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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
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Alan Sisson
Christopher Davila This newsletter is created by members of AIAA Houston Section. Opinions expressed herein other
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Cover: Waverider image by Dr. Patrick Rodi. This table of contents page uses

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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
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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.

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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)
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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-
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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)
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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.
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(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
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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
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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
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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