SOaR Program Offers Ground School,Flights, STEM Activities

The Celebrate Freedom Foundation, in conjunction with the South Carolina Aeronautics Commission and South Carolina Aviation Association, has opened the 2012 SOaR Aviation Aerospace Summer Camp for student applications.

Aero Linx: E6B Emulator This calculator requires the use of Javascript enabled and capable browsers. It is to emulate some of the capabilities of the popular E6B flight computer. Here is the current NOAA aviation weather. For distance between airports, try our Flying Distances Between North American Airports calculator. If the airport you are seeking is not in our table, please send us a quick note and we will add it, assuming we can find longitude and latitude information for it. For distance between specific longitude and latitude points, try our Distances Between Longitude And Latitude Points calculator. Clearing the values will ONLY clear for that calculator so as to retain the other values for other calculations.

Altocumulus Composed of flattened, thick, gray, globular masses, this middle cloud genus is primarily made of water droplets. In the mid-latitudes, cloud bases are usually found between 8,000 and 18,000 feet. A defining characteristic is that it often appears as a wavy billowy layer of cloud, giving it the nickname of "sheep" or "woolpack" clouds. Sometimes confused with cirrocumulus clouds, its elements (individual clouds) have a larger mass and cast a shadow on other elements. It may form several sub-types, such as altocumulus castellanus or altocumulus lenticularis. Virga may also fall from these clouds.

“The F-35 has the best handling of any jet I’ve flown, which means it’s going to be easier to land on a ship than current aircraft, and pilots can devote all of their attention to the mission. Combined with the world’s best sensors which allow the pilot to find and target anything that’s out there, and a stealthy signature, which means the enemy can’t do the same to you, this is exactly the aircraft the UK needs to provide the best protection for our soldiers, sailors and airmen for the next 35 years.” Source: Royal Air Force (RAF) Squadron Leader Jim Schofield -- the United Kingdom’s first military test pilot to fly the F-35C.