CyberPatriot Training

Re: CyberPatriot training for the 4th week in April

It does not look like Saturday mornings is going to work for training in the future. I havendecided on Saturday evenings instead after talking with the group. There are just too many CAP activities that take place on Saturday mornings. I will not be available this Saturday evening because of a prior commitment. Instead we will meet at the Hangar Classroom at 1800 on Friday, April 27th.

Aerospace Education Links for April 2018

AE links April 2018

Neutron Star identified in our neighborhood, 200,000 light years away

https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronomers-release-stunning-images-one-130003144.html

NASA video composite of images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

https://www.space.com/40274-nasa-moon-in-4k-video-tour.html

SpaceX President at 2018 TED talks

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/spacex-president-ted-2018-4-1021214202

New storm on Saturn. Follow the planets this spring

https://www.universetoday.com/138939/new-saturn-storm-emerging/

NASA considering flying astronauts into deep space with interim second stage

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/nasa-likely-to-fly-first-deep-space-mission-on-less-powerful-rocket/?comments=1&post=35151321

NASA plans to accelerate missions with Boeing Starliner capsule focusing on astronaut transport to the International Space Station.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/04/13/nasa-hopes-to-have-boeing-delivering-astronauts-to.aspx

Powerful Atlas V booster to lift weather satellite payload into orbit

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ula-atlas-v-launch-to-feature-full-complement-of-aerojet-rocketdyne-solid-rocket-boosters-1021359937

Atlas V541 configuration http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/ula-atlas-v-launch-to-feature-full-complement-of-aerojet-rocketdyne-solid-rocket-boosters-1021359937

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=Awr9CWlHF9JalDEAnFZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0NjZjZzZhBGNvbG8DZ3ExBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=Atlas+V541&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=25&iurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americaspace.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F03%2Fgoesslaunchjohn.jpg&action=click

***Video obtained by drone of Kamchatka volcanos

https://vimeo.com/263459635

*How well do pilots understand weather? Not well according to Embry-Riddle quiz

https://www.flyingmag.com/embry-riddle-research-shows-many-pilots-struggle-to-understand-weather?enews041718

Additional weather products to be available on ADS-B in broadcasts

https://www.flyingmag.com/new-free-weather-products-coming-soon-to-ads-b-feed?enews041718

Dangerous pilot attitudes explained

https://www.flyingmag.com/pilot-attitudes-in-training?enews041918

*Learn about what it takes to be a payload integration specialist for an aerospace company

https://www.flyingmag.com/how-to-become-payload-integration-specialist?enews041918

Orion capsule to be built with over 100 3-D printed/manufactured parts

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/nasa-apos-orion-crew-capsule-154100388.html

What will the newest space telescope, TESS, try to accomplish? https://www.yahoo.com/news/exoplanet-nasa-apos-tess-mission-142507076.html

***Watch SpaceX launch and deployment of TESS

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/18/watch-spacex-launch-nasas-new-planet-hunting-satellite-here/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

Innovative idea to collect plastic waste from the Pacific ocean to be tested soon. System was developed by teenager.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40560810/the-revolutionary-giant-ocean-cleanup-machine-is-about-to-set-sail?partner=feedburner

Blue Origin in race for acceptance of new, powerful rocket engine with capability to be reused up to 100 times.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/be-4-blue-origin/

***New Hubble telescope videos of lagoon nebula

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-releases-astounding-video-lagoon-030814579.html

New evidence for rapid glacial ice melt in southern hemisphere associated with changing climate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/04/23/one-of-the-most-worrisome-predictions-about-climate-change-may-be-coming-true/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b603981dd4ec

Grim warning about global warming effect on California

https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-whiplash-between-drought-floods-study-175125823.html

Alyce Byrne Rocket Launch

Alyce Byrne Elementary School Rocket Launch 2018

CAP Squadron 508 plans to assist the 4^th grade class launch their rockets again this year at Contreras Field. The planned dates for the activity are May 17^th and 18^th. The good news is that interested students were so many that the classes had to be split for launches on two days. We need cadets to cover both dates from about 0800 to 1300. Please check your schedules and sign up on the AZ CAP eWing website. Cadets will supervise preparing the rockets, safely launching the rockets, teaching basic marching maneuvers, and helping students understand how we estimate maximum rocket altitudes.

CyberPatriot XI training for CAP Team 508

Yuma Team 508 CyberPatriot Training

Sessions will take place every 2^nd and 4^th Saturday at 6 PM at the CAP Hangar. Expect the classes to last 1.5 to 2 hours.

Content for April 14^th :

11.     Introduction to CyberPatriot

22.     Ethics and Cyber Security

Aerospace Education Agenda for Wednesday April 25, 2018

Aerospace Education Agenda for Wed. April 25, 2018

Yuma CAP Composite Squadron 508

1840       Announcements

                CyberPatriot training

                Possible Yuma Tower Tour May 25

                AE Links

1850       Telescopes-PowerPoint

1920       Telescopes-STEM Kit HANDS-ON Activity

                Align finder scope

                Experiment with eyepiece lenses

1940       Break

1945       Weather 2-PowerPoint

                High and Low Pressure Systems

                Weather Fronts

                Weather Maps

2020       Adjourn

EAA Young Eagles take flight at Squadron 508 Hangar

Yuma CAP Squadron 508 Hosts EAA Young Eagles Introductory Flight Event at MCAS Yuma

The Yuma Chapter 590 of the EAA hosted Young Eagles Introductory flights at the Yuma International Airport on Saturday, March 31, 2018. Yuma CAP Composite Squadron 508 provided the venue for the event at its hangar as a function of its community outreach initiative. CAP cadet and senior members arrived at the hangar before 0630 to begin setting up for the event. This included several pop-up sun shades in the parking lot and rows of folding chairs in the cleared hangar area.

Assembling the Pop Up Sun Shades

Cadet Franklin used a leaf blower to clear out all the accumulated sand that was threatening to resurface the hangar. EAA members lead by Young Eagle Coordinator Robert Helfrich handled logistics and paperwork for the day’s activity.

Bob Helfrich. It's a tough job but someone has to do it,

The line-up of attendees and their parents started before 0700 and grew unbelievably by 0800. 

Early line

Waiting to get up in the air

Blessing the Event

Parents registered their children and gave permission for the introductory flights. CAP cadet Obregon provided a preflight briefing concerning the major components of an aircraft using a briefing brochure and the Cherokee 180 in which he has part ownership as the Young Eagles waited to be marshalled to one of the six participating EAA airplanes.

Every Young Eagle gets a pre-flight briefing

Each participant was given a logbook to document the flight. Most of the pilots flew north of the airport for the approximately 20 minute flights. Air traffic control had a busy day with all of our flights as well as military training activity. Parents and grandparents recorded the events of the day with their ever-present cellular phone cameras.

Excitement for the whole family

A local TV station, Channel 11, arrived later in the day and hopefully will find time to air a segment about the EAA Young Eagles program in their evening broadcast.

Turn-out for the day was well ahead of that for last year’s event. Fifty-three Young Eagles took to the air in light general aviation aircraft.

Chuting up for the biplane

EAA flight line

Loading up, paperwork in order, brief good by

Aviation is exciting

Let's go flying

CAP pilots also flew six Squadron 508 cadets on orientation flights in the locally-based CAP Cessna Skylane. Hopefully the experience will lead these youths to explore aviation and STEM careers as they get older. In the meantime, CAP senior member leadership hope that some of the Young Eagles will take an interest in joining CAP as cadets once they reach 12 years of age.

Revised March AE Agenda for Squadron 508

Revised Yuma Composite Squadron 508 Aerospace Education Agenda for March 28, 2018

1845       Announcements
                                Yuma Tower Tour arrangements
                                CyberPatriot program plans for April
                                New Astronomy STEM kit approved
                                March Foothills Library Stargazing review
                                Discussion of Newton’s Second Law and Weight
1915       Video: Radio Astronomy and the Invisible Universe
1945       Break
1955       PowerPoint: Introduction to Weather

2030       Adjourn