CADET MEETING Missions for America 15 July 2014 Semper vigilans! submitted by Semper volans! C/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. The Coastwatcher Publication of the Thames River Composite Squadron C/CSM Ray taught a safety lesson on hot weather. Connecticut Wing Cadets were taught how to prepare for Civil Air Patrol thunderstorms, heat, and tornados. 300 Tower Rd., Groton, CT The cadets went outside for an emergency services http://ct075.org . lesson lead by C/CMS Johnstone and C/MS Vandevender. They covered search lines, whistle LtCol Stephen Rocketto, Editor signals, compass reading, and various poisonous [email protected] wildlife. C/SSgt Virginia Poe, Reporter C/1Lt Tynan had an open discussion with the car C/SrA Michael Hollingsworth, Printer's Devil cadets about preparing for encampment. Lt David Meers & Maj Roy Bourque, Papparazis C/CMS Johnstone gave his Armstrong Speech on Vol. VIII, No. 26 15 July 2014 the major air powers. The Coastwatcher will not be published next Cadets Thomas Turner and Ryan Shantz were week. promoted to C/Amn and received their Curry. SCHEDULE OF COMING EVENT 18 JUL, 2014-CTWG Golf Tournament Mr. Tuner and 19 JUL-02 AUG-Nat'l Emergency Services Acad. Maj Noniewicz 22 JUL-TRCS Meeting affix Cadet 29 JUL-TRCS Meeting Turner's new insignia. 08-16 AUG-CTWG Encampment-Camp Niantic 11-15 AUG-ACE Academy II (GON) 23 AUG-Wing Wide SAREX-HFD 09 SEP-TRCS Picnic 20 SEP-Cadet Ball-USCGA (tentative) Cadet Schantz 01 OCT-CTWG Commander's Call and CAC reports for 17-19 OCT-CTWG/NER Conference promotion. 16-18 OCT-NER AEO Course at Conference 18-25 OCT-NER Staff College-New Jersey CADET ACHIEVEMENT River as far a Goodspeed. Again, traffic was light but a number of sailboat races were observed. A Cadet Airman Alec deAndrade soloed a Cessna cloud deck at 3,000 feet formed at the western end 172 at CAP's Powered Flight Academy in of the patrol, just past Faulkner's Island and Durant, Oklahoma. 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. Cadet deAndrade receives an aquatic baptism The last patrol on Sunday was scrubbed due to from his father and flight instructor on the weather. achievement of his first solo. AEROSPACE CURRENT EVENTS SENIOR MEETING F-35 Fire Cancels Appearance at RIAT 15 July, 2014 Submitted by A fire which has been traced to a third stage fan in Capt. Eliot White Springs the low pressure section of the F135 engine caused the temporary grounding of the F-35 fleet. After No formal Squadron training occurred. Officers inspections, no other aircraft were found to exhibit worked on individual projects. the same problem which caused the fire at Eglin AFB. SM Jeffrey Stone completed Level One. The four aircraft were scheduled to make an WEEKEND LISP FLIGHTS Atlantic crossing and make an appearance at the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford. TRCS two Long Island Sound Patrols over the last Officials state that there is a possibility that the weekend. aircraft will make an appearance at the Farnborough Airshow later this week pending the On Saturday, Maj Keith Neilson, LtCol Lawrence conclusion of the safety investigation. Kinch, and LtCol Stephen Rocketto, mission pilot, observer, and scanner respectively carried out a Commercial Delivery Vehicle on Way to ISS 3.3 hour evening mission. The recreational boating activity was relatively light as was An Orbital Sciences Cygnus supply capsule was lofted space-ward by an Antares rocket on Sunday, commercial shipping. New London Harbor was th relatively crowded with moored boats due to the 13 of July. The launch site was NASA's Operation Sail and the evening fireworks display. Wallops Island, Virginia facility. The supplies are due to arrive at the International Space Station on On Sunday, LtCols Thomas Wisehart, Stephen Wednesday and will remain for about a month. Rocketto, and Rui Rodrigues flew the afternoon During its stay, the expendable capsule will be patrol which included on pass up the Connecticut loaded with trash and will burn up upon re-entry. AEROSPACE HISTORY 26 July, 1952-At Holloman Air Force Base, two mice and two monkeys ride an Aerobee sounding 16 July, 1945-The United States tests the first rocket to 200,000 ft at which point they were nuclear weapon at the Trinity Site, Alamogordo, ejected and safely recovered. New Mexico. 27 July, 1909-At Fort Meyer, Virginia, Orville 17 July, 1917-Groundbreaking for the first Wright pilots the first official test flight of a US National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics Army airplane. building , Langley Field, Virginia. 28 July, 1950-British European Airways conduct 18 July, 1925-First Flight of the Goodyear blimp, the first scheduled passenger service by a gas Pilgrim. powered turbine aircraft using a Vickers Viscount. 19 July, 1954-First Flight of the DeHavilland Comet III. 20 July, 1969-The Lunar Module Eagle lands on the surface of the Moon. TACA Viscount 21 July, 1911-Denise Moore goes West, the first woman killed while soloing an aircraft. 29 July, 1950-A North American RB-45 Tornado makes the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight by a jet 22 July, 1933-Wiley Post pilots the Lockheed Vega aircraft. Winnie Mae, on the first round the world solo flight. The B-45, the first operational jet bomber of the USAF 30 July, 1935-Lt Frank Akers, USN, makes the Winnie Mae at the NASM first hooded landing on the aircraft carrier, USS Langley. 23 July, 1930-Glenn Curtiss goes West. 31 July, 1956-A flight of Sikorsky H-19s make the 24 July, 1943-The RAF, for the first time, uses first trans-Atlantic helicopter flight. chaff, strips of aluminum foil, cut to the wavelength of the German radar stations, to hinder The Sikorsky tracking of their bomber stream directed against Model 55, US Hamburg. military H-19 Chickasaw in 25 July, 1939-First Flight of the mediocre twin Canadian Navy engined Avro Manchester, subsequently modified Livery into the superb four engined Lancaster heavy bomber..