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By Elaine PaniszczynWhen Carrie Dawson was about

10 years old, her dad, Stewart Dawson, bought a Hawker Fury FB.11, a Brit-ish airplane made to take off and land on an aircraft carrier. Fast forward about 20 years to Valentines’ Day 2014 to when the aircraft, nicknamed “Spirit of Texas,” was the centerpiece at the rehearsal dinner for Carrie’s wedding at Frontiers of Flight Museum. She married Captain Cuyler

Halpin, a U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot, Sat., Feb. 15 in Dallas.

Carrie got her pilot license when she was 24, and she flies small planes. Her fa-vorite is her dad’s Decathlon, a two-seater, small aerobatic airplane. She met Hal-pin at an air show where she was selling Bombshell pinup calendars.

“At that time, I was in the calendar,” Carrie said. “He came up and bought some and asked me on a date, and the rest is his-

tory.”Halpin’s mom came up with the idea to

have the rehearsal dinner at the museum with the Sea Fury as the backdrop for the event.

Carrie’s mother Averille Dawson is also a pilot. She said the Sea Fury is her hus-band’s “girlfriend.”

“He and his mechanic that helps him take care of it, and was instrumental in its restoration, are the only two who fly it,”

Averille said.“You’ve got to be on top of it, Carrie

added.“It’s a tailwheel plane instead of tricycle

gear, which is always more difficult,” Aver-ille said. “It’s got a lot of horsepower, so it can get away from you really quick. You’ve got to have an experimental aircraft rating to fly it—a Sea Fury rating. For a Mustang or Spitfire or a Corsair—all of those, you

Plane’s legacy continues with rehearsal dinner

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Stewart Dawson, and his wife Averille and daughter Carrie clean the Spirit of Texas which became the centerpiece to Carrie’s wedding rehearsal dinner on Valentines’ Day. / Photo by Elaine Paniszczyn



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n TheftFeb. 11, 1:41 p.m.

An airline passenger service representative reported that her cell phone was stolen at Terminal B, gate17. She said she was on the jet bridge assisting passengers exit the plane when she placed her white Samsung Galaxy S3, with a black and pink cover and fake diamonds, on the control panel. After the passengers and flight crew exited the plane, a male Air Serv worker walked past her and entered the plane, she said.

She turned her attention away from her cell phone to di-rect crew on the AOA to begin maintenance. She turned back around to document the time on her cell phone and noticed the Air Serv worker had exited the plane and was almost back to the top to the ticket counter. She noticed her phone was missing and ran up the jet bridge to confront the man, but he had left the area. She walked back down to the plane and searched the area but could not find her phone. When she returned to the ticket counter, the AirServ employee had re-turned and was standing by the counter. She asked if he had seen her phone. The man told her he did not have her cell phone and immediately left the area. About the time the offi-cer was getting a description of the man, she saw him walking by. The officer questioned him. He said the lady told him she had found her phone. When told the cell phone had not been located, he said he did not have it. He was listed as a suspect. Value of phone and case: $414.


Hertz Rental Car Company reported on Jan. 10 that a ve-hicle was rented on a credit card that was later discovered fraudulently used. The vehicle has not been returned. Value: $44,511.

n Attempted TheftFeb. 11, 2:50 p.m.

A Hertz Rental Car employee said she was attempting to assist a female subject who had reserved a vehicle through the Internet. The subject made the reservation with an option that gave her access to the vehicle without any interface with Hertz personnel. The vehicle that she reserved was locked with the keys inside, which caused the woman to seek assis-tance. She was attempting to access another vehicle by using an unmanned kiosk when the Hertz employee saw her and of-fered help. The employee had the subject approach the Hertz counter and asked for her identification and a credit.

The subject presented a credit card and a paper Texas driver’s license with the same name as the name on the rental

reservation. The Hertz employee placed the credit card under an ultraviolet light but did not see any latent security iden-tifiers on the card and became suspicious. She looked at the temporary driver’s license with an expiration date of Jan. 30, 2015. At this point, the subject grabbed the credit card and driver’s license and walked out of the front door of the Rental Car Center. The suspect was approximately 6 feet, 2 inches tall with a very slender build, red hair and wearing a hoodie that was too short for her. The employee was able to see a tattoo on the lower abdomen of the subject. A computer check on the name on the Texas license, revealed a person of that name but with a different birth date and a physical description of 5 feet, 4 inches and 125 pounds. When the owner of the DL number was told that someone was attempting to use a prob-able fraudulent credit card with her name, she asked if it was a tall, red haired female. She explained that she suspected her boyfriend’s former girlfriend was the person using the credit card. She described the suspect as 6 feet tall with red hair and multiple tattoos and said the woman could be identified with specific names tattooed. She also gave names of others who might be involved in the event.

n PossessionFeb. 12, 4:08 p.m.

Officers went to Customs to investigate a piece of alumi-num foil containing a white piece of paper found in the sec-ondary screening of a male passenger. The man, who was returning home from a trip to Costa Rica, said the paper had LSD on it. An officer tested the paper for LSD and it came back positive. Continuing the search, a pocket scale, a wooden box containing a cigarette like hitter with marijuana residue in it and a sucker that had a sticker “Cookie by Cookie” were found. The traveler was put into the Customs holding cell and later arrested for the possession of LSD.


A man reported his Dick’s Sporting Goods gift card was taken from the center console of his vehicle, which he left with an airport valet at Terminal C, Section B. The man said Dick’s Sporting Goods Corporate said that three unauthorized charges were made on the card between Jan. 23 and Jan. 27. He said there was no more money left on the card, which ini-tially had $500 on it.

n Tampering with Governmental Record Feb. 13, 7:42 a.m.

An officer was dispatched to Baker North AOA gate in refer-

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DFW POLICE REPORT TSA WEEK IN REVIEWn Live Explosives Discovered in Anchorage- A homemade avalanche control charge was discovered in a carry-on bag at Anchorage (ANC). FBI respond-ed and arrested the passenger.n Firearms Discovered This Week – Of the 26 firearms, 21 were loaded and three had rounds chambered. n Artfully Concealed Prohib-ited Items – A bullet was discovered in the sole of a shoe at New York Kennedy (JFK).A belt buckle knife was discovered at San Jose (SJC).n Stun Guns – 16 stun guns were discovered this week in carry-on bags around the nation. Two were discovered at LaGuardia (LGA), two more at Kansas City (MCI), and the remainder at Billings (BIL), Borinquen (BQN), Washington Dulles (IAD), Cleveland (CLE), Fayetteville (FAY), Las Vegas (LAS), Los Angeles (LAX), Chicago Midway (MDW), Minot

(MOT), Minneapolis - St. Paul (MSP), Phoenix (PHX), and Tucson (TUS).n Airsoft Guns – An Airsoft gun was discovered in a carry-on bag this week at Honolulu (HNL).

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ence to a suspicious person. During a routine ID check, a Texas driver’s license appeared to be fraudulent. The expiration date was 2018 and appeared to have been made with a softer type of plastic and had started to separate at the corners. The driver li-cense number was valid but was suspended in 2013 with no re-newal. The person who presented the fraudulent driver’s license said he needed to work and his state issued driver’s license had expired. His temporary visa status was also expired. He said he got the fraudulent driver’s license from some place in Fort Worth a long time ago and was unable to give more information. He was arrested for Tampering with Governmental Record.

n Burglary/Vandalism Feb. 13, 8:15 a.m.

A maintenance worker at Bear Creek Golf Course said he un-locked the golf shed, which is attached to the Livewell Center, and saw one golf cart had been slashed with a sharp object and all four tires were punctured. Somebody had written, “Thanks for the quality service.” Total estimated damages: $4,900.

n Criminal Mischief Feb. 13, 8:41 a.m.

At Bear Creek Golf Course somebody damaged two putting greens and a tee box. Suspect(s) used the flagpole on the Hole

9 putting green to punch six holes into the turf. Estimated damage: $100. On Hole #10 it appeared suspect(s) used a golf cart to do donuts on the putting green. The grass and hole cup were also damaged. Repair cost: $100. Two tee markers from the tee box on Hole 11 were tossed into the creek. Value: $100. Persecution will be sought.

n Public IntoxicationFeb. 16, 7:50 p.m.

Officers went to Terminal A, gate 10 in reference to a bel-ligerent, possibly intoxicated, passenger onboard an aircraft. The man was unsteady on his feet and spoke very loudly as he exited the aircraft lavatory, in the rear of the plane. His speech was so slurred officers could not understand what he was say-ing. He accompanied officers off the aircraft, and they tried to talk to him in the jet bridge where he became loud and began cursing repeatedly saying, “F**k.” Officers asked him multiple times to refrain from cursing as women and children were still exiting the aircraft, but he refused to comply. He smelled of alcohol and he had bloodshot eyes. He said he was going to sue the officers and continued to curse at them. When asked if he had been drinking alcohol and he replied, “No.” Later, he said, “I had a couple of beers. What the f**k does it matter?” He was arrested for Public Intoxication.

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By Elaine PaniszczynDallas-based Navy pilots

and other crew members of the Lockheed P-3C Orion spoke to school children about the engineering as-pects of the aircraft during Engineers’ Week at Frontiers of Flight Museum Tues., Feb. 18. Topics included the aeronautics behind the tur-boprop engines and other systems of this sophisticated, four-engine weapons system.

“The aircraft has been in service for about 50 years,” said Bruce Bleakley, director of the museum. “The design is from the late 50’s, and it is the military version of the Lockheed Electra Airliner.” He said the Cuban Missile Crisis was one of its first major missions. “The RF8P and the U-2 are the planes that found the missiles were there. What the Orion did was to patrol and search for incoming, re-supplying Rus-sian ships that were bringing more missiles into Cuba.

“Its first use was as a Mar-itime patrol aircraft,” Bleak-ley continued. “There are a lot of things that involves. Submarine hunting is one of them. The submarine hunter version does carry anti-sub-marine weapons. One of the big advantages of the aircraft is that it can stay in the air 15 hours or so.” He said the P-3C is now also used for electronic surveillance.

“The reason that we want-ed these guys to talk about the airplane during Engi-neers Week was for the tech-nology end of it–not so much the mission,” Bleakley said. “The airplane is remarkable because it has a lot of capa-bility and uses turboprop en-gines, and that was one of the things that I wanted them to

explain to the kids. “A turbo prop engine has

a jet engine driving a propel-ler,” Bleakley said. “What that does is to combine the best of both worlds–the intensity of a jet engine which is much less complicated than a pis-ton engine and gives more power for the weight. Having a jet engine driving the pro-peller gives you (the) instant control response the propel-ler gives you.”

A Navy flight engineer with about 8,000 hours in the P-3C talked about the workings of the Orion’s pro-peller and engine and some of its past operations.

“It’s old, but I enjoy flying in it,” he said. “A P-3 is ca-pable of sustaining flight on two engines with no problem at all. These aircraft are pretty stout. They can take a lot of abuse. It’s obviously proven by how old the aircraft is, and it’s flying around just fine.”

He showed a photo of a crew that successfully landed sometime in the 1980’s after having a prop go off speed, spin a little fast and starve it-self of oil before going out of control and causing huge vi-brations for the aircraft. The prop separated from the air-craft and took the reduction gear box along with it.

The engineer said people question why the U.S. mili-tary continues to uses these prop planes versus jets. He said the aircraft is used for ASW (anti-submarine war-fare), search and rescue and running up and down the coast, sustaining low level flights (in order to watch) shipping movements.

“With a prop, when I give it gas, it creates imme-diate lift,” he said. “A jet has to speed up to create its own lift, so it might take a few minutes, and you might not have that time before you hit the water.”

He said another reason is fuel consumption.

“I wouldn’t say 5,000 pounds an hour is great, but for an aircraft, that is great,” he said. “You can shut down one or two of those motors and save gas.

“I’ve been on station where we’ve had to shut down two (engines) to track a drug cartel going into the U.S.,” he said. “We were waiting for the Coast Guard to cut them off. The Coast Guard had a few hours to get there, so we maintained 16 hours of flight that one time.

We had engines one and four and the outboard motors shut down. We just trailed along and watched (the drug runners) the whole time un-til the Coast Guard was able to intervene and take them out.”

Bleakley described how the turbo-prop combination works.

“The propeller works at a constant rpm (rotations per minute),” Bleakley said. “Un-like a regular piston engine, where you push the throttle

forward (and) the propeller goes around faster and gives you more power, when you push the throttles forward on this particular aircraft, the propellers keep rotating at the same speed but the blade angle changes and they take a bigger bite out of the air and (it) gives you more pow-er and gives you more thrust that way.”

Bleakley said the Orion is versatile, tough and durable.

“That’s the advantage of a jet engine driving a propel-

ler,” he said.The engineer said, “The

P-3C has four T56-14 Al-pha motors made by Allison rated at 4,600 shaft horse-power, 13,820 revolutions per minute, and then it goes into the RGB (reduction gear box) and it breaks it down to 1,020, so it spins our prop about 1,020 revolutions per minute.”

Some of our allies includ-ing Japan, Canada, Australia, and Korea also still fly the P-3.

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Over 50 years after being put into service, the P-3 Orion aircraft is still used by the Navy to protect U.S. borders. / Photo by United States Navy


By Jess PaniszczynGiven 20 file folders and

a roll of duct tape per group, more than 50 middle school girls from Dallas, Irving, Lancaster and Richard-son ISDs were challenged to work collaboratively and quickly to meet an engi-neering challenge. During “Introduce a Girl to Engi-neering Day” hosted at Exx-onMobil’s Irving Headquar-ters, the girls needed to think like engineers in order to build the rollercoaster which would carry a marble for the longest period of time. This challenge was one of two hands-on experiments de-signed to demonstrate real-world applications of science, technology, engineering and math.

One of the event’s lead-ers, Laura Divel, a Financial Analyst and Securities Trad-er for ExxonMobil, hoped the Feb. 19 experience would encourage young women to

consider engineering and re-lated career fields.

“The girls come to learn about engineering: what type of opportunities there are in it, how important science, technology, engineering and math, those STEM fields, are and just to open their eyes to see what possibilities are open to them in the fu-ture by studying really hard in science and math,” Divel said.

“We are letting them ‘test drive’ engineering by doing these experiments.

“I really want the girls to know first of all that women are doing engineering. This is a field women can pursue and women have successfully pursued in the past,” she said. “I think the minorities and women in general in engi-neering need to be support-ed, and know that while men might dominate the field right now, women are com-ing up in the ranks.

“I hope they learn, first of all, women can do this; sec-ond of all that they can do this. An engineering career, even an engineering edu-cation—focusing on those STEM skills—really opens up a lot of opportunities. They can do really interest-ing things and really help the world. Engineers make a huge impact on our society.

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Thinking like engineers, Katie Jenkins from Robertson Middle School in Lancaster works with Jennifer Flores and Natalie Castillo both from Irving’s Bowie Middle School (lft to rt) to construct a marble roller coaster. / Photo by John Starkey


By Jess PaniszczynImagine for a moment the

perfect princess party: arriv-ing in a horse drawn car-riage, escorted by the bravest knights in the land; waiting in anticipation of your ap-proach are footmen, jesters and of course all of the prin-cesses of the surrounding kingdoms, especially Snow White.

Once inside the magnifi-cently appointed ballroom, all ladies are greeted with their own magic wand, while the handsome gents of the realm receive newly minted swords. For the amusement of those gathered, music is played by both a harpist and a DJ. Amid the candles and flowers, those who be-come peckish after a dance or two can visit the hotdog, taco, bar-b-que or macaroni and cheese stations. Dessert consists of cake for everyone, ‘poisoned’ apples courtesy of a wicked queen, Queen of Heart tarts, cotton candy, lucky star cookies and a can-dy bar.

So it was that seven-year-old princess Savannah and her brothers, who served as brave knights, fulfilled the wish of a lifetime. Make-A-Wish North Texas and the Professional Wedding Guild (PWG) of Fort Worth worked together to create Savannah’s one true wish in Fort Worth’s Texas & Pacific transit station on Feb. 18.

“It is beautiful, and it is more than I had imagined,” said Andrea Tirhi, Savan-nah’s volunteer wish granter. “I think Savannah is pretty excited about it too. She was definitely part of the plan-ning. We gathered ideas about her favorite princess characters, favorite foods, favorite music and incorpo-rated all of it into this event. We are going to get a lot of

pictures tonight, and I am going to put a book together, so that will help her remem-ber this for a really long time.

“I think the elegance of everything is amazing. This is a party I can’t even imagine having had at seven. It is just absolutely gorgeous. It looks like a wedding reception. Every single thing she asked for is in this room. It is awe-some that it came together so well.”

Savannah battles a hema-tologic disorder and last Sep-tember received a stem cell transplant which included a bone marrow donation from her older brother.

“This is Savannah’s wish,” said Lucia Bitnar, PWG event committee member. “She had the stem cell re-placement. Her brother, Cameron, was the donor. To know that they have come through that, and for her to want to have a huge princess party, and for us to pull that off is just magical. Seeing her pull up in a carriage was phe-nomenal. We did everything based on what she wanted in her wish.

“Her favorite cake is yel-low, so her cake is yellow. She likes hotdogs, so we did a hotdog station. She likes popcorn, so one of the favors is popcorn. We have a craft area for them to play, make wands, do puzzles and stuff.”

Savannah’s entire fam-ily has been affected by her illness. Make-A-Wish and PWG took extra care to en-sure the event was enjoyable for the whole family espe-cially her brothers (one older, two younger).

“I am overwhelmed, be-cause I am really just happy for her,” said Savannah’s mother, Tiffany Greer. “I think this is something she is going to remember for a very

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As she takes the first bite of her special cake, Princess Savannah receives a loving hug from the biggest, boldest and bravest King there ever was, her daddy. / Photo by John Starkey

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long time. It is something that she has always wanted.

“She is able to share this experience with her siblings, and they are sharing it with her. They are all together, and they are happy. She is a wonderful big sister, and the greatest little sister. She is the strongest person I know.

“The people at Make a Wish are wonderful people. They are doing something wonderful, not only for my

daughter, but for children ev-erywhere. This is something I could never have imagined for her. It is just beautiful.”

The princess party was more than a celebration for Savannah. It had originally been planned by PWG as a recognition event for the Fort Worth Make-A-Wish volunteers.

“The Professional Wed-ding Guild (PWG) is an association of wedding pro-fessionals in Fort Worth: florists, event coordinators, wedding planners, makeup artists, etc,” said Jennifer Trotter, a PWG and Make-

A-Wish volunteer. “We de-cided to gather our resources and throw a charitable event for volunteers of Make-A-Wish who normally don’t receive a lot of fanfare. They just volunteer out of the goodness of their hearts. The resources all go to the wish children; they don’t go to the volunteers.”

A long term supporter of Make-A-Wish, Trotter wanted the PWG volunteers to have the experience of watching a child receive her wish.

“It is a magical experience to watch a wish being grant-

ed, so we turned the event into a princess party,” she said. “We are all dressed up as princesses to make it more special for her. So PWG and the Make-A-Wish volun-teers are all together granting Savannah’s wish tonight.

“It’s a magical environ-ment in there: the flowers, the décor. All of us came together to make it really beautiful. I think watching Savannah pull up in that car-riage and the look on her face when she saw all the prin-cesses: you literally can’t even describe it. I had chills from head to toe. I am so excited.”

LAS VEGAS — A Henderson, Nevada man was indicted on Feb. 19 by a federal grand jury for aim-ing a laser pointer at a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) helicopter on six occasions during January and Febru-ary 2014.

James David Zipf, 30, is charged with six counts of aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft on Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 3, 7, 8, and 12, 2014. If con-victed, Zipf faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 on each count.

“Congress enacted a new federal statute in 2012 deal-ing with laser strikes, which makes it a felony to know-ingly target an aircraft with a laser,” said U.S. Attorney Bogden.

“We have partnered with our local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to catch individuals who are engaging in this dangerous behavior, which can disori-ent and temporarily blind a pilot. If you have informa-

tion about a lasing incident or see someone pointing a laser at an aircraft, call your local FBI field office or dial 911.”

Since the FBI and the Federal Aviation Adminis-tration (FAA) began track-ing laser strikes in 2005, statistics reflect a more than 1,100 percent increase in the deliberate targeting of aircraft by people with handheld lasers. In 2013, there were a total of 3,960 laser strikes reported—an average of almost 11 inci-dents per day.

This case is being in-vestigated by the FBI and LVMPD, and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Roger Yang.

The public is reminded that an indictment contains only charges and is not evi-dence of guilt. The defen-dant is presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

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During the fairest party in the land,

the beautiful princesses

of the realm including Snow White, Princess

Savannah and her mother,

the lovely Fairy Princess, dance the night away./ Photo by John Starkey

PRINCESS Continued from Page 5

Man charged with aiming laser pointer at helicopter

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F-35B Aircraft fly in close formation

NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md. – Two F-35B aircraft fly in close formation while in short takeoff/vertical land-ing (STOVL) mode for the first time last week. Pilots Peter Wilson and Dan Levin flew the test jets in STOVL mode, also known as Mode 4, with the F-35B LiftFan engaged and engine rotated downward.

The mission measured the effects the aircraft had on each other while in Mode 4 to ensure they can operate in formation safely in an op-erational environment. The

U.S. Marine Corps plans to declare Initial Operating Capability with the F-35B next year.

The F-35 Lightning II is a 5th generation fighter, combining advanced stealth with fighter speed and agil-ity, fully fused sensor infor-mation, network-enabled operations and advanced

sustainment. Three distinct variants of the F-35 will re-place the A-10 and F-16 for the U.S. Air Force, the F/A-18 for the U.S. Navy, the F/A-18 and AV-8B Harrier for the U.S. Marine Corps, and a variety of fighters for at least 10 other countries.

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have to take a check ride to fly.”Most decommissioned military aircraft

are designated as experimental.“A jet fighter pilot who had only flown jets

would not be able to fly a Sea Fury,” Stew-art said. “It has the wheel on the wrong end. Modern jets have a nose wheel. Most (jet pi-lots) couldn’t taxi this thing to the end of the runway. You have to use your feet on pedals on the floor of the cockpit that are the plane’s rudders and brakes. They’ve never flown any-thing like this, so they just don’t know. It’s quite different from an airplane with a nose gear.”

Stewart went to work at the Longview/Gregg County Airport when he was 15 and never left.

“I pumped gas and serviced airplanes,” Stewart said. “I started flying there.”

Part of his pay he bartered for flying les-sons.

“I did everything in the world to learn how to fly,” Stewart said. “I started out on a little bitty Cessna 150. I kept going—kept flying. I flew cargo, freight and mail in the old DC-3’s.”

Then, he flew 737’s for Southwest for 21 years and retired to play with his big toys,

including the Sea Fury. Stewart also has a Cessna 185 and an F-1 rocket that he built.

“We’ve had 310’s; we’ve had Navahos,” Stewart said. “We’ve got a Decathlon and a T-6. Our whole family flies—my wife and both kids.”

“There is nothing Sea Fury about this anymore except the fuselage,” Stewart said. “Everything has been modified. That’s what makes it experimental.

“The only thing British on this airplane now is the airframe,” he said. “Everything else has been changed. It’s got a Curtis Wright 3350 engine on the front of it; a propeller off of a Sky Raider; P-80 wheels and brakes. We built the hydraulic and electrical systems; we changed the tail; we’ve changed everything.

“We raced it at Reno for 12 or 13 years,” Stewart said. “Its engine blew up three years ago during a race.”

Dawson said there was just eerie quietness as he glided the aircraft back to the airport where he was able to land it safely. Stewart is still racing, but in a Bearcat that belongs to a man in San Antonio.

“(In the Sea Fury) I qualified at Reno one year at 443 mph,” Stewart said. “I’ve qualified in Rare Bear (a Bearcat) at over 490 mph. It will run faster than that.”

Stewart has won silver and bronze at Reno.“That is the only unlimited race,” Stewart

said. “That means you can race anything that

you bring as long as it’s got a piston engine on the front of it. These planes were never type certificated. They can’t be. They were military.”

Carrie said she loves the aircraft.“It’s amazing, and it’s so much fun,” Carrie

said. “It’s fast, and he’ll take you low to the ground.”

On Valentines’ Day, the Spirit of Texas was at her rehearsal dinner—just another member of the family.

PLANEContinued from Page 1

At Frontiers of Flight Museum, Stewart Dawson stands on the wing of his Sea Fury he had just flown into Love Field. / Photo by Elaine Paniszczyn

By Bob BurnsWhile it’s understandable

that travelers want to lock their baggage to protect their personal belongings, it’s also important to understand that TSA officers must be able to inspect baggage and contents when the need arises. That’s where TSA recognized locks come in.

In order to ensure the safe transportation of travel-ers, TSA screens all checked and carry-on baggage before it is permitted to be brought onboard commercial air-craft. Technology generally enables us to electronically screen bags without open-ing them, but there are times when TSA officers need to physically inspect a piece of luggage. TSA worked with several companies to develop locks that can be opened by security officers using uni-versal “master” keys so that the locks may not have to be

cut. These locks are available at most airports and many travel stores nationwide. The packaging on the locks in-dicates whether they can be opened by TSA.

In some cases, TSA of-ficers will have to open your baggage as part of the screening process. If your bag is unlocked, then officers will simply open and screen the baggage if any item alarms. However, if you decide to

lock your checked baggage and TSA cannot open it through other means, then the locks may have to be cut. For soft-sided baggage, this process will not damage your zippers or zipper pulls. TSA is careful to not damage any personal belongings, how-ever, the TSA is not liable for damage caused to locked bags that must be opened for security purposes. Again, that is where the value of the recognized locks come in. Please note that if an officer does need to open your bag, a “Notice of Baggage Inspec-tion” will be place in your bag.

While TSA officers may have to cut locks from time to time, it’s not the only reason your lock could be missing or damaged. Locks, along with your baggage, can also be damaged by airport conveyor belts.

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TSA-recognized locks protect luggage and travelers

Certain locks have been designed with TSA collaboration, which can be opened by TSA officers should the need arise. / Courtesy photo


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The retreat of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is dimin-ishing Earth’s albedo, or reflectivity, by an amount considerably larger than pre-viously estimated, according to a new study that uses data from instruments that fly aboard several NASA satel-lites.

The study, conducted by researchers at Scripps In-stitution of Oceanography, at the University of Cali-fornia, San Diego, uses data from the Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System, or CERES, instrument. There are CERES instruments aboard NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mis-sion, or TRMM, satellite, Terra, Aqua and NASA-NOAA’s Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellites. The first CERES instrument was launched in December of 1997 aboard TRMM.

As the sea ice melts, its white reflective surface is replaced by a relatively dark ocean surface. This dimin-ishes the amount of sun-light being reflected back to space, causing Earth to ab-sorb an increasing amount of solar energy.

The Arctic has warmed by 3.6 F (2 C) since the 1970s. The summer mini-mum Arctic sea ice extent has decreased by 40 percent during the same time pe-riod. These factors have de-creased the region’s albedo, or the fraction of incoming light that Earth reflects back into space – a change that the CERES instruments are able to measure.

Scripps graduate student Kristina Pistone and climate scientists Ian Eisenman and Veerabhadran Ramanathan used satellite measurements to calculate Arctic albedo changes associated with the changing sea ice cover. Al-bedo is measured as a per-centage. A perfectly black

surface has an albedo of zero percent and a perfectly white surface has an albedo of 100 percent. The albedo of fresh snow is typically between 80 and 90 percent whereas the albedo of the ocean surface is less than 20 percent. Clouds and other factors, like aerosols and black carbon, also influence the albedo of Earth.

The researchers calculat-ed that the overall albedo of the Arctic region fell from 52 percent to 48 percent between 1979 and 2011. The magnitude of surface darkening is twice as large as that found in previous stud-ies. They also compared their results to model simulations to assess the capability of computer models to portray and forecast albedo changes.

Previous studies have used a combination of com-puter models and observa-tions in their calculations to estimate how much extra energy has been absorbed by the oceans.

In contrast, the Scripps team opted to directly cor-relate albedo measurements made by NASA’s CERES instrument data with ob-servations of sea ice extent made by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) radiometers aboard Defense Meteorological Satellite

Program satellites. This ap-proach avoided the possi-bility of systematic issues in computer models.

“It’s fairly intuitive to expect that replacing white, reflective sea ice with a dark ocean surface would increase the amount of solar heat-ing,” said Pistone. “We used actual satellite measure-ments of both albedo and sea ice in the region to ver-ify this and to quantify how much extra heat the region has absorbed due to the ice loss. It was quite encourag-ing to see how well the two datasets – which come from two independent satellite instruments – agreed with each other.”

The National Science Foundation-funded study appears in the journal Pro-ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 45 years after atmospheric sci-entists Mikhail Budyko and William Sellers hypoth-esized that the Arctic would amplify global warming as sea ice melted.

“Scientists have talked about Arctic melting and albedo decrease for nearly 50 years,” said Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps who has previously conducted simi-lar research on the global

dimming effects of aerosols. “This is the first time this darkening effect has been documented on the scale of the entire Arctic.”

Eisenman, an assistant professor of climate dy-namics, said that the results of the study show that the heating resulting from albe-do changes caused by Arctic sea ice retreat is “quite large.” Averaged over the entire globe, it’s one-fourth as large as the heating caused by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the same period.

The NASA dataset used in this study consists of a merging of CERES data and measurements from the Moderate Resolution

Imaging Spectroradiom-eter (MODIS) instrument, which flies on two of the same satellites as CERES -- namely the Terra and Aqua satellites. MODIS is able to distinguish between clouds and sea ice, which have similar brightness. This capability helps improve the accuracy of the CERES al-bedo readings, said Norman Loeb, CERES principal in-vestigator.

“By exploiting the unique capabilities of simultane-ous CERES and MODIS measurements, the NASA satellite data enable studies on how albedo is changing with unprecedented detail and accuracy,” said Loeb.

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