BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 16, Number 7 "Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." D. Burnham February 2010 Cub Scout Roundtable March 2010 Cub Scout Theme TAKE FLIGHT Tiger Cub Activities Webelos Athlete and Engineer FOCUS COMMISSIONER’S CORNER Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide Cub Scouts 2010 - Big article about CS 2010 in Pack How many things can you name that fly? This month Cub Admin helps this month. Bob Scott, the Innovation Scouts will make their own flying machines and learn about Coordinator at National who is leading this Program change, the Wright Brothers and their achievements. A pack might was at our Pow Wow last week. A great guy and full of invite a military or civilian pilot to come and talk about all enthusiasm (despite us being the third council he was that is involved in getting a plane up in the air. This is a visiting that week and me having him away from home on a great time for a pack to hold a kite derby or a paper airplane Saturday. This will truly be a great leap forward for Cub derby A den can visit an airport, a hobby shop, or a science Scouts. He said one of his favorite sayings is "Jet planes museum. Encourage boys to start working on the Science have no rear view mirrors." It means if you are truly going belt loop and pin. to go forward at high speed, there is no need to look back. Check out the CS 2010 article here and then go to the CORE VALUES website. And yes, my fourth Pow Wow is now over but I Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide still have no time. Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through Bill Smith writes that he is doing well. Be sure to read his this month’s theme are: article on Den Leaders in Training Topics Sportsmanship and Fitness, Boys will demonstrate good sportsmanship while participating in the pack Now that Pow Wow is over, I will be putting together a kite derby or paper airplane derby. DVD of this year's books. DVDs hold 4.7 gig versus 700 meg for CDs. They should be in the mail before the next Fun and Adventure, Cub Scouts will explore the issue of Baloo. If you sent me a Pow Wow Book and do exciting world of flight. not receive a DVD, drop me a line. Personal Achievement. Boys will feel a sense of Character Connections Ideas pride as they watch their creations take to the air. The core value highlighted this month is: Courage. Cub Scouts will learn of the courage it takes to follow one's dreams. Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on Courage. Cub Scouts can find courage as they venture off both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve into the wild blue yonder getting ready for their first flight if you thought about it!! (or anything else for the first time). It takes courage to do something for the first time and to forge new paths looking for knowledge and friends. Know. Memorize the courage steps: Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be careful. Tell why each courage step is important. How will memorizing the courage steps help you to be ready? Commit. Tell why it might be difficult to follow the courage steps in an emergency situation. Think of other times you can use the courage steps. (Standing up to a bully is one example.) Practice. Act out one of the requirements using these courage steps: Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be . careful. BALOO'S BUGLE Page 2 Months with similar themes to Up, up the long, delirious burning blue Take Flight I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace Dave D. in Illinois Where never lark, or ever eagle flew — And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod Month Year Theme The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Planes Put out my hand, and touched the face of God. May 1943 Aircraft John Gillespie Magee, Jr April 1946 Air Month See note on John Gillespie Magee, Jr at the end of this section. May 1950 Air Fun It All began with Model Airplanes Scouter Jim, Bountiful UT June 1954 Air Adventures At sixteen-years-old, Dick Rutan earned both his driver’s June 1955 Wheels Wings and Rudders and pilot’s licenses. Dick joined the Air Force Aviation April 1961 Air Adventure Cadet Program at the age of 19 and would become a July 1961 Harbors, Stations, Airports lieutenant in the United States Air Force and flew missions May 1989 Wheels, Wings & Rudders over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In September August 1990 Harbors, Stations & Airports 1968, his aircraft was hit by enemy fire and he was forced to November 1994 Harbors, Stations & Airports eject and evaded capture and was rescued by American forces. He received the Silver Star, five Distinguished Transportation Flying Crosses, 16 Air Medals, and a Purple Heart. July 1941 Things That Go April 1945 Transportation August 1947 Things That Go Month July 1951 Things That Go January 1953 Transportation June 1963 Things that Go January 1966 Transportation June 1969 Things that Go November 1972 Things That Go January 1974 Transportation May 1975 Things that Go July 1980 Things that Go March 1992 Things that Go THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR SCOUTERS Younger brother Burt, at the age of eight began designing Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares and building model aircraft. His first solo flight was also this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach when he was 16-years-old. He earned a degree in him at [email protected] or through the link to write aeronautical engineering. From California Polytechnic State Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD University, third in his class. Like his older brother, he went Roundtable Prayer to work for the United State Air Force at Edwards Air base CS Roundtable Planning Guide as a test project engineer. Years later he would team with “Thank you, God, for the dreams of the people who gave us the his brother to form Scaled Composites LLC designing possibilities of flight. Thank you for the birds that inspire them planes. as examples of how to do it. And thank you for the courage of In 1981, the older brother asked his business partner and those who kept trying until they succeeded. AMEN” younger brother to design a plane that could beat the World High Flight Distance record of 12,532 miles set by a B-52 crew in 1962. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth They sketched out a rough design onto a lunch napkin at a And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; lunch table. Not only would they break the World Distance Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Record, they would smash it and do something no one had Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things ever done before, circumnavigate the World without refueling. Burt designed the Voyager and Dick would fly it You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung with another pilot, Jeana Yeager. By the time voyager made High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, its first flight on June 22, 1984, more than 18 months had I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung passed and 22,000 hours had been spent working on the My eager craft through footless halls of air. aircraft. Another year and a half later at 8:01 a.m., on December 13, 1986, the plane took off from Edwards Air BALOO'S BUGLE Page 3 Base from one on the longest runways airstrips in the world Once you have learned to fly your plane, it is far less with its 17 fuel tanks full of nearly four and a half tons of fatiguing to fly than it is to drive a car. You don't have to fuel. The non-stop flight took 216 hours to complete and watch every second for cats, dogs, children, lights, road after a detour around Typhoon Marge, nearly every drop of signs, ladies with baby carriages and citizens who drive out fuel on the plane. The new record was now set at 24,986 in the middle of the block against the lights.... Nobody who miles. Not only was it a flight distance record, Rutan and has not been up in the sky on a glorious morning can Yeager became the first aviators to circumnavigate the globe possibly imagine the way a pilot feels in free heaven. non-stop. President Ronald Regan awarded the Rutan William T. Piper Brothers and Yeager the Presidential Citizen’s Medal of Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no Honor. feathers. Titus Maccius Plautus While not as famous as Charles Lindberg’s solo crossing of Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star the Atlantic, in May 1927, the Voyager shares the same dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to final resting place as the historic Spirit of St Louis. The notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is Voyager is now on display in the Smithsonian National Air strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an and Space Museum in Washington D C.