{"id":11620,"date":"2011-07-01T02:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11620"},"modified":"2011-06-20T02:42:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T07:42:25","slug":"usafa-hosts-annual-aviation-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/01\/usafa-hosts-annual-aviation-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Hosts Annual Aviation Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force Academy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123259743\">annually hosts Teen Aviation Camp<\/a>, inspiring the children of active duty, retired, reserve, or guard Air Force members to a career in aviation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Teens and their families only have to pay for the cost of transportation to the Academy, the camp and its activities are free. The Air Force Services Agency sponsors and organizes the camp&#8230;\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over the course of the camp, the teens were introduced to aviation and the Academy. They toured labs, met with cadets, professors, and admissions representatives, ate in Mitchell Hall, built gliders, and flew aboard T-41 Mescalinas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cadets also flew gliders and met with Academy Admissions, which gave them an opportunity to learn what they needed to know to apply to USAFA.<\/p>\n<p>(The\u00a0aircraft was misidentified as &#8220;Mescalina.&#8221;\u00a0 The T-41 is the <em>Mescalero<\/em>, which is essentially a Cessna 172.\u00a0 <em>Mescaline <\/em>is the psychedelic underpinning of peyote.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force Academy annually hosts Teen Aviation Camp, inspiring the children of active duty, retired, reserve, or guard Air Force members to a career in aviation. Teens and their families only have to pay for the cost of transportation to the Academy, the camp and its activities are free. The Air Force Services Agency sponsors and organizes the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,1859,2,1858,1857,65],"class_list":["post-11620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-glider","tag-military","tag-t-41","tag-teen-aviation-camp","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}