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C.A.P. Cadet Makes First Solo Flights
civil air patrol | 16 weeks 1 day ago | Comments 0
Civil Air Patrol Cadet 1st Lt Tristan Kooker,left, from Cape May County Composite Squadron, and flight isntructor Capt Eugene Harris.
TRENTON -- With help from a Civil Air Patrol New Jersey Wing scholarship, cadet 1st Lt Tristan Kooker from Cape May County Composite Squadron completed his solo flights on July 19.
After weeks of instruction with Capt Eugene Harris, Kooker got an approval to do his three solo takeoffs, landings and full stops, according to N.J. Wing News Online, produced by the New Jersey Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
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Sky's the Limit for Civil Air Patrol Cadets
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Front, Glider with Pinsky and Cipriani lands at from Woodbine Airport as part of Civil Air Patrol encampment July 10. Left: Heather Pinsky, right, prepares for takeoff as Francesca Cipriani sits in the glider cockpit. Photos by Harry B. Scheeler Jr.
WOODBINE - Francesca Cipriani, 15, of SouthToms River took flight this week in a Civil Air Patrol glider at the Woodbine Airport.
“Flying is a feeling we always wanted to do for thousands of years and now I can do it myself, it’s different from anything else on earth,” said Cipriani just after making her seventh flight here.
Cipriani, took part in a week-long camp hosted by the Civil Air Patrol Cape May County Squadron with 11 other teenagers from around the state at the CAP‘s summer encampment.
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Mon, 07/14/2008 - 12:47pm
The airplane in the picture is a Sailplane It does not have an engine. It has a glide ratio of over 20 to 1. It is towed aloft to 3000 by a powered airplane and then floats/glides back to earth. If the glider pilot can find a column of rising air the glider can climb to tens of thousands of feet. Those kids flew those gliders for as much as 30 minutes and then landed from the 3000 foot release point. All of them flew and landed their gliders without help
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Mon, 07/14/2008 - 11:29am
You're an ***.... These are gliders. They are towed up to an altitude and then released to glide without power.
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Sun, 07/13/2008 - 8:29am
THE PLANE DOESNT HAVE AN ENGINE. THESE KIDS DIDNT EVEN REALIZE THAT THEY WERENT LEAVING THE GROUND? HA
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