CAP Squadron 80 Aerospace Education

This site is intended as a log of Aerospace Education activity in the Civil Air Patrol,
California Wing, San Jose Senior Squadron 80. As such, it will probably be of limited
interest to anyone outside of that organization (and even to many within it), but feel
free to poke around anyway.

We apologize in advance for the utter lack of salacious content. But since there is no shortage
of other sites that will be happy to cater to that need, we won't be losing any sleep over it.

06 August 2018

Presentation: August 2018

This month's AE presenter: Jeff
Date of presentation: 6 Aug 2018
Subject: The TESS Mission
Description: Jeff gave a brief presentation outlining the goals and progress of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. TESS is a space telescope, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission.

04 August 2018

Event: Drone Testing

David organized a mini-event at Baylands Park in Sunnyvale, CA. Several squadron members participating in our Quadcopter Kit AE Stem Project met at Baylands Park to fly the STEM Quad Lugs quadcopter. This quadcopter, built at the squadron by squadron members, was stable on the easy settings, near impossible to control on the sensitive settings. It will continue to fly in the future, and will be used at recruiting events. This successfully concludes this STEM project.

While there, the group also flew other member-owned quadcopters and fixed wing RC aircraft. The park had other RC modelers flying their aircraft, and the group spent quite a bit of time watching them as well.