By Major Joe Ely Carrales, CAPROBSTOWN, TEXAS— Four Cadets and two CAP Officers from the Corpus Christi Composite Squadron’s Brahma Cadet Flight took a planned field trip to Nueces County Airport in Robstown, Texas to have a lesson on aviation and aircraft on Thursday 5 April 2007.
“It was a nice evening trip,” said Major Joe Ely Carrales, squadron commander and CAP Officer leading the activitiesin Kingsville, “I’m glad the cadets enjoyed themselves and learned a great deal about the aircraft.”
Cadets commenced their usual Thursday meeting at Memorial Middle School going over information on the Cadet Program, the Texas Wing Summer Encampment and uniform issues. This meeting, however, ended with a field trip.
1st Lt John D Hoelscher, Personnel Officer and aviator in the Corpus Christi Comp Squadron, conducted some simple instruction on aviation and discussed parts/components of the Aircraft. Cadets were allowed to sit in an aircraft and examine how controls and instruments were configured.
A brief review of aerospace education including Bernoulli’s Principle, air pressure and lift prompted questions from Cadets on how these concepts were applied in flight. Also discussed, but to a lesser degree, were principles of navigation and weather.
“The cadets look forward to Orientation Flights to be planned for a future date,” Major Carrales continued, “this is a mere taste of CAP aviation potential in our area and I look forward to the looks on their faces the first time a CAP aircraft is made available to them for such rides.”
The Kingsville Cadet Flight is in its second official week of existence. The Flight is an element of the Corpus Christi Comp Squadron and is garrisoned out of Memorial Middle School in Kingsville, Texas. The flight is currently made up of four cadets and is slated to add one more whose application is in to National Headquarters at Maxwell A.F.B. in Alabama.
Initial projects for the unit will be to uniform every cadet, commence a model rocketry program and insure a solid implementation of the CAP Cadet Program as well as growth. SEMPER VIGILANS
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