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Houston Air Show . . .
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Saety Briefng . . .
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Frisco Sq. Honor Veterans . . .
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Texas Teens Soar at Glider Academy
WINTER 2010
Wings Over Texas
is the autho-rized publication of the TexasWing Civil Air Patrol. It is pub-lished by a private firm in noway connected with the UnitedStates Air Force or Civil AirPatrol Corporation. The opin-ions expressed in the articlesand advertisements in this mag-azine are the sole responsibilityof the contributors and in noway constitute an endorsementby the United States Air Force orthe Civil Air Patrol Corporation.
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Lt. Col. Patricia P. Darby
Editor, Wings Over Texas
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Feb. 28; June 28; Oct. 28
Wings Over Houston
Air Show
Possibly the big-gest reason teenagers join Civil Air Patrolis to eperience air-planes and flying inevery way they can.The Wings OverHouston Air Showcan give CAP cadets avision of their future.Seeing the high-flyingperformances can show a cadetthat the sky might not be the limit.Pilots from all over the countrycome to Wings Over Houston toput on a high-flying etravaganzaon the weekend of Oct. 23-24,200. This year, the Thunderbirdsboomed through the sky above anawe-inspired crowd. From eplod-ing bombs to pounding engines,Wings Over Houston entertainedwith rhythm.From the agile F-6 FightingFalcon to the enormous Boeing C-7 Globemaster II, the Wings OverHouston Air Show put on a spec-tacular performance with a goodvariety of airplanes. Knowingfrom past eperience how goodthis annual event can be, specta-tors flocked to the air show. CAPcadets also came from all over
Cadet Chief Master Sgt. Isaac Acay
the Houston area, from SheldonCadet Squadron in Houston toMarauder Composite Squadron inKingwood. The show was sched-uled to begin at ten o’clock sharpand the pilots were ready. Theyhad prepped their planes at nine-thirty, and flight after flight tookto the air, their pilots eager toshow their prowess. The U.S. AirForce Thunderbirds are an amaz-ing aerobatic team, and one of themany high-flying eamples of dis-cipline and teamwork, which arekey principles in how CAP cadetsconduct themselves.From early Friday morninguntil late Sunday evening, cadetswere hard at work making the airshow efficient. Cadets who volun-teer to work at Wings Over Houstonare given a variety of tasks. The
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cadet staff is charged with divid-ing all cadets into teams. Whileone team would help rehydrate thepilots and spectators, another onewould clean up any trash or debrisin the general public areas.Over the weekend, the mostresponsible job cadets handledwas the CAP recruiting booth.On Saturday, Oct. 23, 200, theBoys Scouts of America came toearn their Aeronautical badgesat the CAP booth. All the while,the cadets worked diligently andcontinuously throughout the show.As CAP cadets helped the WingsOver Houston Air Show, they alsohelped put the “air” in air show.During mid-show, the pilotshad a special treat for the specta-tors, a Pearl Harbor Day re-enact-ment. While the Japanese planessoared over the field in front of the spectators, remote-controlledeplosives were detonated tosimulate bombing runs whenevera plane would dive down over anenemy target.This year, there was anotherrare treat: U.S. Air Force SpecialForces paratroopers made abeautiful entry from the greatblue frontier.This year’s show includeda spectacular NASA project: aprototype jet car. With the bodyof a dragster and the engine of afighter jet, the car is truly unique.As it reached four-hundred milesan hour in four seconds, the carastonished the crowd. On thesecond run, the prototype racedagainst a biplane across the lengthof the runway, starting as thebiplane was already in the air. Atthe beginning, the biplane wasahead, but it was quickly over-taken and left in the wind. Cadetsand spectators both wondered inamazement how NASA pulled off such an amazing creation.This spectacle truly made thisyear’s show unique.
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