April 9&10, 2011
The Copus Christi Composite squadron had their own tent display for both days along with their Air Plane, for recruitment purposes as well as to explain the role of the Civil Air Patrol to all who inquired. There were many air planes on the flight line. The customs and boarder patrol allowed the cadets to tour their Communications Air Plane (only ones allowed) which started off the air show with a great treat. The cadets toured the flight line looking at the many planes that were shown at the air show.
Corpus Christi Composite Squadron Attends NAS Air Show
It is the 100 year anaversary for Naval Air Power! The Air Show this year was met with a big response by the people of Corpus Christi coming out to show their support of the different military branches and of course, the blue angels.
The Copus Christi Composite squadron had their own tent display for both days along with their Air Plane, for recruitment purposes as well as to explain the role of the Civil Air Patrol to all who inquired. There were many air planes on the flight line. The customs and boarder patrol allowed the cadets to tour their Communications Air Plane (only ones allowed) which started off the air show with a great treat. The cadets toured the flight line looking at the many planes that were shown at the air show.
Below: Blue and White F-18 SuperHornet; Blue Angels F-18 Hornet; Grey F18 SuperHornet; Blue Corsair (WWII Carrier Fighter);
The cadets were able to show the airplane to many potential cadets and their families. They played Drill Down with NavyJROTC cadets and potential future smaller cadets (ages ranged from 7-10). LTC Barfoot had the opportunity on Saturday to be interviewed by Texas News Channel 3, Captain Guadalupe was interviewed on Sunday and to top things off, the cadets had the opportunity to talk to two 2nd LT student pilots who graduated from the Air Force Academy. They answered many of the cadets questions, it was a great time.
Below: Cadet Barnes shows the cadets around the airplane; The 2LT's answer the cadets questions; LTC Barfoot is interviewed by channel 3 News
And of course the Blue Angels performed on Sunday April 10th, 2011. The show was a great spectacular and it was refreshing to see them as Saturday's performance was canceled due to wind and low cloud coverage.
All in all a great Air Show and a very good showing for the Civil Air Patrol.
Below: The Blue Angels before take off; The Blue Angels in their Diamond Formation; Blue Angels 5 and 6 above Texas A&M University; Blue Angels 1-4 flying towards the air base.
1 comment:
i wish i could have gone to the airshow. this is C/SrA vela.
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