Wed, Dec 09, 2009
Monthly Exercise To Begin At Midnight Friday
ANN Realtime Update
2140 EDT 12.9.09 The North American Aerospace Defense
Command and its geographical component, the Continental United
States NORAD Region (CONR) exercise scheduled to begin later
tonight in the Washington D.C. area will be postponed 24 hours due
to weather.
The one-day exercise,
Falcon Virgo 10-03, will begin late Thursday evening and continue
into the early morning hours Friday in the National Capital
Region.
Original Story: North American Aerospace
Defense Command will conduct exercise flights December 10th around
the National Capital Region (Washington, D.C.). The flights
will take place beginning around midnight and continue into the
early morning hours. In the event of inclement weather, the
exercise will take place the following day. People can expect
to hear and see NORAD fighter aircraft, Civil Air Patrol aircraft,
and Coast Guard helicopters as they participate in these
exercises.
The exercise has been carefully planned and will be closely
controlled to ensure NORAD's rapid response capability. NORAD
has conducted exercise flights of this nature throughout the U.S.
and Canada since the start of Operation Noble Eagle, the command's
response to the terrorist attacks that occurred on Sept. 11,
2001.
The training flights are held in coordination with the FAA, the
National Capital Region Command Center, the Joint Air Defense
Operations Center, the Continental U.S. NORAD Region, Civil Air
Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard and CONR’s Eastern Air Defense
Sector.
The exercises are designed to hone NORAD’s intercept and
identification operations, as well as procedural tests of the NCR
Visual Warning System. Since September 11, 2001, CONR fighters have
responded to more than 2,300 possible air threats in the United
States and have flown more than 54,000 sorties with the support of
Airborne Warning and Control System and air-to-air-refueling
aircraft.
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