Aerospace
Education News
A Message From the Director of Aerospace
Education
Wing HQs, West Columbia, SC
The New Millenium
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This is a great time to be involved in aerospace. The site you must
check often is NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center's page. The research and breakthroughs are always very interesting and may
impact how CAP carries out its missions.
There is some exciting research going on at
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center's - Advanced Space Transportation Research Program. Once you get to NASA's ASTP site, click "ASTP", then
click the red square that says "Space
Transportation Research" and then "Beamed Energy Launch
Vehicle".
Click here for Lightcraft Links.
Aviation News
CAP National HQs has approved engine upgrade of Cessna 172R and a study of a new navaid
system. Check NASA's AGATE program also.
Click here for Aviation News Links.
Einstein Wrong ???
Was Einstein wrong?? In 1905 Albert Einstein stated unequivocally that nothing in
the universe could travel faster than the speed of light. As stated in the August 1998 issue of
"Discover" magazine, "Some physicists believe that the universe's
ultimate speed limit (186,000 miles per second) may someday go the way of the national 55
MPH statute." Dr.Bernhard Haisch,
an astrophysicist at Lockheed Martin and Marc
Millis head of NASA's Lewis Research Center's -
"Breakthrough Propulsion
Program", believe that there is a way to make a spaceship fly (???) faster than
the speed of light.
Click here for Physics Links.
Flying Frogs
Did you know that frogs can fly ? Scientists in the
Netherlands were able to cause a frog to "free-float" by distorting its
electrons.
Click here for Frog
Links.
Click here for the latest Research &
Development. You will be surprised.
Live long and prosper.
Brad
Corpening, Capt., CAP
SCWg/DAE
Internal
AE News
National
Headquarters, Maxwell, AFB.
Good news!! The AE staff at
National HQs have been hard at work revising both the senior member AE Specialty Track and
the cadet aerospace program. CAP Regulation 280-2 has been revised top to bottom.
The Aerospace Education Officer Specialty track CAPP 215T, CAPP 215S and CAPP 215M was
reduced from three pamphlets into one pamphlet, CAPP 215. A new award for senior members,
the Scott A. Crossfield Award and ribbon, can be earned with attainment of the aerospace
education officer "Master" rating. The Scott A. Crossfield ribbon is not in the
bookstore catalog. Contact your region director of AE for info. CAP Pamphlet 15, Aerospace
Education Officer's Handbook is being rewritten to provide more "how-to" details
for aerospace education officers.
The cadet aerospace education program is also being revised. There will be six modules in
the Cadet Phase II Aerospace Education Program and each will be completed when the cadets
take and pass the required examination. The status of this initiative is "in the
works". The six modules with leader guides and tests are in coordination within the
CAP National Headquarters. The recently planned video supplements, which will help members
in all units conduct the aerospace education instruction and activities, are being
scripted and then will be produced. It was planned to commence a limited test of the NEW
material during 1998. The test has been delayed until the video supplements are available.
If you would like a more detailed
account of the new AE revisions, check out page 14 of the August 1998 edition of the
"CAP News".
Many thanks to those "special" AE folks at National.
External
News
Marshall
Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL
Work is continuing successfully on the
world's first air breathing rocket engine.
Research & Development
NASA, Marshall Space
Flight Center
Huntsville, AL
Ground-Based Space Craft Launching Systems
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute engineer Prof. Leik N. Myrabo is working with US Air Force
and US Army scientists to make laser propulsion a reality. Flight tests of a scale model
lightcraft have been conducted with great success, at White Sands Missile Range, using
PLVTS, a high energy CO2 laser.
Lightcraft
Links
Excellent article in
"New Scientist" magazine
United States Air Force Press
Release
LightCraft Images/Photos
CNN Breaks story on laser
propulsion
The Lightcraft Project at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Flight
test videos of the Lightcraft
Lightcraft is featured on Discovery
Channel program, "Rocketships".
United States Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Ohio
USAF Propulsion Directorate, Edwards AFB,
CA
High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility Content
of this web page has been temporarily removed. We don't know why. Keep checking.
White Sands Missile Range
White Sands Test Facility, Las Cruces, New
Mexico
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville,
AL
NASA Advanced Space Transportation Program
NASA's Marc G. Millis Breakthrough
Propulsion Program This guy was
just featured in a recent "Discovery Magazine" article. A must click if you are
interested in R&D of future space travel. 5 Stars *****
Breakthrough
Propulsion Physics Preliminary Results
Catherine Asaro's personal
report on BPP workshop.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Rensselaer Lightcraft
Project
Einstein Wrong ???
Physics
Links
"Discover" magazine
NASA
Lewis Research Center
Marc G. Millis's "Warp Drive....
When ??"
Marc G. Millis Breakthrough Propulsion Program
Dr.Bernhard Haisch
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed
Martin's Solar and Astrophysics Lab
High Speed Monatomic Research
A primer in quantum
mechanics by Dr. Bernhard Haisch
Interia: Does Empty
Space Put Up The Resistance ?? - An excellent article by Robert Matthews
for people like me, who don't know diddly about physics.
Beyond the Quantum
By Jack Sarfatti - Independent quantum researcher and author. PhD
physics UCR, MS physics UCSD, BA physics Cornell.
A Commentary from Jack Sarfatti - Excellent
article. Discusses IBM's
"Quantum Teleportation" work.
Stardrive - A
must click for interesting topics.
Internet Science
Education Project - Beware the little multimedia
dog-and-pony show. It will bring your modem to its knees, but well worth the wait.
Leading Edge International Research
Group - These chaps have been rather busy. Lots of links here.
Frog
Links
Dutch physicists levitate frog. Scientists at the University of Nijmegen use magnetic
fields to free-float a frog, grasshopper, hazelnut and a drop of water.
University of Nijemegen Magnet
Laboratory Seeing is believing. High Field Magnetic Laboratory at the
University of Nijemegen, Netherlands.
Anti-Gravity Links This site has
lots of anti-gravity links.
Hosted by Levitron, the company that makes the anti-gravity top.
Spellmaker. Click here to read the
technical stuff.
Is Magnetic Levitation
Possible ?
New Breakthroughs in
Animal Levitation Researchers at Florida State University in Tallahassee
levitate a Palmetto Bug.
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. - A
collaboration between Florida State University, Univ. of Florida, Los Alamos National
Laboratory .....
High
Magnetic Field Laboratory - Florida State University.
High Magnetic Field Laboratory - Educational Programs
- K-12 educational programs and links.
Anti-Gravity Links More
antigravity links.
NASA Gravity Modification Project.
Aviation
News
CAP National Board members voted to upgrade the engines in recently purchased Cessna 172Rs
from 160hp to 180hp. The board also approved a STUDY to evaluate ARNAV's cockpit
information system.
Aviation News Links
CAP News Release 4
Sep., 1998 Engine upgrade approved by National
Board.
ARNAV Corporation More
information about ARNAV's cockpit information system and WxLink at this site.
NASA
News Release New light aircraft technologies are
coming to market.
Advanced
General Aviation Transport Experiments. If you are a
general aviation pilot, this is probably one of the most important sites to check on a
regular basis for new and emerging GA technologies.
NASA GAP. General Aviation Propulsion program.
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