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Posted by: admin on 04/30/2009 06:24 PM
Updated by: admin on 03/10/2010 12:08 AM
Expires: 01/01/2014 12:00 AM
Flight Training at Patriots Point
The following story appeared on Yorktown Aviator’s Blog - “Call The Ball!” on April 22, 2009:
Just as the Navy selected Pensacola, Florida, for the site of naval air training due to good weather conditions, Troop 9 out of Worcester, Massachusetts elected to come south to the USS Yorktown for flight training on a beautiful spring day in April. Led by Scoutmaster John Atlas (a scoutmaster for 23 years!) Troop 9 arrived Monday for a two day visit with 22 scouts and 5 adult leaders. (Click "Read More" for the full story!)
Just as the Navy selected Pensacola, Florida, for the site of naval air training due to good weather conditions, Troop 9 out of Worcester, Massachusetts elected to come south to the USS Yorktown for flight training on a beautiful spring day in April. Led by Scoutmaster John Atlas (a scoutmaster for 23 years!) Troop 9 arrived Monday for a two day visit with 22 scouts and 5 adult leaders
The troop conducted flight training (Aviation Merit badge class) with clear skies and temperatures in the 70’s, winds were West at 23 mph, gusts to 30 (a little bustery). Of course, we had nicer weather with our flight simulator software in the theater and the scouts’ attention was quickly attained when our first scout pilot, Ben (no last names to protect the innocent), encountered aufschlagbrand (crash and burn) on takeoff. Scoutmaster Atlas now has to write a letter home to his parents. The scouts quickly picked up the three axis flight control system and several were very close to attaining Topgun status…but time was running out…finally one scout, First Class scout Nick Day, stood forward as the last chance of Troop 9 to get a kill and he stepped up to the occasion with a nice reattack, rear quarter lead shot on the Japanese Betty. Another Topgun Scout pilot at Patriots Point, Nick is our sixth this year.
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