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CAP West Virginia Wing holds Vacation Aerospace School

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Civil Air Patrol’s Potomac Highlands Composite Squadron in Petersburg, West Virginia, recently hosted Vacation Aerospace Education School to help the community’s youth get involved in aviation and aerospace.

Diana Layton was there and sent in these photos.

Major Bruce Dawson, the West Virginia Wing’s Aerospace Education Officer, helps students with the flight sims.
Students watch 1st Lt John Banks assemble a bottle rocket. Banks is the commander of Potomac Highlands Composite Squadron.
Banks observes a classroom of kids as they build balloon-powered cars.
Students launch bottle rockets.
Banks shows students how to launch their rubber band-powered helicopters.

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