Rocketry - Stage II - Titan

O Flights!

Sign up for one after school or on a weekend.
Contact Capt Whitesell for days and time

Cadet Orientation Flights. 

In preparation please review Airport Environment and Aircraft Systems.

All Cadets under the age of 18 years old are eligible for Orientation Flights.  Parents may meet the pilot prior to the flight.  All Orientation Pilots are adult CAP members with over 200 hours of Pilot in Command experience.

As a Cadet, you will be in the Co-Pilots seat.  Another Cadets may fly in the rear seat.  Flights last approximately 1 hour for each Cadet having an opportunity to fly Front Seat.  Total time, including Pre-flight preparations and Post-Flight securing of the airplane will be approximately 4 hours when 2 Cadets are on the Orientation Flight.  If there is 1 Cadet, expect 2 1/2 hours total time.

Do cadets actually fly the plane?    YES!

CAP does allow cadets to handle the controls while aloft. Learning the basics of how planes fly is the main goal of the program. However, the pilot remains in command at all times, and only the pilot will fly the airplane during takeoff, landing, and other critical moments of the flight.

Orientation Flights

Cadet Orientation Flights. 
In preparation please review Airport Environment and Aircraft Systems.

All Cadets under the age of 18 years old are eligible for Orientation Flights.  Parents may meet the pilot prior to the flight.  All Orientation Pilots are adult CAP members with over 200 hours of Pilot in Command experience.

As a Cadet, you will be in the Co-Pilots seat.  Another Cadets may fly in the rear seat.  Flights last approximately 1 hour for each Cadet having an opportunity to fly Front Seat.  Total time, including Pre-flight preparations and Post-Flight securing of the airplane will be approximately 4 hours when 2 Cadets are on the Orientation Flight.  If there is 1 Cadet, expect 2 1/2 hours total time.

Do cadets actually fly the plane?    YES!

CAP does allow cadets to handle the controls while aloft. Learning the basics of how planes fly is the main goal of the program. However, the pilot remains in command at all times, and only the pilot will fly the airplane during takeoff, landing, and other critical moments of the flight.

Cadet orientation flights are safe, fun, and educational.

As the weather improves, we will begin our Cadet Orientation Flights.  In preparation for this, we will be reviewing Airport Environment on March 14 and Aircraft Systems later this month or early April.

All Cadets under the age of 18 years old are eligible for Orientation Flights.  Parents may meet the pilot prior to the flight.  All Orientation Pilots are adult CAP members with over 200 hours of Pilot in Command experience.

As a Cadet, you will be in the Co-Pilots seat.  Another Cadets may fly rear seat.  Flights last approximately 1 hour for each Cadet having an opportunity to fly Front Seat.  Total time, including Pre-flight preparations and Post-Flight securing of the airplane will be approximately 4 hours when 2 Cadets are on the Orientation Flight.  If there is 1 Cadet, expect 2 1/2 hours total time.

Do cadets actually fly the plane?    YES!
CAP does allow cadets to handle the controls while aloft. Learning how planes fly is the main goal of the program. However, the pilot remains in command at all times, and only the pilot will fly the airplane during takeoff, landing, and other critical moments of the flight.

Cadet orientation flights are safe, fun, and educational.

We will begin building our first rockets this spring.  In order to participate, all cadets must take the "Model Rocketry - Stage 1 Redstone Test" on the Learning Management System of the CAPNHQ site.  There are two documents to review that are listed on the Redstone test page.  Review these documents and take the test before the end of March.  You cannot participate unless you take this test.  There are only 10 questions on the test.

This is a link to the test page: https://www.capnhq.gov/CAP.LMS.Web/Quiz/quiz_start.aspx?qid=222
When you press this link, you will have to log in to CAPNHQ then you will go directly to the correct page.

To go to this page from CAPNHQ follow this path:

On the left column find and press "Learning Management System"
In the "Aerospace Education" section select "Model Rocketry - Stage 1 Redstone Test"

Happy New Year

We begin the new year with Rocketry.

Be sure to take the on-line test for Module 4 Rocketry before the January 10, 2014 meeting.

November 8, 2013 - Model Rocketry Begins

We have begin the study of rockets. The goal is to build and launch a Redstone type rocket in the spring.  There is a lot to do to get to the point of firing a rocket. 

The first task is to study the Dimensions Module 4, "Rockets".

November Cosmic Events

Comet ISON - A sun grazing comet from the Oort Cloud that will pass the Sun in November.  It is currently viewable in the pre-dawn sky. It will be closest to the Sun on Thanksgiving, November 28, 2013.  It will re-pass the Earth on it's way back to the Oort Cloud on December 26, 2013.

Visit www.isoncampaign.org and solarsystem.nasa.gov/ISON for more information

Picture below was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 10, 2013 when ISON was just inside Jupiter's orbit