one call for a look-out for a man in the water. SeaTow was kept busy.
The patrol was curtailed due to deteriorating weather.
The last patrol on Sunday was scrubbed due to weather.
AEROSPACE CURRENT EVENTS
F-35 Fire Cancels Appearance at RIAT
A fire which has been traced to a third stage fan in the low pressure section of the F135 engine caused the temporary grounding of the F-35 fleet. After inspections, no other aircraft were found to exhibit the same problem which caused the fire at Eglin AFB.
The four aircraft were scheduled to make an Atlantic crossing and make an appearance at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. Officials state that there is a possibility that the aircraft will make an appearance at the Farnborough Airshow later this week pending the conclusion of the safety investigation.
Commercial Delivery Vehicle on Way to ISS
An Orbital Sciences Cygnus supply capsule was lofted space-ward by an Antares rocket on Sunday, the 13th of July. The launch site was NASA's Wallops Island, Virginia facility. The supplies are due to arrive at the International Space Station on Wednesday and will remain for about a month. During its stay, the expendable capsule will be loaded with trash and will burn up upon re-entry.
AEROSPACE HISTORY
16 July, 1945-The United States tests the first nuclear weapon at the Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico.
17 July, 1917-Groundbreaking for the first National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics building , Langley Field, Virginia.
18 July, 1925-First Flight of the Goodyear blimp, Pilgrim.
19 July, 1954-First Flight of the DeHavilland Comet III.
20 July, 1969-The Lunar Module Eagle lands on the surface of the Moon.
21 July, 1911-Denise Moore goes West, the first woman killed while soloing an aircraft.
22 July, 1933-Wiley Post pilots the Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae, on the first round the world solo flight.
Winnie Mae at the NASM
23 July, 1930-Glenn Curtiss goes West.
24 July, 1943-The RAF, for the first time, uses chaff, strips of aluminum foil, cut to the wavelength of the German radar stations, to hinder tracking of their bomber stream directed against Hamburg.
25 July, 1939-First Flight of the mediocre twin engined Avro Manchester, subsequently modified into the superb four engined Lancaster heavy bomber.
26 July, 1952-At Holloman Air Force Base, two mice and two monkeys ride an Aerobee sounding rocket to 200,000 ft at which point they were ejected and safely recovered.
27 July, 1909-At Fort Meyer, Virginia, Orville Wright pilots the first official test flight of a US Army airplane.
28 July, 1950-British European Airways conduct the first scheduled passenger service by a gas powered turbine aircraft using a Vickers Viscount.
TACA Viscount
29 July, 1950-A North American RB-45 Tornado makes the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight by a jet aircraft.
The B-45, the first operational jet bomber of the USAF
30 July, 1935-Lt Frank Akers, USN, makes the first hooded landing on the aircraft carrier, USS Langley.
31 July, 1956-A flight of Sikorsky H-19s make the first trans-Atlantic helicopter flight.
The Sikorsky Model 55, US military H-19 Chickasaw in
Canadian Navy Livery