Summer 2012 Issue 4

Tuesday July 3, 2012

Volume CXXXIII Issue 4

Students fear rising loan interest rates Congress decides to take action Alena Thompson Editor-in-Chief

Students feared all weekend if the Stafford loan interest rates would double. Having this increase would double the interest rate from 3.4% to 6.8% causing the average student to pay an average of $1,000 more per year.

The rate of 6.8% is not new; prior to 2007 this was the standard unsubsidized and subsidized rate. In 2007 however, Congress voted to reduce the interest rate to allow more students to go to school. The Bill however was supposed to only last five

years ending in 2012.

Unlike other loans, Federal loans provide loan forgiveness which is comforting for many students. In financial hardship you do not have to pay back your loans until your income is over 150% of the poverty line.

Additionally if you have a public service occupation 10 years or longer all of your Federal Loans will be forgiven. Furthermore, if you are unable to pay within 25 years, your debt is forgiven.

Congress made a last-minute decision Sunday to restrain on doubling the federal-subsidized Stafford loan interest rates with a vote of House vote of 373-52 and a Senate vote of 74-19.

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students to have a sigh of relief for a year however, only for a year. The bill will be reevaluated July 2013 for a revote.

Unless Congress bars the new rates next year, the interest rate will automatically increase hindering many low and middle class families financially.

This temporary relief is not good for all students though.

To offset the costs graduate students will be required to pay interest on loans while they are still

attending school.

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Google tries to compete in tablet market Chris Heale

Managing Editor The Google Nexus 7 is the latest addition to the popular tablet market, designed to compete predominantly with Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Blackberry Playbook.

The tablets’ name refers to its 7-inch size and utilizes the latest Android 4.1 OS (dubbed Jelly Bean), while being produced by Asus.

The device is planned to ship in midJuly and appears to be in direct competition with the Kindle Fire, which has been extremely popular having sold about 4.7 million units during the fourth quarter of 2011.

By comparison, both are priced at $199 and both run on an Android platform.

However the Nexus is lighter at 340 grams compared the Kindle Fire’s 413 grams. The Nexus runs on a 1.3 GHz

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quad-core CPU with 1 GB RAM memory while the Kindle fire has a 1 GHz dual core with 512 MB RAM. But hardware aside, a tablets success will come down to usability and content.

Google play is the preferred online store for its movies, music, games, books and apps, and has been recently added as a tab to the Google homepage.

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Female pilots secure top-10

Delta IV Heavy thunders into space

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Two new additions for the Nexus 7 will be a front facing 1.3 MP camera and the ability to share photos between two devices, by simply ‘tapping’ them together.

While Apple remains a clear leader in the full size tablet market with the iPad, the popularity of small tablets such as the Fire, Nook and others prompts the question of a future Apple foray into this market.

But Apple will soon face competition to the iPad from its more traditional heavyweight rival Microsoft, who plan to release their tablet, Surface, in the fall.

Whatever the future of the tablet market, all of the big names companies are getting involved. There is sure to be plenty of consumer choice and selecting the best one may come down simply to a matter of interface preference.

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Female Pilots Secure Top-10 Finishes in Historic Air Race Classic Melanie Hanns

Press Release Batavia, Ohio – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University pilots earned two Top10 finishes and won best overall collegiate team after competing against more than 50 teams of all-women pilots this past week as part of the cross-country Air Race Classic.

The Daytona Beach, Fla., campus flight team – consisting of Marisha Falk and Danielle Erlichman – was No. 1 in collegiate and finished second overall in the competition, while the Prescott, Ariz., campus team of Kristine Anthony and Marlene Wessel was third in collegiate and ninth overall.

“This year’s race was an incredible experience, and it was great to see some of the amazing women I met in previous races,” said Falk, who participated in the race twice before in 2008 and 2009 and is now a flight training manager at the Daytona Beach campus and driver of the Embry-Riddle Jet Dragster. “It was an honor to represent Embry-Riddle in such a prestigious event among some of the best women pilots in the world.”

This year’s race began June 19 at Lake Havasu City Airport in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., and took female pilots through eight cities on a 2,681-statute-mile route ending June 22 at Clermont County Airport in Batavia, Ohio.

This was the first Air Race Classic event for Erlichman, a student pursuing a B.S. in aeronautical science and a part-time flight instructor.

“One of the most valuable things was the experience,” Erlichman said. “I learned a lot about mountain flying and about flying over all different types of terrain. And of course the traveling to all of those different places.”

Prescott team co-pilot and flight instructor Kristine Anthony said, “I am just so excited and proud to represent the Prescott campus.”

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Kristine Anthony, Marlene Wessel, Danielle Erlichman and Marisha Falk all smiles with a best overall collegiate team as they pose for a victory photograph at the post-race celebration banquet.

Anthony’s co-pilot Marlene Wessel is earning a bachelor’s degree in aeronautical science at the Prescott campus.

“As a first-time racer, I am very happy with our outcome of receiving ninth place overall and third collegiate,” said Wessel, who plans to compete in next year’s Air Race Classic.

“It has been an amazing experience, exploring the country and getting to know so many other women pilots. We made our own decisions and are proud of ourselves. Kristine and I had a great time in the cockpit and wouldn’t have done it any other way.”

This year the racers made stops at Gallup Municipal Airport in Gallup, N.M.; Hereford Municipal Airport in Hereford, Texas; Renner Field (Goodland Municipal Airport) in Goodland, Kan.; Columbus Municipal Airport in Columbus, Neb.; Watertown Regional Airport in Watertown, S.D.; John F. Kennedy Memorial Airport in Ashland, Wis.; Chippewa County International Airport in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.;

and Southwest Michigan Regional Airport in Benton Harbor, Mich.

The Embry-Riddle team members were chosen for their piloting skills, competitive spirit and knowledge of aviation, safety, navigation, meteorology and crew resource management. Both teams flew Cessna 172 aircraft from the university’s fleet, equipped with a Garmin G1000 cockpit.

Each aircraft was judged against its own handicapped cruising speed, and winning teams followed the route as closely as possible while improving their average speed, a format that focuses more on piloting skills and decisionmaking than on speed.

The female pilots competed against professional aviators as well as teams from nine other collegiate teams including Jacksonville University, Kansas State University, Liberty University, Louisiana Tech University, Metropolitan State College of Denver and Purdue University.

ERAU Wins at International UAV Comp.

Bob Ross

Press Release Three teams from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University scooped up a handful of top awards at the 2012 Student Unmanned Air Systems (SUAS) competition held June 13-17 and collected $12,600 in prize money to fund new designs for unmanned aircraft. SUAS is sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI).

The university’s teams, two from the Daytona Beach, Fla., campus and a third from the Prescott, Ariz., campus, were the largest contingent in the annual event, which drew 29 teams from U.S. and international universities.

The annual competition challenges students to design and fly an aircraft for a mission requiring autonomous flight, navigation of a specified course and use of onboard cameras.

Students also submit technical journal papers and make oral presentations.

Team UARE (Daytona Beach campus); advisors: Charles Reinholtz, professor of mechanical engineering, and Eric Coyle and Patrick Currier, assistant professors of mechanical engineering; placed 1st in the Journal paper, 3rd in the Mission, 10th for the Oral and 5th overall and also won the Dr. Arthur Reyes Safety Award.

“AUVSI competitions challenge students to develop state-of-the-art unmanned systems that solve real problems, including fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs and ground, surface and underwater vehicles,” Reinholtz said. “I’m proud that Embry-Riddle fields more robotics

teams in these premier events than any other university, and our teams are always among the top competitors.”

Team Blackbird (Daytona Beach campus); advisor: Richard Stansbury, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering; placed 20th in the Journal paper, 13th in the Mission, 8th for the Oral and 12th Overall.

During the competition, Justin Paterson, a student on Team Blackbird, enthused: “It’s what we’re going to be doing in a couple of years. It’s airplanes, it’s flying and it’s all about getting to know all those systems. There’s so many different designs that even if we don’t

succeed, somebody else is, and we can learn from them.”

Team Awesome (Prescott campus); advisor: Ray Bedard, associate professor of aeronautical science; placed 22nd in the Journal Paper, 8th in the Mission with an honorable mention, 20th in the Oral and 13th Overall.

“We are so proud of what our team accomplished,” Bedard said. “Despite a catastrophic loss of their primary vehicle before the event, they built two replacement aircraft over the weekend, tuned and prepped them, and went to the competition on schedule. Overcoming adversity is a key component to education.”

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Six Eagles Receive Academic All-America Honors Michael Pierce

ERAU Athletics Embry-Riddle had six individuals named to the Capital One College Division Academic All-America womens track & field/cross country team on Monday, including seniors Beatrice Enckell and Julie Mayfield, juniors Breanna Goring and Karina Coelho, and sophomores Kristina Kendrick and Ellie Staker. The Capital One Academic All-America College Division womens track & field/cross country team is comprised of student-athletes from the NAIA, Canadian and two-year institutions as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. wEnckell, a senior hurdler from Karlshamn, Sweden, was one of three Eagles to earn first-team honors. Enckell was a three-time All-Conference performer this year, placing second in the 400m hurdles and third in the 4x400m relay and triple jump. Enckell, a 3.94 student majoring in Business Administration, also earned All-American honors at the

NAIA Indoor National Championships as part of the seventh-place 4x400m relay team.

Mayfield, a senior middle distance/ cross country runner from Ormond Beach, Fla., also earned first-team honors.

Mayfield was a first-team All-Conference performer with a third-place showing at The Sun Conference Cross Country Championships in November, helping the Eagles to their sixth straight league title. A 4.0 student majoring in Homeland Security, Mayfield was also a part of the fifth-place 4x800m relay team at the NAIA Indoor National Championships, earning All-American honors in the event.

Kendrick, a sophomore sprinter from Washington, Penn., was the only underclassmen, male or female, to earn a spot on the first team. Kendrick was a twotime All-American at the NAIA Indoor National Championships in March, finishing third in the 600m and seventh in the 4x400m relay. Kendrick is majoring in Aeronautical Science and currently holds a 3.84 GPA. Goring, a junior hurdler from Ocala, Fla., was the lone ERAU

representative on the second team.

Goring earned All-Conference honors in four separate events this year, including the 4x100m relay (3rd), long jump (3rd), 100m hurdles (2nd) and triple jump (1st). At the NAIA Indoor National Championships in March, Goring was a part of the 4x400m relay team that finished seventh, earning All-America honors. Goring is a 3.64 student majoring in Human Factors Psychology.

Coelho, a junior middle distance/cross country runner from Chesapeake Beach, Md., earned a spot on the third team.

Coelho was the second runner to cross the line at The Sun Conference Cross Country Championships in November, earning All-Conference accolades. She was also a four-time All-American during the 2012 track & field season, finishing fourth in the 1000m and fifth in the 4x800m relay at the NAIA Indoor National Championships, as well as placing third in the 4x800m relay and seventh in the 1500m at the NAIA Outdoor National Championships. Coelho is majoring in Applied Meteorology and currently holds a 3.46 GPA. Staker, a

sophomore middle distance/cross country runner from Seattle, Wash., also earned third-team honors. Staker placed fifth at The Sun Conference Cross Country Championships, receiving All-Conference honors for her effort.

Staker earned a total of five AllAmerican accolades this season, including the 1000m, 4x400m relay and 4x800m relay at the NAIA Indoor National Championships, in addition to the 1500m and 4x800m relay at the NAIA Outdoor National Championships. Staker is a 3.84 student as an Aerospace Engineering major.

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from the Flight Department to the following students for receiving their: Private Pilot Certificate: Alain Paul Desnoyers Alan Michael Penton Alex Thomas Blymire Ghandi Romeo Pazmino Aguilar Sigmund Benvic Baretto Michael Chas Schmieder Hady Mustafa Eltokhy Rifat Mansur Tory Jack Roth Christopher Louis Galione Justin Michael Beaupre Seth Everitt Bartosik Justin William Harttraft Thomas Winston Chretien Mustafa Yalin Demirelli Private Multiengine Add-On Rating: Malik Saeed G Othman Abdullah Hassan A Nassar

Instrument Rating Certificate: Eric Jacob Adler Harold Alberto TrujilLo Patrick Andrew Geiger Brandon Joseph Parker Frank Joseph Nosek Evelyn Christina Bunk Christopher James Hutto Brandon Joseph Parker Sean Patrick Mullen Casey Daniel Walker Francisco Joseph Gonzales Shane Michael Spivey Brothers Ajay Raghavendra Joshua Kim Anthony Joseph Randazzo John Colin Schmotzer Cristina Michelle Stowell Alonso Trevor Garrett Gorton Zachary Aziz Khan Travis Michael Bellows Matthew Scott Duggan Jacob Robert Avery

Commercial Pilot Certificate: Justin Payce Marcus Christopher Michael Bogliole Nicholas John Helbert Valdeta Mehanja Tyler L. Markel Derryl Alexander Davis Zachary Lee Dieman Joshua Allen Hughes Luke Alden Buckett Tarah Sylvie Ernest Jordan Dale Heuerman Nancy Hanna Snyder Harsha Migara Fernando Sebastian Muenzer Lauren Elizabeth Mccall Michael Bradley Huber Colleen Marie Williams Darwin Joaquin Hernandez Abrams Ryan Gregory Mizgorski Chase Andrew Michaletz Commercial Single Engine Add-On Rating: Abhishek Rajul Chowdhari Vincent Michael Ricciardi Commercial Multiengine AdD-On Rating: Jmoo Seok Kim Kangsik Kim Nathan Wayne Shaffer Flight Instructor Airplane Certificate: Marc Emiliano Gonzalez William Do Adrienne Elizabeth Smith Da Hyun Shim Flight Instructor Instrument Certificate: Prachi Rajni Shah John Charles Fremont VI Mateo Arias Carl James Sorg Flight Instructor Multiengine Certificate: Nicholas John Di Nardi Brandon Matthew Sackett Jacob Kirk Smith

Aerospace News ERFSEDS launches in rocket competition

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Matthew Ellengold Staff Reporter

Last week, the Embry-Riddle Future Space Explorers and Developers Society (ERFSEDS) successfully competed in the 8th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) hosted by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) in Green River, Utah. This was ERFSEDS third year entering the competition and they found themselves facing a wider field of competitors than ever before, including schools from five US states as well as Canada and Brazil. Also among the teams was a group from our sister campus in Prescott, Arizona. Students from the two campuses used this opportunity to share each other’s work and experience, trading stories and contact information so that the two clubs may take advantage of each other’s resources in future endeavors.

ERFSEDS students designed two rockets for this year’s IREC to perform in two

levels of competition. Pathfinder IV flew in the ‘Basic’ category requiring successful launch and recovery of a 10 lb payload carried to 10,000 ft above ground level (AGL). Meanwhile, the powerful two-stage Artemis I Mk. II flew in the ‘Advanced’ category, requiring the same size payload to reach 25,000 ft AGL. Unfortunately, while both rockets performed spectacularly through ascent and apogee, extreme winds aloft carried them beyond the range of visual or radio detection, making full recovery impossible.

Only the Artemis I first stage was located. Despite feeling some disappointment at not recovering all of their hardware, ERFSEDS students understand that in engineering, more is learned when things don’t go as planned. Unknown unknowns become known, and the lessons learned are incorporated as improvements to the next design iteration. It is with this level of determination and positive attitude that ERFSEDS begins planning for next years IREC. “We’ve held to some conservative

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design principals in the past to get our footing” said a club spokesman, “but we’re taking more risks now, pushing our limits. We expect to take some losses doing this, but this is a good direction.

We’re learning more than ever which can only lead to even greater success in the future”.

For more information on the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association and Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, check out www.soundingrocket.org.

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Pathfinder IV (ABOVE) and Artemis I Mk. II (left) blast off from the Utah desert at the 8th ESRA IREC.

Atlas V launch marks 50th EELV flight Richard Weakley

Photography Editor A United Launch Alliance Atlas V carrying the NROL-38 satellite lifted off on time at 8:28 AM EDT on June 20, 2012 carrying a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.

This Atlas V launch vehicle was in the 401 configuration, with a 4 meter diameter fairing, no solid rocket boosters and one RL-10A engine on the Centaur upper stage. The first stage of the launch vehicle, also known as the Common Core Booster, has a Russian built RD-180 engine producing 933,400 pounds of thrust in a vacuum at a specific impulse of 338 seconds. The RD-180 has two nozzles, two combustion chambers and a single turbopump unit. The propellant is liquid oxygen and RP-1 (refined petroleum).

This launch marked the 50th flight of

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an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV). The EELV program of the United States Air Force (USAF) was started in the late 1990’s to replace costly legacy launch systems, and to continue assured access to space. The USAF requirements detailed a need for liquid core vehicles, standardized payload interface and infrastructure and processing designed to maximize efficiency. The Boeing Delta IV and Lockheed Martin Atlas V were selected in October 1998 to provide launch services from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California under the EELV contract. In December 2006, the Boeing and Lockheed Martin launch teams merged to form the United Launch Alliance Company with the Atlas V, Delta II and Delta IV launch vehicles. The 50 launches to date have included Department of Defense satellites, NASA missions and commercial satellites.

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Richard Weakley

Photography Editor On June 29, 2012 at 9:15 AM EDT a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy launched the National Reconnaissance Office’s (NRO) second satellite in nine days to orbit.

The NROL-15 mission was delayed one day from the June 28 due to Tropical Storm Debbie creating adverse weather conditions.

On June 29, a launch time of 6:13 AM was established which would have placed lift off between civil twilight and sunrise. Four minutes from this launch time, countdown was halted due to a voltage limit that was tripped when the vehicle was transferring to internal power. Engineers soon determined this limit was not set at a proper value and the limit value was adjusted. A new launch time was then set for 6:50 AM, the pre-flight poll was conducted again and the vehicle was cleared for launch. Four minutes from this launch time, the countdown clock was stopped when the computer detected an issue with the upper stage liquid oxygen fill and drain valve not closing within a 10 second time period. After manually cycling the valve, it was determined that the value was operating nominally and the countdown was reset to the four-minute hold for a new T-0 of 7:59 AM. At 3 minutes, 9 seconds to the 7:59 AM launch time, a hold was called yet again due to hydrogen fill and drain valve on one of the Common Booster Cores not closing. After cycling the device five times, the launch team determined the valve was ready for flight.

Finally a new launch time was set for 9:15 AM EDT and the countdown proceeded without any further issues to a breathtaking lift-off of the country’s most powerful launch vehicle with 2.1 million pounds of thrust.

The pitch and roll programs were executed flawlessly 15 seconds after lift-off for the vehicle to proceed downrange. At 4 minutes,

8 seconds into flight, the port and starboard Common Booster Cores expended their fuel and were jettisoned from the still-firing center Common Booster Core. The center Common Booster Core continued to fire for the next 90 seconds. At 5 minutes, 40 seconds into flight, main engine cutoff occurred and the first stage was jettisoned seven seconds later.

At six minutes into flight, the upper stage RL10B-2 stage ignited with the three-part payload fairing being discarded approximately 40 seconds later. After this point, no further real time information was released due to the classified nature of the mission. Later in the day, ULA and the NRO declared the launch a complete success.

The Delta IV Heavy launch vehicle is comprised of three Common Booster Cores strapped together, a cryogenic upper stage and an extended payload fairing. The Common Booster Core is an element common to all Delta IV vehicles with an RS-68 main engine fed by liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen tanks. The assembled vehicle is 235 feet tall, which is taller than the retired Space Shuttle of 184 feet tall. The port and starboard Common Booster Cores are approximately 165 feet tall.

This flight marked the first launch of a Pratt & Whitney RS-68A engine, which provides 702,000 pounds of thrust, which is 39,000 more pounds of thrust than the original RS-68 engine. When at full throttle, the three engines on the Delta IV heavy consume three tons of fuel per second. During hot-fire tests of the engine, the RS-68A was run for 4,800 seconds cumulatively, 10 times longer than would be required for flight. The RS-68A engine has an eight-foot diameter nozzle built by ATK. The next launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida is a ULA Atlas V 401 carrying NASA’s Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission on August 23 with a launch window of 4:08-4:28 AM EDT.

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Established in 1995 in Winter Park, Fla., Tijuana Flats is a unique, fast-casual Tex-Mex dining experience featuring superior guest service and fresh, madeto-order food. Tijuana Flats has more than 80 locations in Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The restaurants are typically found in high-traffic areas and average 2,200 square feet.

Since the restaurant first opened its doors in 1995, Tijuana Flats has used zero trans-fatty acids (TFA) cooking oils, 100 percent hormone free, white meat chicken, fresh produce and all

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ORLANDO, Fla. (June 25, 2012) — Satisfying starving stomachs is something Tijuana Flats does on a daily basis.

But today, the the 82+ restaurant chain is giving starving artists, and other creative types, the opportunity to do more than stuff themselves with tacos and queso.

Now through July 15, the Smack My Ass & Call Me Creative T-shirt Contest gives Tijuana Flats fans the opportunity to exercise their creativity and submit an original design that aligns with the restaurant’s brand.

“Tijuana Flats follows the ‘anything goes’ approach to food, wall art, hot sauce and life in general,” said Director of Marketing and PR, Ashley Montgomery.

“We love the unexpected and strange. If guests can imagine it, we’d love to see it in the form of a T-shirt.”

By simply submitting their design via the contest application on Tijuana Flats’ page on Facebook, they will have the chance to win a $100 gift card, 10 of the winning T-shirts, hot sauces and, most importantly, bragging rights, as the winner will have their design displayed in the location nearest them.

Winners will be determined by a panel of judges who will review all the submissions and vote on which best meet the judging criteria. Designs will be evaluated based on creativity, originality and how well they align with the Tijuana

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