Emergency Services
The number to call in a life threatening emergency.
What is 911?
This is the year the Wright brothers made their first powered flight.
What is 1903?
These uniforms are commonly worn on Aerospace and Emergency Services nights.
What is ABU's or OCP's?
This CAP core value emphasizes doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
What is Integrity?
These are the first three planets in our solar system.
What is mercury, venus, and earth?
CAP helps people in danger through this type of mission.
What is search and rescue?
The four forces of flight are.
What is lift, drag, thrust, and weight?
When addressing a senior member or officer cadets often use this form of address.
What is sir or ma'am?
In CAP a good leader sets this by demonstrating proper conduct, discipline, and dedication.
What is leading by example?
This is the year apollo 11 landed on the moon.
What is 1969?
This small single engine airplane is commonly used by CAP for search missions.
What is the cessna 172 or 182?
This occurs when an airplane’s wing exceeds its critical angle of attack causing a sudden loss of lift.
What is a stall?
This term refers to the imaginary line formed by the edge of the blouse and belt buckle on a properly worn uniform.
What is the gig line?
This leadership principle encourages leaders to praise cadets in public but correct mistakes in private.
What is praise in public criticize in private?
This term describes the speed a spacecraft must reach to break free from Earth’s gravity and travel into space.
What is escape velocity?
This CAP event simulates a real life search mission to train teams in locating missing aircraft or people.
What is a SAREX?
This instrument shows the engine's speed in revolutions per minute.
What is the tachometer?
When reporting to a senior member or officer in uniform a cadet should stop this many paces away before rendering a salute.
What is two paces?
This term describes the process of helping cadets develop skills, confidence, and judgment through guidance and example.
What is mentoring?
Launched in 1957 this was the first artificial satellite sent into orbit.
What is sputnik 1?
During a CAP mission teams plan and organize their search using this type of organized layout.
What is a search grid?
This is how airplanes generate lift.
What is air moving faster over the top of the wing, creating lower pressure above it?
On a CAP service dress uniform, this device worn on the shoulders indicates the wearer’s grade or rank, with cadets wearing a different version than senior members.
What is shoulder boards or epaulets?
The U.S. Air Force defines leadership as this.
What is the art and science of influencing and directing people to accomplish the assigned mission?
This was the first spacecraft launched to explore the outer planets and has now traveled beyond the orbit of pluto.
What is voyager 1?