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April 17 & 18, our town plays host to the Cocoa Beach Air Show.

After nine years, it is exciting to have the air show back on our beaches to kick off the Thunderbirds’ 2021 season. Yes, I am biased, but our beaches are the best beaches! We were lucky enough to touch base with Bryan Lilley, the organizer of the Cocoa Beach Air Show, to get some of the details on this year’s event to share with our readers.

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Like I mentioned, it is event season and after this month’s air show, we have May’s Thunder on Cocoa Beach. Explorer magazines is working with Kerry Bartlett and all the great people with Thunder on Cocoa Beach. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of Thunder on Cocoa Beach, contact me (Dougbaker34@aol.com or call 321-759-6064), and I would love to get you info on getting your company involved with this great event.

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SPRING IS HERE! The skies are clear, the temperatures are perfect, and as you can tell by our cover photo, we are headed into event and festival season!! It is thrilling to see events starting to take place again.

Let’s hope this spring continues to usher in new growth for everyone.

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COCOA BEACH AIR SHOW: BACK TO THE BEACH The 2021 Cocoa Beach Air Show to be double headlined by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the F-22 Raptor Demo Team

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MALIK’S MESSAGE

COCOA BEACH UPDATE FROM THE MAYOR

Spring has arrived and blessed us with near-perfect weather as we are past the one-year mark in the Covid pandemic. It is nice to put away the wetsuit and enjoy the warmer ocean waters! As of this report, our local active Covid cases are at 19 within the city limits and three outside of the city limits (Remember, the Florida Today figures are cumulative numbers of Covid cases since March of 2020!). We have Cocoa Beach Fire Department personnel ready to assist our residents in getting Covid vaccines— as we receive supply of the vaccine (please go to our city website or official City of Cocoa Beach government Facebook page for more information).

The newly released Milken Institute rankings for best performing cities ranks our region (Brevard County) as 2nd in the entire nation for strong wage and job growth!! https://milkeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/reports-pdf/Best-Performing-Cities-2021.pdf

CONTRIBUTING WRITER: Mayor Ben Malik

All of the investment in our region from space, high-tech, aviation, and defense industries is creating a job boom in our area with literally thousands of engineers moving into the region. This boom is driving our real estate valuations as well— 48 plus rocket launches a year will do that! A new supersonic passenger jet manufacturer broke ground in Melbourne, FL, representing a $300 million capital investment with over 675 new jobs in our area. https://spacecoastedc.org/aerion-supersonic-starts-development-on-new-headquarters/ City updates: • New playground installed at McNabb (Dempsey Park), Ramp Road playground is scheduled for later this month • New police station construction moving along (3rd steel is at 90%, 2nd floor is next) • Two rain gardens being installed at Woodland and alley near the parking garage • Pool pavilion dock reconstruction is complete and metal benches in parks are being replaced with composite materials (recycled plastic) Thank you for your support and allowing me to serve as your Mayor. Please feel to contact me with any suggestions at bmalik@cityofcocoabeach.com or my cell at 321-794-6668.

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DANCE FOR THOSE WHO BY: O L IVIA RO MANO Although February 20, 2021, was a chilly day in Brevard County, students from Cocoa Beach High School warmed the hearts of many, hosting their Second Annual Dance Marathon benefiting Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Dance Marathon is a movement for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and happens to be the only foundation that ensures 100% of funds are dispersed locally in support of local kids to provide them with crucial medical care. Additionally, the organization is entirely student run, proving meaningful leadership and teamwork experience to the student body.

Cocoa Beach began participating in Dance Marathon in 2019, hosting their first culmination event in February 2020, raising approximately $7,100 for Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Inspired by the lifesaving treatment that the students were able to provide for those fighting pediatric illness, the Cocoa Beach National Junior Honor Society and several upperclassmen representatives immediately got to work at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year to plan their second Dance Marathon.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER: MARK J. RENDELL PRINCIPAL COCOA BEACH JR./SR. HIGH SCHOOL

This year we had a bold goal of raising $10,000 by the end of the event, and despite our small school size, we were determined to reach it. Our students went around the county looking for businesses to sponsor the event, discovering 18 generous businesses willing to donate. Each Dance Marathon participant also set up a donor drive account to raise funds. Aside from fundraising, the Dance Marathon team had to plan the event. A full executive board of students was created, with positions ranging from Dancer Relations all the way to Finance. These students met once a week to ensure the event would go seamlessly. The executive board worked together to design T-shirts, create business sponsor forms, choreograph a dance, and raise awareness around the school and community. The Dance Marathon team chose games and entertainment that met CDC guidelines. The activities were also approved by the Infectious Disease Unit at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

I want to share another example of the selflessness of the student body at Cocoa Beach Junior-Senior High School. Our school recently held a “Dance Marathon” event to raise funds for an area hospital. This is a

After months of planning, on February 20th, Dance Marathon took place. With a busy schedule timed down to the minute, the event began at 4:00 PM outdoors in the commons at CBHS with masks required at all times. Attendees were encouraged to remain standing for the entirety of the event as a sign of respect to the children fighting pediatric illness that are confined to their hospital beds. At the top of every hour, the designated Dance Team taught a line dance to get people hyped up for the hour ahead. Additionally, students watched several Mission Moments, stories from children and parents that received treatment from Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, creating a better understanding of purpose behind Dance Marathon.

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throughout the event. Students also played games, had a lip sync battle, and finished the night off with a socially distanced “rave.” When the event ended at 10:00 PM, awards were given to top fundraisers including Rhys Gallant and Julia Dillon. In total, Cocoa Beach High School fundraised an unbelievable $12,412.47 to save local children’s lives, well surpassing their original goal.

Dance Marathon is an absolutely incredible process creating a movement based entirely on the idea of kids saving other kids lives. The Dance Marathon team at Cocoa Beach High School is proud to dance for those who can’t, changing the lives of children who need it most. CBHS, NJHS, and the upperclassmen representatives would like to give a special thank you to all of their business sponsors*, Nothing Bundt Cakes, and each and every individual who made Dance Marathon possible this year, allowing miracles to be made for the kids, and guaranteeing no child fights pediatric illness alone.

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APRIL 17-18 The Cocoa Beach Air Show will take place along roughly two miles of Cocoa Beach oceanfront, extending from Westgate Cocoa Beach Pier to Minutemen Causeway with Lori Wilson Park serving as show center.

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The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly the F-16 Fighting Falcon and perform a combination of formation and solo maneuvers in an inspiring, patriotic, high energy demonstration. The four-jet diamond performs precision formation flight with the aircraft wingtips as close as four feet apart while performing loops, inverted rolls and even high-performance turns!

The two solo jets perform high energy maneuvers together and from opposite directions closing in on each other as fast as 1,000 mph. The six jets come together in the delta formation as the finale for the show, flying difficult formations and signature breaks that fill the sky with speed, sound and smoke trails!

The F-22 Raptor is the fastest and most maneuverable fighter jet in the world today. The F-22’s twin engines produce more thrust than any other fighter. Combined with its sleek aerodynamic design, this allows the F-22 to “Supercruise” at 1.5 times the speed of sound without using fuel-

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We’re glad to be bringing the show back to the beach at a time where it can help the ailing tourism industry that has been so badly impacted in the past year. Having the double headliner of the Thunderbirds and F-22 Raptor Demo will kick the destination appeal of the Cocoa Beach Air Show into afterburner.

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The 2021 Cocoa Beach Air Show will feature the U.S. Air Force’s top two demonstration teams when it returns to Florida’s Space Coast on April 17-18, 2021.

The Air Force just announced that the F-22 Raptor Demo Team will join the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds to double headline the show. Cocoa Beach will be the kickoff of the Thunderbirds 2021 season.

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Bryan Lilley Chairman of the National Air, Sea and Space Foundation (organizer of the show)

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consuming afterburner. The F-22’s unique thrust vectoring and advanced flight controls allow it to outmaneuver any other aircraft.

The F-22 Raptor demo puts thrust vectoring on full display during its demonstration defying imagination as it climbs straight up, stops in mid-air, then reverses towards the ground before flipping the nose around in a somersault at near zero forward speed. The F-22 makes sharp, sudden turns displacing and compressing air into vapor, and you often see the Raptor creating its own weather system with massive clouds that engulf the jet.

The Valiant Air Command will be adding to the air show with four different warbird aircraft. Featured warbirds include their flagship, the C-47 “Tico Bell” — one of the hundreds of C-47s that flew across the English Channel on D-Day, dropping members of the 82nd Airborne behind enemy lines — as well as a TBM Avenger torpedo bomber, North American SNJ-4 trainer, and an N2S Steerman biplane.

In March, air show officials announced a B-52 Stratofortress long-range bomber has been added to the lineup. Bryan Lilley, organizer of the Cocoa Beach Air Show, shared his excitement of adding continued on page 12 C O C OABE ACHE X PLORER .C OM | 11

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For 2021, the air show is implementing a series of “Stay safe initiatives” to ensure the safety of guests and spectators at the event. These initiatives extend across all the event premium viewing venues which include the Drop Zone Beach, Flight Line Club, and Sand Boxes—a viewing area designed with the at-risk, elderly, and families with small children in mind, to be able to enjoy the air show in their own reserved area of the beach. For additional information

on the Stay Safe initiative please visit the Cocoa Beach Air Show website.

The Cocoa Beach Air Show will be broadcast by a Maryland-based professional livestream crew, offering new aerobatic viewing options during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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It’s a multicamera broadcast. Just like how they cover a football game with a broadcast — we cover an air show like that.

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the B-52 to the show’s lineup. “The B-52 is a big, hulking, eight-engine rarity with a wingspan of 185 feet. The cool thing about the B-52 is its appeal to a broad audience. The first B-52s flew back in the ‘50s, so veterans as well as the guys who like warbirds enjoy seeing them. Young people like it too — it’s big, it’s cool, and it’s loud,” he said.

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Bryan Lilley

“You’ve got a camera covering the action; you’ve got one on the jets, so you can watch what’s going on at the airfield; and you’ve got one on the narrator.

People from the hotelroom balconies and people spread out across the beach can get the narration. Even if you’re not in the Cocoa Beach area, people can attend from around the world,” he said.

VIP and Premium Viewing tickets are on sale now at cocoabeachairshow.com The Cocoa Beach Air Show will kick off this year’s AirDotShow Live Tour that will visit six destinations in 2021 including Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta, Ocean City MD, New York and Orlando. For more information on the tour please visit https://air.show

To say Gabriella Ferra was excited to be part of the flight operations team supporting the USAF Thunderbirds during last fall’s Lockheed Martin Space and Air Show would be a dramatic understatement. The National Air, Sea and Space Foundation, in partnership with the Florida Institute of Technology and AirDotShow, recently announced the 20-year-old aviation student as the first recipient of the Cajun Del Bagno Memorial Scholarship, honoring fallen Thunderbird pilot Stephen “Cajun” Del Bagno.

joining the Thunderbirds in the fall of 2017. He lost his life in a crash during a practice in April 2018.

“I have something in common with ‘Cajun’ in the sense that my interest in flying also started at an early age,” said Ferra. “Ever since my first flight in a small Cessna at the age of four, I fell in love with the idea of making flying a career.

I have definitely drawn inspiration from Cajun’s story and our similar passion for aviation.”

“Given the name that is associated with the scholarship, it meant a lot to be able to meet and work with the Thunderbirds at the show,” said Ferra. “From what I’ve read and been told about ‘Cajun,’ he was an incredible person who proudly represented our country.”

Each year, the Cajun Del Bagno Memorial Scholarship goes to a student in need to help them pursue a future in aviation.

Recipients of the scholarship are selected by those who were closest to Del Bagno – his father, mother, two sisters and two closest friends. Del Bagno started flying when he was 14 and went on to be a corporate pilot, banner tower, skywriter, and flight instructor prior to joining the Air Force. During his 11-year career as an Air Force pilot, he flew the F-16 and F-35, before

Ferra’s movement up the aviation ladder has been incredibly swift.

She worked through her private pilot training as her age would allow, starting lessons on her 15th birthday, before soloing on her 16th birthday and then passing her check ride following her 17th birthday. Presently, Ferra is a commercial pilot with a multiengine add-on and her plans are to become a flight instructor.

The second Cajun Scholar will be announced during the 2021 Cocoa Beach Air Show.

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READER’S CO RN E R Greetings Cocoa Beach Residents: Well, spring is upon us! So wonderful to hear the birds chirping and the flowers blooming.

This month’s reads are pretty diverse and not my usual curl up on the coach books.

My three recommendations this month are a modern-day horror story, a heartfelt memoir where nature, science, and human emotions come together, and a return to the moon by some old favorites.

CONTRIBUTING WRITER: Christiana C. Succar, Ph.D.

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. This horror novel set in Mexico takes the reader on a journey from Mexico City to the countryside home of an Englishman who married the protagonist Noemi’s cousin. Noemi, whose only concerns are what to wear to the next party, is summoned to her cousin’s side in the country for what she thinks is just a brief cheering up. However, what she uncovers about the family, the house, and her fate grips the reader until the end.

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren. Don’t turn your back on science! This incredible memoir documents a female scientist’s journey into geobotany (the study of trees, plants, seeds, and soil). The story follows her career in academia and research through opening three labs across the United States while forging a lifetime friendship, finding love, and raising a family.

Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America’s Race to the Moon by Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. This non-fiction account from first-hand knowledge reminds us of where we started and how far we have come today in our space endeavors to continue our ride into space. Get the raw words from the people who experienced landing on the moon and those standing by on earth. Learn about or refresh your memory about the moon shot years of space.

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