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Volume 38 The Newsletter of AIAA Houston Section July / August 2012 Issue 1 The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics www.aiaahouston.org Hubble Revisited on NASA’s 50th Anniversary Ring Wing Waveriders Dr. Patrick Rodi Also, Starting in this Issue! Man Will Conquer Space Soon! (Collier’s 1952-54) AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 1 July / August 2012 Horizons, Newsletter of AIAA Houston Section T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S From the Chair 3 HOUSTON From the Editor 4 Cover Story: Ring Wing Waveriders, Dr. Patrick Rodi 5 Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Colonel Jack “Stitch” Daniel 9 The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Hobby Airport 13 Horizons is a bimonthly publication of the Houston Section of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Annual Honors & Awards Dinner, Robonaut 2 by Dr. J.D. Yamokoski 14 Douglas Yazell, Editor The European Space Agency Awards Two Studies to EADS Astrium 16 Editing team: Dr. Steven E. Everett, Ellen Gillespie, Shen Ge, Don Kulba, Alan Simon Europe’s First Lunar Lander by 2018 17 Regular contributors: Dr. Steven E. Everett, Don Kulba, Philippe Mairet, Alan Simon, Scott Lowther The 100 Year Starship 2012 Public Symposium in Houston Sept. 13-16 18 Contributors this issue: Patrick Rodi, Shen Ge, Ted Kenny, Scientific Preparatory Academy for Cosmic Explorers Inaugural Event 20 Dr. Albert A. Jackson IV Suddenly Tomorrow Came... A History of JSC, the Audiobook 22 AIAA Houston Section Executive Council The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 12 (Houston) 23 Daniel Nobles Current Events & Staying Informed 24 Chair Calendar 26 Jonathan Sandys Robert Plunkett Chair-Elect Secretary Cranium Cruncher by Dr. Steven E. Everett 27 Sean Carter Clay Stangle Section News 28 Past Chair Treasurer Recent Conference Papers by Section Members 32 Michael Frostad Brian Banker Vice-Chair, Operations Vice-Chair, Technical Man Will Conquer Space Soon! Reprinting Collier’s from 1952-54 42 Operations Technical The Collier’s Series Backstory, Dr. Albert A. Jackson IV 45 Dr. Gary Turner Dr. Albert A. Jackson IV Dr. Pamela Loughmiller Bebe Kelly-Serrato Man Will Conquer Space Soon! Collier’s, March 22, 1952, the First Articles 46 Jennifer Wells Dr. Zafar Taqvi Melissa Gordon Julie Mitchell The Back Cover: Attendees at the Leadership Retreat, August 15, 2012 76 Lisa Voiles Dr. Satya Pilla Rafael Munoz Sheikh Ahsan Horizons and AIAA Houston Section Web Site Svetlana Hanson Daryl Schuck AIAA National Communications Award Winner Tom Horn Roger Kleinhammer Angela Beck Dr. Steven E. Everett Eryn Beisner Gary Brown Douglas Yazell Ted Kenny Irene Chan Dr. Kamlesh Lulla Shen Ge Ludmila Dmitriev-Odier Ryan Miller Councilors 2004 2005 2006 2007 Alan Sisson Christopher Davila This newsletter is created by members of AIAA Houston Section. Opinions expressed herein other Dr. Larry Friesen than by elected Houston Section officers belong solely to the authors and do not necessarily repre- Shirley Brandt sent the position of AIAA or the Houston Section. Unless explicitly stated, in no way are the com- Sarah Shull ments of individual contributors to Horizons to be construed as necessarily the opinion or position Dr. Michael Martin of AIAA, NASA, its contractors, or any other organization. All articles in Horizons, unless other- Alicia Baker wise noted, are the property of the individual contributors. Reproduction/republishing in any form Ellen Gillespie except limited excerpts with attribution to the source, will require the express approval of the indi- Matt Johnson vidual authors. Please address all newsletter correspondence to editor2012[at]aiaahouston.org. Melissa Kronenberger Cover: Waverider image by Dr. Patrick Rodi. This table of contents page uses www.aiaahouston.org part of Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting The Starry Night (Wikipedia). AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 2 Page 3 Kicking Off Our 2012-2013 Year From the Chair DANIEL NOBLES, CHAIR As we look to the future of Why run the exact same stress position to climb the ladder human spaceflight in Houston calculation on varying wall once we rebuild on the solid we must look around and ask thicknesses of pipe every sin- foundation of technical com- ourselves, “Why do we do gle day in the oil and gas in- petence. it?” Do we remain here be- dustry once we have calculat- cause we have nowhere else ed the bending moments on As our former chairman Steve to go in a down economy? the ISS truss due to longeron King once wrote, “Technical The oil business is booming, shadowing? Why would competence in our world of and Houston is growing as a someone want to prescribe human spaceflight is a major result. Are the layoffs over? pills to the general public tenet allowing missions to be Probably not. Why do we once they have felt the adren- performed successfully and [email protected] stay? I see our situation as the aline of watching a man climb their crews returned safely (Daniel A. Nobles) solid foundation for a glorious outside the hatch in a space- home. It will also be required future. We’re now significant- suit while you watch his to meet the known and un- Links: ly leaner than we were, but heartbeat race at the adrena- foreseen challenges in imple- we lost some amazing engi- line of the moment that he menting the President’s Vi- https://people.nasa.gov neers. We did not lose them looks down at that blue sion for Space Exploration all. We remain. The Interna- sphere, and you can call to the and exploiting untold oppor- http://phone.jsc.nasa.gov/cgi- tional Space Station (ISS) is flight director and confirm tunities that will likely follow. isis/phone/phone.cgi complete, open for business that the crew is doing well? Over the years I have seen and business is good. We Why would you want to flip less importance placed within have significant scientific switches on a panel of a many organizations on keep- programs running twenty-four chemical plant, when you can ing one’s technical skills hours a day on orbit, with flip switches that fire engines sharp. In-house training find a larger ATS venue. We Robonaut2 watching guard. on the space station? Why courses, conference paper must hold more technical din- Thanks largely to Houston, would you want to train air- presentation, or working on ner meetings on a more regu- the United States of America line flight attendants how to an advanced degree after lar basis. We must better en- enjoys a continuous presence properly stow a tray when you hours fell by the wayside. gage our young professionals in space (since October of can train astronauts on how to This can be attributed to many through more networking 2000). AIAA Houston Sec- operate a toilet in space? Why factors such as budget pres- opportunities. We must en- tion is now entering its 51st would you want to sweep sures, contract changes, work- sure our workforce is ade- year. Why do most of us re- floors at a factory, once you force reductions, or limited quately trained and their skills main when most of us could have had your mop bucket thought put into career plan- remain current. We must make more money some- bumped by a tall robot wheel- ning.” (AIAA Houston Hori- make ourselves more relevant where else? ing itself down a hallway on a zons, September / October in meeting the goals and modified Segway? 2005, page 4.) Mr. King went needs of our profession at I stay because I have pride in on to talk about the new NASA Johnson Space Center this work. I am making a dif- We cannot get enough of it; NASA Administrator’s com- and in our student sections. ference for not just the USA, we are hooked. Though we mitment to technical excel- We will be part of the solu- but for mankind. I stay for the lost many great engineers, I lence. That NASA Adminis- tion. We will maintain our thrill of watching astronauts will no longer whine about trator is now the AIAA Presi- skills and retune AIAA Hou- strap themselves into rockets the folks we have lost. In- dent, serving over 35,000 ston Section to maintain our that hurl fragile men and stead I will focus on doing my members and 90 corporate proper place in our NASA women into the chasm of best. I will learn more, work members. Although none of community. The new 45- space using highly explosive smarter and refocus on things us knew the extent of the person council welcomes your gases and chemicals. It is the that matter. Astronauts will be changes we were to face since assistance, and we look for- rumble of the engines, the launching on commercial then, our focus on those tech- ward to a great year. If you white cloud of the shock wave spacecraft in the next few nical skills is still appropriate. have suggestions, please e- and the thrill of the work. We years and I want to be here to mail me. You can also find are fortunate to work as pro- see it. We must not become The AIAA Houston Section me on the NASA global per- fessionals in human space- demoralized. As long as some must focus on providing a sonnel directory, or swing by flight, supporting NASA and form of human spaceflight better product to our mem- my desk in building 7. Thank making the American public center remains here in Hou- bers. We must build vibrant you for your support of AIAA proud. I stay for the excel- ston, your AIAA Houston technical committees, adver- Houston Section. lence, the intellect and the Section will be here. We, who tise our Annual Technical drive of our team spirit. remain, will be in a wonderful Symposium (ATS) better and Daniel A. Nobles AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 3 Page 4 From the Editor Man Will Conquer Space Soon! DOUGLAS YAZELL, EDITOR We started a new logo design for a recent dinner meeting. Alan Sisson and Michael Frostad helped, and Irene Chan followed up by imple- menting these suggestions. Sara Bluestone, AIAA brand- ing & logos, along with her colleagues, contributed their expertise. We noticed in the AIAA branding & logos manual that her help is avail- able. most of the blue. That is a ing Man Will Conquer Space “reversed out” version de- Soon!, a series of 1952-54 Our two final designs are scribed in the branding & articles in the weekly maga- E-mail: shown on this page. We sug- logos manual. zine Collier’s. The first issue editor2012[at]aiaahouston.org gest that both logos become was dated March 22, 1952 official logos of AIAA Hou- Dr. Patrick E. Rodi was a and contained about 25 pages www.aiaahouston.org ston Section. Users can presenter at ATS 2012, our and six articles. All of those choose the one they prefer. Annual Technical Symposi- 25 pages are reprinted in this For a Horizons archive on a um of May 18, 2012. He pre- issue of Horizons. The next national AIAA web site click We will show these logos to sented a few recent Waverid- several issues of Horizons here. our council as soon as possi- er papers at AIAA national will continue reprinting the ble. If they are accepted, we conferences. We thank Dr. series. The total page count is Submissions deadline: October can proceed to create a letter- Rodi for this issue’s cover at least 89 pages. 10, 2012, for the September / head. Irene already created story. October 2012 issue, to be pub- one more version of both We will see you again here in lished by October 31, 2012. logos, using black in place of In this issue we start reprint- two months! Correction: Yvonne Vigue-Rodi was spelled wrong on page 16 of our May / June 2012 issue. That has now been corrected, but most readers downloaded that issue before we made the correction. Links: Horizons archive: https://info.aiaa.org/Regions/ SC/Houston/Newsletters/Forms/ AllItems.aspx Advertising AIAA branding & logos manual Please contact the editor about rates for quarter-page, half-page and full-page ads. https://www.aiaa.org/ E-mail: editor2012[at]aiaahouston.org Secondary.aspx?id=4967 This issue contains quite a few examples of advertising (complimentary ads for team members). Right: Please enjoy their quarterly newsletter: www.astronauts4hire.org. AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 4 Page 5 Ring Wing Waveriders Cover Story DR. PATRICK RODI The Dream Imagine a time when air transport to the farthest points on the planet will only take a few hours. This has been a dream for hypersonic vehicle designers for decades. While much progress has been made, the dream is still not a reality. Around the world teams of researchers, engi- ther poor. Additionally, the waverider is then found by neers and designers work in volumetric efficiency was determining the intersection groups or individually to ad- poor, internal packaging was point between each osculat- From page 35: vance the state-of-the-art. As a challenge, and the greatest ing plane and the upper sur- part of this effort, the pursuit L/D ratios were obtained at face, at the shock angle gen- Dr. Rodi recently presented of high lift-to-drag ratio (L/D) low values of lift coefficient. erated by the local flowfield these papers at the June 2012 supersonic/hypersonic config- In order to increase the L/D on that osculating plane. With AIAA conference in New Orle- urations has been underway of waveriders at useful lift the leading edge defined, the ans: for decades. By taking ad- coefficients, the Osculating waverider lower surface can vantage of the hyperbolic Cones Method was devel- be created by tracing stream- nature of the inviscid flow- oped. This approach permits lines from the leading edge Preliminary Ramjet/ Scramjet Integration with field, vehicle performance can a more general definition of point within each osculating Vehicles Using Osculating be greatly increased. One the shock wave shape and plane. In general, waveriders such utilization of this ap- produced vehicles with a sig- created with the Osculating Flowfield Waverider Fore- proach is the waverider fami- nificant improvement in L/D. Flowfield Method have supe- bodies Patrick Rodi Lockheed Martin ly of vehicles. Waveriders A recent evolution of wa- rior L/D performance over Corporation, Houston, TX, effectively increase the lift verider generation is the Os- those created using the Oscu- AIAA-2012-3223 generated from a vehicle culating Flowfield Method lating Cones Method, and moving through the air, at (OFWR). Similar to the Os- demonstrate better packaging Mach numbers greater than culating Cones Method, the efficiency. Non-Symmetric Waverider one, by riding the shock wave Osculating Flowfield Method Star Bodies for Aerodynamic that the vehicle itself has cre- uses a series of planes that The OFWR method was de- Moment Generation Patrick Rodi Lockheed Martin ated. are created normal to the lo- veloped while I worked at Corporation, Houston, TX, cal shock wave shape defined Lockheed Martin (LM) AIAA-2012-3222 Waveriders were first pro- at the trailing edge of the Skunk Works, an intensely posed by Professor Terence waverider geometry. While innovative environment with Nonweiler of the Queen’s the Osculating Cones Method a long history of producing High Lift-to-Drag Ratio Wa- University of Belfast. His uses a conical flowfield on revolutionary vehicles. It veriders for Missions in the Martian Atmosphere initial concept was to employ each plane, the new method demonstrates patience by Patrick Rodi Lockheed Martin planes of two-dimensional employs a generalized flow- going through many poor Corporation, Houston, TX; wedge flows to define a vehi- field such as generated by ideas to find one good idea. George Bennett, Hamilton cle. Since then, various ap- “power law” bodies. While locked in a major com- Sundstrand, Houston, TX, AI- proaches have been developed petition for a USAF hyper- AA-2012-3221 to generate waverider geome- In both methods, the proce- sonic vehicle contract I was tries. For example, by tracing dure used to generate the looking for an aerodynamic streamlines through the ax- waverider geometry begins discriminator to help our pro- isymmetric flowfield around by prescribing the upper sur- posal and conceived of the cones the Conical Waverider face trace and the shock wave OFWR method. While only Method was developed. How- trace on the baseplane of the an evolutionary improvement ever, the L/D ratios for such vehicle. The zero radius (i.e. over existing approaches, the conical waveriders were ra- sharp) leading edge of the performance advantages ob- (Continued on page 6) AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 5 Page 6 Cover Story (Continued from page 5) personic vehicles that would been designed with improved served with the new designs require Euler or Navier- area distributions for reduced were noteworthy and LM won Stokes analysis to reach a wave drag, and could poten- the contract. Since then the similar level of flowfield un- tially generate favorable in- OFWR method has been ap- derstanding. terference between the wings plied to a wide variety of mis- to further reduce drag. For sions over a range of condi- The Concept vehicles operating in the su- tions. personic regime, the sonic Often technical advance- boom footprint can have a By definition, the flowfield ments are made by simply major impact on utility be Dr. Patrick E. Rodi is the Aero- around a waverider, at the combining two or more exist- reducing or eliminating over- Sciences Lead for Lockheed design conditions, is known. ing ideas. The combination land routes and/or flight Martin-Houston for the Orion This information is assumed may be far more powerful times-of-day. Ring Wing Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. during the geometry genera- than each idea individually. vehicles have been designed Patrick earned his B.S. degree tion process, and can be ex- The Ring Wing Waverider with tailored lift and volume from The University of Florida, tremely useful in engine inte- (RWWR) design concept is distributions to reduce the and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees gration. When using an air- such a combination that has sonic boom footprint. As the from The Center for Hypersonic breathing propulsion system, yielded interesting and fruit- Mach number increases fur- Training and Research at The such as a Supersonic Com- ful results. ther, the sonic boom footprint University of Texas at Austin, bustion RAMJET becomes less of an issue as a as a NASA-Ames Graduate Stu- (SCRAMJET), correctly lo- Ring Wing vehicles offer a typical hypersonic vehicle’s dent Research Fellow. Follow- cating the cowl of the engine number of potential perfor- altitude is so great that any ing college, he was a National is important for obtaining mance advantages. Ring waves generated will largely Research Council Post- maximum performance. Ideal- Wings achieve low drag by dissipate before reaching the Doctoral Research Associate ly, a “shock-on-lip” condition reducing the induced drag ground. assigned to NASA-Langley to is desired so that all of the air component. This is especially study ramjet/scramjet inlets. directly ahead of the engine true at lower speeds when the Combining the Ring Wing Patrick has worked for Boeing, that has been processed by the lift coefficient is relatively concept with the OFWR gen- McDonnell-Douglas, and fore body is digested and used high. By avoiding wing tips, eration method has been in- joined Lockheed Martin Skunk for propulsion. During vehicle downstream running vortices teresting and enlightening. Works in 1996 to work in high design using the OFWR are minimized and the in- For my first attempt, a simple speed aerodynamics and aero- method the shock wave shape duced drag is reduced. Ring circular shock wave trace was thermodynamics on a number of is known, at least in an invis- Wing vehicles are much like employed on the baseline. programs such as X-33 and cid sense, and the engine a bi-plane aircraft in that they The resulting “Circular” vehi- FALCON. In 2007, he returned components can be optimally can generate a lot of lift for a cle definitely qualified as a to Texas to work on the Orion located with respect to the given planform, without us- Ring Wing, but with the cir- Crew Exploration Vehicle. Dr. shock wave. Additionally, the ing high lift coefficients. This cular shock wave pattern Rodi is an Associate Fellow of flowfield properties are also is especially beneficial for flow was compressed by the the AIAA and has authored 30 known, making propulsion large scale vehicle applica- vehicle and pushed out in all papers on hypersonics, grid cycle analysis easily per- tions where space on taxi- directions. (See the far left generation and optimization. formed during the early phas- ways, and around passenger illustration in Figure 1, show- es of conceptual design and gates and hangers, is at a pre- ing the shock wave trace as a optimization. This is a signifi- mium. At transonic and low thin black line and the body cant advantage waveriders supersonic Mach numbers, frontal area as a grey region.) hold over other types of hy- Ring Wing vehicles have (Continued on page 7) Figure 1. Front Views, showing vehicle (gray) and shock wave trace (black line). Image credit: Dr. Patrick Rodi. AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 6 Page 7 (Continued from page 6) In order to generate lift on the gion it could act as the nozzle Cover Story Only by extending the local top wing, I generated two for a SCRAMJET engine, chord length on the bottom of separate waveriders. The first and on the sides the close-out the vehicle could I generate was for the top wing with could function to reduce drag net positive lift and create a compression on the lower and be a prime location to fuselage volume for packag- surface. The second was for include control surfaces such ing. Also, with so much flow the bottom wing/fuselage, as rudders. For this iteration, compression occurring in all again with compression on a blunt close-out was added directions and little net lift the lower surface. A transi- on the upper section. The generated, the L/D was poor. tion region was added to resulting vehicle is shown in blend these two vehicles to- Figure 2. I then tried to elongate the gether. The result is illustrat- vehicle regions that could ed in the sketch on the far The Future generate useful lift. To ac- right in Figure 1, and is complish this, an elliptical known as the “Lift Generat- Experimental testing of the shock wave trace was used ing Top” vehicle. This ap- RWWR concept is beginning which produced a “Flattened” proach worked well and gen- this summer with Rutgers shape. Again, the local chord erated vehicles with a good University conducting a wind was lengthened on the body to L/D ratio at useful lift coeffi- tunnel test to quantify aero- generate net lift. (An illustra- cients. dynamic performance at low tion of this geometry is shown speeds. A number of geome- in the center sketch of Figure To the basic waverider fore- tries will be evaluated in their 1.) This approach reduced the body, a boat tail geometry subsonic facility. Rutgers amount of flow being pushed was added to the lower sec- University is using rapid pro- sideways. The L/D improved, tion. The function for this aft totyping methods to quickly but the upper wing wasn’t body close-out could vary produce the wind tunnel generating lift. around the vehicle. For exam- models of the configurations ple, behind the fuselage re- (Continued on page 8) Figure 2. A Ring Wing Wa- verider (RWWR) vehicle. Image credit: Dr. Patrick Rodi. AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 7 Page 8 Cover Story presented at this year’s AIAA panse of wetted surface area. recent years the field of ther- Houston Section Annual While these two attributes are mal-to-electrical energy con- Technical Symposium (ATS often detrimental to the aero- version has attempted to im- 2012). dynamic and/or aerothermo- prove efficiencies by recover- dynamic performance of a ing lost heat in a variety of Intrinsic to the RWWR con- hypersonic vehicle, there applications such as from cept are a long run of leading exist new technologies that automotive engine exhaust edge length and a large ex- can utilize these features. In systems and from the skins of high speed aircraft. Such a technology can exploit the inherent features of RWWR configurations. How these two technologies will work in combination remains to be explored. Further afield, optimization of RWWR concepts has just begun. Hopefully, the dream of hypersonic transports fly- ing people and cargo around the planet will someday be realized. Maybe those vehi- cles will be Ring Wing Wa- veriders such as the RWWR airliner shown in Figures 3 and 4, parked on the ramp at Austin-Bergstrom Airport. Figures 3 and 4. A Ring Wing Waverider (RWWR) Airliner at Austin-Bergstrom Airport. Im- age credits: Dr. Patrick Rodi. See page 27 for news and images of the Boeing X-51A (also known as the X-51A WaveRider). AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 8 Page 9 Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base News DOUGLAS YAZELL, EDITOR Colonel Jack “Stitch” Daniel, addressed in a list of chal- The JRB (seven or eight ten- Commander of Houston’s lenges on one chart: ants) and the US Air Force Ellington Field Joint Reserve (USAF, five tenants) are lo- Base (JRB) made a presenta-  Fiscal Year 2013 budget cated in separate but adjacent tion at a Bay Area Houston (budget control act $492B, areas at Ellington Field, with Economic Partnership sequester $1.2T, readiness- the latter listed as AFRC (Air (BAHEP) meeting on May hollow force) Force Reserve Center?). 16, 2012. Bob Payne  Base Realignment and Clo- (BAHEP) made the charts (a sure (BRAC) “201?” [year] The five AFRC tenants are: PDF file) available, and MSgt  FAA approval to fly Re- Dale Hanson explained in a motely Piloted Aircraft  The 75th Battle Training brief phone call that this (RPAs) in the National Air Command Division, US newsletter article based on Space (NAS) Army Reserve (mission: those charts is acceptable.  JRB status pre-deployment battalion and higher battle command  Joint small arms range Tenants, populations and training, capabilities: in-  Joint security funding needs are three main areas teroperable and integrated  Fitness center addressed by this presenta- training)  Running track tion. Populations are ad-  The 1-149th Attack Recon-  Base exchange (BX)/ dressed by the table on this naissance Battalion, Texas commissary page, providing details about Army National Guard  Joint dining facility numbers of personnel and (mission: detects the enemy  Joint medical facility economic impact. Needs are and provides lethal fires,  Billeting complex (Continued on page 10) AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 9 Page 10 News (Continued from page 9) headquarters and service Army Reserve National enabling US Forces to company, three infantry Guard (TXARNG) freely maneuver and take companies and five dis-  The US Coast Guard, De- the battlefield initiative, persed weapons companies partment of Homeland Se- capabilities: nine aerial curity (DHS), mission: weapons teams for continu- Seven listed Ellington Field defend the nation’s mari- ous combat operations) JRB tenants are: time borders and save those  The 451st Civil Affairs in peril, capabilities: 3 MH- Battalion, USAR (US Ar-  The 147th Reconnaissance 65C helicopters, needs: my Reserve) Wing, Texas Air National main hanger heating, venti-  The Navy Operational Sup- Guard (TXANG), mission: lation and air conditioning port Center, US Navy Re- federal– provides combat (HVAC) and roof repairs. serve (USNR), mission: support to multiple com-  The 138th Fighter Wind provide mission-capable mands, state– disaster re- Detachment (Det) 1, Okla- units and individuals to the sponse and border protec- homa Air National Guard Navy-Marine Corps teams tion, capabilities: MQ-1B (OKANG), mission: pro- in peace and war, capabili- Predator, air support opera- vides rapid and lethal aero- ties: train and equip units tions squadron, RC-26 space defense and air sov- for contingency operations. counter drug, needs: FAA ereignty assets in response  The 1 Battalion 23rd Ma- approval to fly in National to hostile actions against rines, US Marine Corps Air Space (NAS), JRB sta- North America, capabili- Reserves (USMCR), mis- tus (“purple money”). ties: armed F-16CM sion: inspects and assists  The 136th Signals Battal- Fighting Falcons, needs: command functions: exe- ion, Texas Army Reserve military construction cutes community relations National Guard (MILCON) in three areas. tasks to maintain a continu- (TXARNG)  Civil Air Patrol, US Air ous state of mobilization/  Houston Army Aviation Force Auxiliary, mission: deployment readiness, ca- Support Facility, Texas Below: MQ-1 Predator and pabilities: battalion staff, a (Continued on page 11) MQ-9 Reaper AIAA Houston Section Horizons July / August 2012 Page 10

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