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Trey Henderson/The Avion Newspaper A long exposure view of the sunset Falcon 9 launch on the evening of Fri., March. 4. The mission launched the SES-9 communication satellite into a geosynchronous orbit.

The Falcon Flies

Trey Henderson Senior Reporter It is 6:05 p.m., March 4. The countdown clock reaches T-minus 30 minutes until liftoff of SES-9, a commercial communications satellite aboard SpaceX’s thirty-six Falcon 9 Full Thrust Rocket. SES-9 is designed to provide phone, radio and Internet access to isolated areas of eastern and southern Asia. As the clock continues past T minus 30 minutes, propellant loading of super-cooled, “densified,” liquid oxygen and RP-1 kerosene is just beginning. The negative 340-degree oxidizer exhibits a very narrow window of opportunity for SpaceX as slight temperature variations mark the threshold between solid oxygen and non-densified propellant, either of which could wreak havoc on the finely tuned Merlin 1D engines. The clock reaches T-10 minutes, and oxidizer valves slam open, flowing densified liquid oxygen up to the Merlin turbo pumps in a process known as engine chill. This engine chill process is critical as systems are prepared for launch. Extreme cold temperature oxidizer flowing through relatively hot piping into the engine could cause

bubbles, pressure issues and pump cavitation on engine start. As the feed lines cool to more than negative 300 degrees and the vehicle fueling process comes to a close, range officers and launch controllers are reviewing final vehicle data. At T minus two minutes, the Air Force Range Safety Officer gives final approval indicating that the launch range is go for launch. The launch readiness poll is conducted by the SpaceX Launch Director, and as all launch systems are verified go for launch, the Launch Director issues the final go for Falcon launch. T minus one minute and counting, the Falcon 9’s flight computer is checking thousands of parameters to ensure that the vehicle is in good health and all conditions are met for liftoff. With all checks indicating green, the clock enters the last ten seconds. At T minus three seconds, the nine Merlin 1D engines begin their startup sequence; gallons of densified liquid oxygen and chilled RP-1 flow into the combustion chamber and the engines roar to life, rapidly throttling to 100% power and each producing more than 150,000 pounds of thrust.

As each engine is confirmed producing 100% power, the final check before liftoff is complete and the massive holddowns are released. The Falcon climbs off the pad under the force of more than 1,000,000 pounds of thrust. At two minutes and thirty six seconds into flight, the nine first stage engines shut down and the second stage is jettisoned from the first stage booster. Eleven seconds later, the second stage’s single, Merlin 1D Vacuum engine ignites to complete the rest of the mission. Burning for an additional six minutes and fourteen seconds, SES-9

and Falcon’s second stage are now at orbital altitude. For 16 minutes the pair coast through space until the Merlin 1D Vacuum is reignited for the final burn of the mission. 48 more seconds places SES-9 in a perfect geostationary transfer orbit. Meanwhile, viewers around the world are waiting with baited breath for the results of Falcon’s first stage landing attempt. Soon, Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and founder, announces that the booster “landed hard,” likely indicating a complete loss of the stage, as expected. The high altitude of the unique, geostationary transfer orbit left little maneuvering propellant

for the first stage’s drone ship landing attempt. While the failed landing marks yet another in SpaceX’s list of unsuccessful attempts, the mission is regarded as a 100% success with SES-9 being placed in a better-than-ideal orbit. The orbit which SES-9 was placed during the mission will reduce the expected transit time required by the satellite from 90 days to only 45. SpaceX’s next planned mission, CRS-8, an ISS commercial resupply mission aboard the SpaceX Dragon capsule, is scheduled for a March 29 liftoff at 8:29 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Trey Henderson/The Avion Newspaper The Full-Thrust Falcon 9 launched from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station

DAB Airport Drill Jaclyn Wiley News Editor In the early hours of the morning on Wednesday, March 2, emergency response personnel from all around Florida gathered at Daytona Beach International Airport and were greeted by the sight of an aircraft lying in multiple pieces past the end of Runway 34 by Richard Petty Blvd. This was not an air disaster that greeted them, however. It was the airport’s triannual live emergency response drill. Steve Ward, an Airport Operations Agent at DAB, helped to plan the event and acted as an evaluator. He explained, “Every three years, we have to do a real drill. Every year, we have to do at least a table-top drill, but every third year we have to do a live drill. You have to have so many live people or mannequins,” said Ward. The airport carried the cost of the event, having budgeted $30,000 for the live drill. Continued on A6 >>

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Jack Taylor/The Avion Newspaper The seats in the Willie Miller Instruction Center were filled to capacity Tuesday night as Caladh Nua performed tradiational Irish music.

Brenna Freeman Chief Engineer of WIKD On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University welcomed the esteemed traditional Irish band Caladh Nua to campus. Pronounced Coll-ah NooAh, which means new harbor or new haven, this five piece has mastered a variety of instruments of which most members play more than one. Lead singer, Lisa Butler, has been playing fiddle since she was eight years old. The lead fiddler, Paddy Tutty, is also highly talented at the bodhran. The bodhran, pronounced bow-rahn, is a handheld, framed drum with a skin stretched over the top. It is struck using a tipper, a double ended drumstick that is held in the middle. Brian Mooney plays the banjo and the bouzouki, a longnecked instrument that looks like the bigger cousin to the mandolin. The guitarist, Caoimhin Ó Fearghail, is also a self-taught

cally clapped along on multiple occasions. The concert was highly interactive with opportunities for audience participation. Caladh Nua taught the audience how to since and pronounce the chorus to their song, “Cad é sin don té sin,” which translates to “since it’s no one’s concern, no one should care.” Humorously, this song was about a man who wants to live his life as he pleases. Furthermore, the band took the time to introduce each song, sharing little anecdotes about each piece so that the concert was a snapshot of Irish culture and traditions. Caladh Nua was incredibly cohesive. Very few groups seem to perform this closely as one unit, but also, manage to spotlight each instrument and musician. There was an interesting bodhran solo that showcased the different sounds and tones of such a simply constructed instrument and the audience, and band alike were enraptured whenever Ms. Butler sang. Her voice was incred-

ibly beautiful and clear as it conveyed mischief, joy, and sorrow in both English and Gaelic. One of the best parts of the night was that the band had just about the same amount, or possibly, even more, fun than the audience. Caladh Nua continuously moved along to their music, released an occasional hoot or holler when the tempo picked up and even laughed at their jokes. When they finished their set, they received standing applause. After the concert, the band held a meet and greet where they could sign CDs, converse with the audience on a more personal level, and offer pronunciation and singing tips. This free concert, open to the public, by Caladh Nua, was a special treat that helped to bring greater understanding and cultural appreciation to the Daytona Beach area. It was a mini vacation to Ireland that, for students, allowed them to relax and forget about midterms, even if just for one night.

Campus Safety Offers Safety Advice for Spring Break Jamie Gonzalez Campus Safety

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flutist and singer. Last, but certainly not least, is the button accordion player, Derek Morrissey. According to Dr. Geoffrey Kain, director of the Honors Program, which held the concert as part of an Honors Series, the phone had been ringing off the hook for information on these talented musicians. People from all over Volusia Country, and even one attendee traveled 3 hours from Palm Beach, FL, were inquiring about how to obtain one of the coveted 350 seats in the Willie Miller Auditorium located on campus. These chairs were in such high demand that when the lights dimmed to begin the concert, every space was filled. In the simplest of terms, Caladh Nua played delightful music that was foot-tappingly, all around good fun, also know in Ireland as craic (krak). They presented a variety of tunes, such as Irish dance reels, jigs, and polkas that were enjoyable and engaging. The audience enthusiasti-

Spring break is suddenly upon the ERAU campus community! Where did the time go? Spring break signals a lot of traveling for our students to various party beaches and island destinations around the world. For spring break, Safety & Security would like all of our students to enjoy themselves, but also to become familiar with the local laws and regulations of the areas they will be visiting. Be very careful about the activities you partake in, sometimes things can get out of hand, and you may find yourself in “hot water” (and we don’t mean a Jacuzzi either).

There are predators that visit these areas during spring break because they know there will be many vulnerable college age students during this time. Protect yourself by traveling in groups and looking out for one another. Watch carefully for opportunities for identity theft. Remember that contacting your parents regularly will help them feel more comfortable. Know the people you hang around with and don’t accept any open containers from people you don’t know. Have a great time, but be safe. For those students who will be remaining on campus during the break and are inviting visitors here, it’s important to note you’re

responsible for their behavior and actions while here. Take the time to inform your visitors about ERAU’s policies so that everyone is safe and has a great time. Previously, I told you that possessing a fake ID is a serious crime. Abusing alcohol can also have serious consequences. Here’s a word from our campus Med Club; Safety & Security appreciates them every day for the service they provide us! Did you know that coffee does not “sober up” a drunken person? The only thing that can sober up a drunken person is time. Alcohol poisoning is a very real possibility for anyone overindulging in alcohol. If someone you are with is experiencing

altered consciousness, slowed respiration (less than 12 times per minute) or stops breathing for more than 10 seconds at a time, looks asleep and you are unable to wake them, skin is cold, pale clammy bluish or purplish, these are all symptoms of alcohol poisoning. This is a medical emergency. Call 911, or if on campus, call Safety! Be a real friend. Information on how to help a friend with a drinking problem is available at ERAU Health Services. Campus Safety & Secuvrity will be glad to see you all back home safe and sound on March 21. As Director Mannix always says, it’s in your interest.

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Jack Taylor/The Avion Newspaper Embry-Riddle students get splashed with multicolored paint during the wild PaintU event Friday night. Hosted by Touch-N-Go and WIKD 102.5, PaintU is a paint party conbined with loud electronic dance music. Students enjoyed the exciting rave and left with smiles and lots of paint smears.

Jaclyn Wiley News Editor The usually quiet West Lawn was anything but that on Friday night when Touch-N-Go and WIKD partnered up to bring PaintU to Embry-Riddle. PaintU is a production of GlowRage, a company based out of Pensacola, FL, that specializes in providing an unforgettable experience with music, paint and lasers. This

year’s event is the second time that Touch-N-Go and WIKD 102.5 brought PaintU to Embry-Riddle. GlowRage “is an international paint party and EDM tour,” according to their website. “EDM” stands for electronic dance music, which blared while dancing event patrons were soaked with multi-colored neon paint. This paint was washable, which was lucky for the student participants, who

were blasted by paint cannons and pump blasters by DJs on stage, as well as by their fellow students. Paint bottles were handed out to the first hundred students, which they used to spray their fellow students. Before the event, Touch-N-Go and WIKD also handed out t-shirts, sweatbands, sunglasses, and glow sticks. Sariah Adviento, a Staff Photographer for the Avion Newspaper, attend-

ed the PaintU event. “I was there for an hour and a half… there was a lot of adrenaline going around… the event was really fun.” She continued, “the MC was really awesome, and his stage presence was great… the cameras really added to the hype!” The cameras were those of other Avion photographers. Another Avion staffer at the event was Andrew Bronshteyn, who is a freshman studying

Aerospace Engineering “The rave party was very exciting,” he said. “It was a great way to get messy!” Brianna Pyatt, a freshman studying Aeronautical Science, was interviewed after the event. “It was a lot of fun! The music was awesome, and the water guns with the paint were really cool.” Alex Lee, also a freshman, said, “The rave hosted by Riddle was great for introducing students on

campus to EDM. Many of the ravers left covered in paint and all with smiles on their faces. The campus chose an excellent group to run the rave and had many students looking forward to another in the future.” To find out more about PaintU, go to www.paintu. org. For more information about Touch-N-Go or WIKD’s upcoming events, visit their pages on ERAU Connections, which can be accessed via ERNIE.

Google Car: Self-Driving Car Faces Legality Issues Kevin Ratzel Correspondent The Google car has garnered a lot of attention lately as the future of autonomous vehicles; this is in part because Google has been immensely transparent in their efforts to intertwine a self-driving vehicle into the hectic rush hour. However, Google is far from revolutionary in this endeavor. Tesla, an automaker owned by Elon Musk has released

it’s “autopilot” feature to its Model S. But even before Musk and Google even pondered the idea of driverless cars, a man named William Alden in the 50s and 60s came up with a concept he dubbed StaRRcar. The StaRRcar was a public transport idea that used cars on tracks that a user would hail with a button at a stop (I imagine in today’s world, an app or the internet could be used for this). Once the car rolled up, you would hop

in, sit back, and relax. The car would follow a set of tracks parallel to the roadway. The legalities are strikingly similar to today’s Google car issues with who is at fault in the case of an accident, in light of Google’s recent announcement that for the first time, a Google car was at fault in a collision. The StaRRcar combated this with recommending drivers register and insure themselves, and carry that in the car, so the driver would be

responsible for the car while they are inside it, and the company would be responsible for the car when no occupant was in the vehicle. Google has combated this problem with making the operator responsible at all times and insuring and registering themselves since it would be a private, not communal car. Funding was originally what stopped the dream of StaRRcar since the only funding Alden received was his personal

account and one government grant. Funding is less of an issue with the Google car due to the fact it’s being backed by one of the largest technology companies today. So how does Google plan to combat the same issues the StaRRcar ran into? For one, Google does not require a separate track or fixture to operate, it would integrate into traffic and act much like any other driver would. Other factors that differentiate the two autono-

mous cars is the way they are viewed. StaRRcar was viewed very much like a personal train car or a train-like personal bus; Google aims to sell these very recognizable cars to individuals with all the luxuries and comforts Americans have come to expect in an expensive vehicle. I will be very interested in seeing how Google overcomes the roadblocks (no pun intended) in its path, learning from the past and progressing to the future.

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A College Student’s Guide to Establishing Credit

Andy Lichtenstein Editor-in-Chief

Establishing good credit while still in school is necessary for financial success later in life. Credit is a direct representation of your ability to be trustworthy with another entity’s money. Without a strong financial backing, independence will be a challenge for years to come. Your financial status will be used to acquire a car loan or mortgage. It may even be a required component for securing that dream job. According to Fred Williams, Senior Reporter at CreditCards.com, the average US adult has $5,540 in credit card debt. This article will explain how to stay above water. Take heed and you will succeed! 1) Research your options for a first credit card. You will certainly be at a disadvantage if you have limited credit. This is okay. Consider this your opportunity to establish

history prior to finding full-time employment, or buying a vehicle once you graduate. Your options for acquiring a card will likely be limited to becoming an authorized user on your parent’s account. Finding a means to open your own account is difficult, but by no means impossible. If you are part of the lucky bunch, expect a very low credit line with no benefits. You may be able to get 1% cash back, but beggars can’t be choosers. Count your blessings and be thankful that someone trusted you with a $300 credit line. This is exactly what I started 0\ with when I turned 18. The Capital One Journey card is just one of many cards marketed for the college consumer. Many require limited credit and have no annual fee. These cards will undoubtedly have a higher Annual Percentage Rate (APR); however, this should not factor into your decision if you pay your bills on time and in full.

When you apply, the credit company will ask for your current income and monthly spending. Some companies will simply take you at your word, without asking for a paystub. It may be socially acceptable to “over-estimate” your income, as long as you remain financially sound. I would not advocate this, but if this method sets you up for success, without causing undue trouble with the credit company, some may be inclined to look the other way. Do not apply for more than two or three cards at a time. Everytime you apply, the vendor will conduct a “hard inquiry” on your credit history. Too many inquiries may indicate financial trouble on your behalf. This may be entirely incorrect, but perception is reality. If you are still unsuccessful, you can apply for a retail card or a secured credit card. Secured means you will pay a deposit prior to receiving the card. In the event you cannot pay your monthly bill, the company may

cancel your card, and use your deposit to pay the outstanding balance. 2) Use your card for occasional purchases. Using a credit card has its rewards, but you can easily end up with a bill in excess of what you can afford. Use your card sparingly. Try to keep your monthly spending within 30% of your total credit line. Once you establish a higher credit line, try to keep your expenses within 10%. Credit usage is almost as important as paying on time. Of course, do not buy what you cannot afford. A credit card is not a vehicle to finance larger expenses. 3) Above all, pay yoxur bills on time and in full. “People buy things they do not need, with money they do not have.” I forgot where I read this, but it certainly holds true with our generation. Do not make multiple payments in one month. Similar to applying for multiple cards, this could create

perceived credit issues. When your bill arrives, certainly do not expect a reminder from them. Pay the entire statement balance immediately. This inevitably will save you the embarrassing and damaging mistake of forgetting to pay your bill. The company wants you to be late so they can charge a 30% premium and a late fee, on top of what you already owe. A late payment will also stay on your credit report for 7+ years. Mean? Perhaps. Unfair? Not really. Pay your bills. 4) Do not under any circumstances sign for your friends. It’s a trap! This can only end badly for you. If it means you hurt a friend’s feelings, so be it. Stay away from this like the plague. 5) Check your credit regularly. As a consumer, you are entitled by Federal law to a copy of your annual credit report. This is different from your credit score. The three major credit bureaus include TransUnion, Experian and Equi-

fax. The credit reports from each should be similar. If something appears puzzling, file a challenge immediately. Some cards like Capital One’s Journey Card come with a complimentary Credit Tracker. This allows the user to view recent inquiries, available credit, credit utilization, on-time payment percentage, and your oldest credit line. 6) Do not cancel your card or let it go dormant. You will eventually want to upgrade to another card with greater benefits. In the eyes of a lender, your oldest credit line speaks volumes about your credit history. If you have a credit card from 5 years ago, and are just now thinking of upgrading or acquiring a second card, do not let the original card go dormant. Certainly do not cancel it. Doing so could put all of your hard work in establishing good credit at risk. Use your card to buy lunch once in a while, or simply use it to pay for recurring transactions like iTunes or Netflix.

Daytona Holds 75th Annual Supercross

Zach Fedewa/The Avion Newspaper At Daytona Speedway’s 75th annual Bike Week Supercross race, Justin Bogle, #14 in the lineup of 22 for the final 20 lap race, rounds one of the last few corners before the finish line. His average lap time was 1:09, which was just 3 seconds behind that of winner, Eli Tomac, with 1:06. Ryan Dungey, who came in second place, was just split seconds behind Tomac for a photo finish.

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Continued from A1 >> The drill scenario was described in the handouts given to participants and observers. These handouts were produced by DAB event organizers. “While attempting to perform a routine landing (5 mile final) on Runway 34 (south end approach) to DAB, Westbiz Flt.7631 announces over the radio to DAB ATC that someone is attempting to gain access into the aircraft’s cockpit (loud bangs can be heard over the radio from the intruder). The cockpit crew advises that they are declaring an emergency and have been instructed by ATC to proceed direct to DAB. DAB ATC immediately declares an Alert II with the a/c less than 4 minutes out. Once notified, DAB ARFF upgrades the alert from the Alert II to an Alert III. As the Westbiz 7631 is on its two mile final, loud noises can be overheard over the cockpit radio with screaming from multiple people.” The handout continued, “The aircraft appears to be somewhat in distress on its final approach and does not land normally, The a/c overshoots the RWY 34 threshold as it proceeds to just north of taxiway November before touchdown and continues at high speed braking past the 16 threshold, on to the runway safety area overrun then plows through the inner airport perimeter fence and

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the outer airport perimeter fence finally coming to rest halfway on airport property and halfway on the south side of Richard Petty Blvd. The a/c as observed by DAB ATC broke into three (3) pieces and is displaying heavy smoke.” The first responders on

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the scene were the DAB Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) trucks, which immediately began to spray down the wreckage of the plane. This special fire-fighting foam is sprayed on the burning parts of the plane in the event of a real crash, and was used in the drill for the sake of verisimilitude. The next responders on the scene were local law enforcement officers and emergency response personnel. Deputy Chief John McCormick of the Daytona Beach Fire Department was present at the drill and described his department's role in the drill. "Fire suppression units came in to assist with the airport crash trucks," said McCormick. He added that the Daytona Beach Fire Department came to, "help deal with patients and any other kind of hazard." Though the firefighters have emergency medical training, they are not

Billy Nguyen/The Avion Newspaper Emergency personnel from multiple Daytona Beach deparments were present for the drill, practicing their response for a real life incident.

directly affiliated with the EMS. Deputy Chief McCormick stressed the importance of inter-agency cooperation. "An event this big needs multiple agencies to make it successful... one agency can't handle an event like this." Chad Bullock, the Emergency Management Coordinator for Campus Safety and Security, described the goal of the first responders at the event “the main response is life, safety, and extinguishing the all the fires.” The responders at the event were all very professional and experienced. Steve Ward has, “actually done eight [airport drills]. This is my fourth one here, and I was

invited to Orlando Sanford International Airport three times to observe and evaluate and then I was also involved with one at Brunswick Airport in Georgia a few years ago." In addition to emergency response personnel, there were members of the Red Cross present. Ray Parkhurst, the Disaster Program Manager for Space Coast Chapter of the Red Cross, led the Red Cross contingent at the drill. This group was made up of 10 volunteers, who had received, “extensive training in the areas of specialty, wherever they decide to go into, like the logistics or the mass care, which is our sheltering.”

Rachel Dooley/The Avion Newspaper Daytona Beach Fire Department personnel rescue a mannequin from the wreckage of the fuselage of the drill plane.

He continued, “We respond to these disasters; we’ll either provide canteening or we will actually help set up a Family and Friends Reunification for those affected by disasters… For this event, we are providing a canteening support for the first responders, so by that, we’ll be helping serve them lunches and things like that. In this case, the airlines aren’t participating, so we won’t be setting up a Family and Friends Reunification.” The Red Cross also provides mental health help for affected peoples. Another group that provided mental health to the simulated victims of the exercise was the Florida Crisis Response (FCR) Team. Sue McIlrath was the leader of the group of representatives from the FCRT. “We are here for the victims, to defuse them from the incident. We’re also here for the survivors, who have lost someone in the accident, and also here for the first responders at the end of the incident,” she said, explaining the role of the FCRT at the event. The FCR Team is a group of volunteers that is “made up of peers from all modalities,” as McIlrath explained. “We are all very well trained. We’ve all taken an extensive training in disaster relief, critical incident stress management; we use the Mitchell Method, the NOVA method, psychological first aid, depending on the incident. We are part of a national group. Some of us are part of the Florida Crisis Consortium, which is the state group that does the same thing.” Since terrorism was suspected as a factor in the crash, the FBI was present, in the form of representatives. The first respond-

ers would most likely not know about the terrorist, in this situation. When asked about the reason for this, Chad Bullock, Emergency Management Coordinator for Campus Safety and Security, replied, “Our officers probably wouldn’t be involved with looking for any terrorist activity, because they may not even be aware of it; that would be communicated between ATC and aircraft, [the information] wouldn’t have the time to get passed on to our officers.” This information was eventually disseminated to the police, who arrested the suspected terrorist within a half hour of the crash. At the end of the drill, all of the agencies and emergency personnel gathered for a “hotwash.” A hotwash is a discussion and evaluation of the agencies and emergency personnel's’ actions during the emergency. Additionally, the evaluators, like Ward, "have an FAA form we fill out, and we're going to use that form, myself and about a half a dozen other people, and we're going actually to do an evaluation of everything that goes on and then submit that to the airport… They do a debrief in about a week or two.” At this debrief, the drill personnel will go over the events, looking for what went well and what did not. “There’s always little glitches, but they’ve never had a problem where it was a total failure, nor has any of the other airports I’ve gone to had any incidents or accidents or any problems,” attested Ward. The next live drill at DAB will take place in 2019. For more information about DAB, visit their website at www.flydaytonafirst.com.

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Once the main responders from the county and city come in, we would actually back out and let them take it over. We would go back to protect our campus.

because we would be on patrol when we would hear things going on. We would also hear it over the radio because we monitor Daytona Beach Police Department, so we would hear activity and our officers would respond to assist

in the initial response as much as possible. Once the main responders from the county and city come in, we would actually back out and let them take it over. We would go back to protect our campus.” “Once the main responders from the county and city come in, we would actually back out and let them take it over. We would go back to protect our campus.” “We would definitely put out a RAVE to notify the campus community of anything that’s going on… We would ask everyone to stay in their location, not come over [to the crash] and impede in any emergency response, but not a lockdown. The Flightline would definitely be shut down, in a real event. In a real event, I don’t think the campus would feel any great impact from anything.” “In a real event, our officers would probably be staged back on Richard Petty and be keeping anyone from heading this way. They would not be allowed to come up here and take pictures like they are for this drill. They

wouldn’t be allowed this kind of access.” The UCF Daytona Beach Campus Nursing Program was represented at the drill by a group of student volunteers that were led by Nursing Instructor Debra DiChiara. DiChiara and the drill organizers worked together to create a valuable learning experience for her students, and for the emergency responders since the “victims” understood the injuries that they would theoretically have. DiChiara described the collaboration between the Nursing Program and the drill participant organizations. “For months, we have been meeting with EMS, and they’ve been meeting with the students, and giving them instructions on the type of injuries they would have... and how those injuries would appear, what kind of symptoms people would have if they had those injuries. They’ve done some research about that. They’ve also been assessing what type of response there is to those injuries, whenever the emergency medical services people arrive. During the drill, the

A firefighter trudges through the foam during the live accident drill.

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The crash event drill that took place on Wednesday, March 2, at Daytona Beach International Airport (DAB) was an FAA-required activity that tests the airport’s readiness for an emergency. The point of this drill was to prepare emergency responders for the event of an aircraft crash at DAB and to evaluate the airport’s response to the events to see if they were in line with FAA regulations. Multiple agencies were involved with the event. Embry-Riddle was involved with the event as well, and in multiple ways; WIKD 102.5 provided sound equipment used by the drill announcers, and some of the participants in the drill were Embry-Riddle students or professors. Anthony Brickhouse, Associate Professor of Aerospace and Occupational Safety, along with ERAU student Nicholas Cubaletti, acted as the NTSB investigators for the drill. ERAU Campus Security also played a role in the

drill. Chad Bullock, Emergency Management Coordinator for Campus Safety and Security, helped to organize the Embry-Riddle viewing area, as well as other things. When asked how Embry-Riddle Campus Safety and Security would respond in the case of a real accident, Bullock responded, “Our officers would probably do the initial response

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students, “all had moulage on and were playing the part of actual victims in the event of an actual emergency like this did occur. They all had roles they had to play so that the emergency services teams could have it as real as possible, in the event that this actually occurred.” Moulage is the special makeup that movies and drills use to make injuries look real. In the case of the drill, the moulage helps to make the exercise more realis-

tic. There were also some Embry-Riddle students acting as survivors. This is the first time the UCF Nursing program has participated in an exercise like this at DAB. DiChiara expressed her desire to partner up with the airport again for another event like this in the future. The next live drill at DAB will take place in 2019. For more information about DAB, and the event visit their website at www.flydaytonafirst.com.

Billy Nguyen/The Avion Newspaper Firefighters work tirelessly to extinguish flames and control the situation at Daytona International Airport during a live drill, simulating an aircraft overunning the runway, possibly due to terrorism.

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Airshow Center

Campus Space Maggie Gallant AAC President

Titusville, Florida March 11-13, 2016 • Three-day air show with flying program, exhibitors featuring historic warbirds, modern jets, and acrobatic teams. _________

Tampa Bay AirFest Tampa Bay, Florida March 19-20, 2016

• Featuring over a dozen ae-

rial performances by military pilots and aircraft, Tampa Bay AirFest runs from March 19th through March 20th. Expected performers include the Thunderbirds, the Geico Skytypers and the United States Special Operations Command Para-Commandos. _________

Melbourne Air and Space Show Melbourne, Florida April 1-3, 2016

SUN n’ FUN

Lakeland, Florida April 4-10, 2016

• Sun ‘n Fun’s 2016 Airshow

features the Breitling Jet Team, a Navy F-18 Super Hornet, an Air Force F-22 Raptor, The U.S. Army Golden Nights, Patty Wagstaff, Matt Chapman, David Martin, and many other acts. _________

New Smyrna Beach Balloon and Sky Fest

New Smyrna Beach, Florida April 15-17, 2016 • Balloons and airplanes will fill the sky over New Smyrna Beach for this air show.

This Week in Aviation History March 9, 2012

First flight of the Cessna Citation M2.

March 10, 1989

Air Ontario Flight 1363 crashed immediatiely after takeoff in Dryden, Ontario. Cause of crash was ice on the wings. 24 of 69 people on board were killed.

March 11, 1958

A United States Air Force jettisons a nuclear weapons casing over rural South Carolina. No fuel capsule was installed on bomb, but explosions damage property, injuring civilians.

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Astronomy Open House

TICO Warbird

• With over 30 aircraft on display, the Melbourne Air & Space Show is one of the biggest airshows in Florida. Expected performers include the Berling Jet Team, Team AeroShell, SubSonex Microjet, and much more. _________

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Billy Nguyen/The Avion Newspaper The Embry-Riddle Observatory telescope, which is the largest research-grade reflecting telescope in Florida. Visitors to the Astronomy Open House could see the telescope as part of the event’s tours.

Last Friday night, March 4, while Paint U pervaded the air with EDM and the West Lawn with paint, space-enthusiasts and astronomy nerds alike gathered in the COAS to experience a rare event in Florida: a clear night sky. This month's Astronomy Open House did not overlap with Family Weekend or Preview Day, yet the event still managed to gather over 250 visitors from the community and campus. The Amateur Astronomy Club (AAC) was still entertaining visitors right up until the end of the event at 11 p.m. Visitors to the Open House had the chance to look through the eyepiece on the largest researchgrade telescope in Florida, tour the Physics Department’s astronomy lab, and view various targets through an impressive fleet of 6-inch refractor telescopes. The Astronomy Club also prides itself on

showing off its own telescopes, taking visitors on a scale-model tour of the solar system, and putting on various educational activities, including 3-D posters of real images of Mars and other solar system objects, a live virtual planetarium show, and our hands-on gravity well simulator. “I thought that the Astronomy Open House was a really awesome way for Embry-Riddle students and faculty to connect with the community, as well as with other students and faculty. Astronomy was celebrated and taught, and I thought that was just amazing,” said Jaclyn Wiley, News Editor of the Avion Newspaper, in an interview after the event. The next and last Astronomy Open House of this semester is on April 1. Those who might be interested in getting involved with the event and joining the Amateur Astronomy Club should attend a general meeting, which takes place on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. in COAS 207.

ERAU Students enter 2016 NASA Micro-g NExT Challenge Kathryn Williams President of Microgravity Embry-Riddle’s Microgravity Club submitted a design proposal to NASA, which was accepted last December. For the past two years with the help of their academic advisors, Dr. Sathya Gangadharan, and Dr. Birce Dikici, the team has successfully participated in the Micro-g NExT Challenge. Every year as part of the challenge NASA posts five design challenges from which colleges choose from and submit a proposal. If their proposal is accepted the teams build and showcases their designs at the Johnson Space Center Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) the following summer. Here the students present their design to NASA engineers and the NASA Education Board and experience a VIP tour of the facilities. Most importantly, the teams have the opportunity to test their devices in the NBL with the help of the NBL divers. This allows the teams to put their design through rigorous testing to find out how their design operate in a microgravity environment and provide students with the

opportunity to meet NASA employees and build their networking skills. Last spring semester the team developed asteroid simulants that were used to test asteroid mining tools in the Neutral Buoyancy Lab. The asteroid simulants consisted of three types of asteroids: metal dominate, silicate dominate, and carbon dominate. The dominate metal asteroid proved challenging for some NASA mining tools even damaged them. The team provided NASA with asteroid simulants with different composition and surface features based on the team’s research. As a result, the team offered a more realistic scenario of an asteroid mining situation. This spring the team has been accepted into the program once again to build an anchoring device designed to stabilize astronauts while they operate on asteroids. The design consists of a pneumatic-powered auger with constraints including a minimum weight, size and drilling depth. The tool also functions as a backup manual power system. The team is currently in the build and test phase. Thanks to funds provided by the Dean of the Col-

lege of Engineering, the Academic Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department, the Florida Space Grant Consortium and Embry-Riddle’s Student Government Association, the team is purchasing the materials needed for the development of the device as well as other expanses the team might encounter. Completing the NASA

design challenges allows for a better understanding of the difficulties of stability and asteroid mining in a microgravity environment. Developing accurate asteroid stimulants allowed for more thorough testing of asteroid mining tools. By testing the anchoring device this coming summer NASA can determine the best strategy for safely

securing their astronauts to asteroid surfaces. Asteroid mining will become very popular for gathering rare minerals and extending space exploration in the coming decades. During this time safety precautions such as anchoring devices will be necessary as well as the scientific development of asteroid simulants to test new tools.

Photo Courtesy: Microgravity Club Divers at the Nuetral Bouyancy Lab at Johnson Space Center test tools using microgravity club simulants.

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Return: After a Year in Space After an entire 340 days in space, Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko came back to Earth: landing in Kazakhstan on March 2. During the record-setting oneyear mission, the station crew conducted almost 400 investigations and experiments aboard the ISS. On Feb. 29, Scott Kelly gave Station Command to NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra. Then, on March 1, at 4:43 p.m. EST, the hatch

was closed and sealed between the International Space Station and the Soyuz capsule which were docked to each other. Operating the capsule was cosmonaut Sergey Volkov, who had been on the ISS for almost 182 days. Undocking was accomplished at 8:02 p.m. EST while flying over the eastern part of Mongolia. At 10:38 p.m. the spacecraft completed its deorbit burn: this took close to five minutes of total burn time and slowed the craft down to 286 mph. Finally, at 11:26 p.m. EST NASA confirmed the

safe touchdown in Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Local time was March 2, 10:26 a.m. ALMT. After landing, a large relief group promptly aided the three out of the capsule. Multiple physical examinations of Scott immediately went underway. Scott’s identical twin, former astronaut Mark Kelly, participated in parallel “Twin Studies” on Earth for comparisons. Of the many bodily changes were; fluid shifts, eyesight, muscle mass, bone structure, and height. Scott returned to Earth an entire two inches taller: Although,

it only took a couple of days to shrink back to normal. Another big study is the effects of space radiation. On the ISS, astronauts get "... 20 times the amount of radiation people on Earth are exposed to." Kelly reports that his muscles and joints are aching much

“It’s great to be back! -Scott Kelly

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Andrew Bronshteyn Staff Reporter

more this time, than the six-month ISS expedition from 2010 to 2011. On his return to Houston, TX, Scott Kelly was welcomed by the second lady Dr. Jill Biden and various NASA officials. Biden brought some beer and apple pie; just what Scott wanted. On his Twitter (@ StationCDRKelly) is a video of him excitedly jumping into his pool in Houston, fully clothed. Since his return, Kelly attended a live interview with NASA TV and spoke about the importance of space and how it affects our economy.

Space Debris: An Introduction Andrew Bronshteyn Staff Reporter There are about 670,000 objects orbiting Earth that pose a danger to satellites and other spacecraft. These objects are 1 cm or larger; they can put a hole through solar panels, and are capable of penetrating the ISS shields. According to a report by the European Space Agency (ESA) from July of 2013: There are more than 170 million objects of size 1 mm orbiting Earth, about 670,000 objects larger than 1 cm, and about 29,000 for sizes larger than 10 cm (not including satellites which are in use). Debris of 1 mm could destroy a sub-system onboard a spacecraft, and objects larger than 10 cm are entirely capable of causing “…catastrophic fragmentation of a typical satellite.” For an energy-to-mass ratio, only 40 Joules per gram are needed to cause a disastrous collision. What happens when there is a major collision in space? The movie Gravity was made to cover this exact concept. When there is a major collision, there is a significant amount of extra debris created. Glass from solar panels, metal fragments, and many other miscellaneous pieces. What ensues is called Kessler Syndrome. These broken pieces of satellite or spacecraft will rain down into smaller orbits, colliding with more satellites, and ultimately creating more debris to collide with a larger number of satellites and other debris. In the movie Gravity, Sandra Bullock survives an instance of Kessler Syndrome, which is caused when Russia sends

a missile strike on one of their old and defunct satellites. The ensuing chaos caused the death of multiple astronauts and created a box-office success. Nicholas Johnson, Chief Scientist of Orbital Debris in NASA, once stated in an interview, “The greatest risk to space missions comes from non-trackable debris.” There have not been many recorded cases of disastrous collisions with debris. On the list, however, is one infamous case where an obsolete Russian satellite destroyed a functioning US Iridium commercial satellite. Upon collision (Feb. 10, 2009), an additional 2,000 trackable debris were created. Even more infamous is when China executed an anti-satellite test in 2007; this is the real example that Gravity based their movie off of. One of China’s weather satellites was old and defunct, so they sent a Kinetic Kill Vehicle - a missile without the explosives and had it collide with the satellite at 5.0 miles per sec-

ond. The result: more than 3,000 pieces of junk which can (and must) be tracked. Most collisions happen in space, and the debris that leaves orbit almost always burns up in the atmosphere. There have been many pieces large enough to reach the ground, however. NASA has, on average, cataloged one piece of debris that has fallen back to Earth everyday for the past 50 years. No significant property damage has been recorded due to the debris. However, in 1997, a woman from Oklahoma was hit in the shoulder by a piece of woven metallic material about 4x5 inches large. This material was confirmed to have been part of a Delta II rocket which the USAF launched the year before. She remained uninjured. More recently, in 2007, an old Russian spy satellite was seen by the pilot of an A340 carrying 270 passengers over the Pacific between Santiago and Auckland. The pilot reported that the debris came within five miles of the aircraft,

and heard a sonic boom as it passed. How do we avoid debris? NASA has long held a set of guidelines that are used to evaluate the level-of-threat of the debris, and to ensure the safety of the crew. If the debris enters into an imaginary box of one mile deep, 30 miles across and 30 miles long (with the vehicle in the center), then commands are sent to the vehicle to perform a “debris avoidance maneuver,” so that the debris stays outside of the box. Planned to be operational in 2019, is the oddly named Space Fence. This is a second-generation space surveillance system which will have multiple highly sensitive radars. When operational, it is anticipated that the Space Fence will make about 1.5 million observations per day. This is about ten times the existing US assets. This Space Fence should help to stop any preventable collisions. As of November 2014, plans for debris removal are sadly theoretical. There

Photo Courtesy: Wikipedia Commons A map of space debris tracked by the United States Air Force.

are no consequences to commercial organizations which create debris. Therefore, there is no incentive for private companies to clean up. Although, the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) requires that geostationary satellite changes their orbit into a "graveyard orbit" at the end of their lives. There have been many government plans to take out old satellites or spent rocket boosters or any other miscellaneous debris out of space. Some exciting ones using lasers to slow satellites into deorbiting, some complex ones that involve in-space refueling to maximize the use of the deorbiter. But making this system reusable or otherwise cost-effective is proving difficult. Not to forget that the startup cost for making a cost-effective system would be astronomical. If you would like to see for yourself, the magnitude of space debris that is currently circling the Earth this very second; you can go to apps.agi.com/ SatelliteViewer/. There you can see and track over 15,000 satellites and debris. Space debris is a great threat to future space operations and may be responsible for future major collisions. One collision could cause billions of dollars in damages. Advancements in prevention and possible cleanup programs could be some of the most important technologies in the near to distant future. Hopefully, something like the Kessler Syndrome will ever occur in our lifetime, or before we can begin to prevent it from ever starting.

Launch Control Center OA-6- Atlas 5

March 22/23 @ 11:02 PM Cape Canaveral AF Station SLC-41

Eutelsat 117 West B & ABS 2A - Falcon 9 April TBD @ TBD Cape Canaveral AF Station SLC-40

CRS 8 - Falcon 9

April TBD @ TBD Cape Canaveral AF Station SLC-40

MUOS 5- Atlas 5

May TBD @ TBD Cape Canaveral AF Station SLC-41

NROL-37 - Delta 4-Heavy

May 5 @ TBD Cape Canaveral AF Station SLC-41

ISS Sightings Monday, March 7

5:35 am - Appears 23 °above NNE, with max height 23 °, visible for 2 minutes, disappears 11 ° above NNE

Tuesday, March 8

4:45 am- Appears 14 ° above NNE, with max height 14 °, visible for less than a minute, disappears 12 ° above NNE.

Wednesday, March 9

5:28 am - Appears 10 ° above NNW, with max height 10 °, visible for less than a minute, disapears 10 ° above NNW

This Week in Space History March 8th, 2001 Launch: Space Shuttle Discovery STS-102 at 06:42 EST. Mission highlights: ISS assembly flight 5A: Destiny lab. March 9th, 2011 The Space Shuttle Discovery, first of the space shuttles to be retired, glides to a landing to end its 39th and final mission the most by any space shuttle. March 13th, 1969 Apollo 9 ends after a 10day test of the Lunar Module in Low-Earth Orbit.

Troy Naab, Freshman, pitches to Ave Maria University at Silwa Stadium. Burning though the opponents line up, the Eagles took complete control of the game and defeated the Gyrenes with a final score of 17-4.

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Upcoming Games: Tuesday Women’s Tennis vs Indiana Wesleyan Daytona Beach, Fla. 3:30 p.m. Baseball vs Assumption Daytona Beach, Fla. at 4 p.m. Softball vs AIC Daytona Beach, Fla at 4 & 6 p.m. Men’s Golf at Florida Tech Invite Viera, Fla.

Wednesday Women’s Tennis vs Rollins Daytona Beach, Fla. at 3:30 p.m. Softball vs Fisher Daytona Beach, Fla. at 4 p.m. Softball vs Fisher Daytona Beach, Fla. at 4 p.m.

Thursday No Games

Friday Baseball at Barry Miami Shores, Fla. at 6 p.m. Softball at Tampa Tampa, Fla. at 7 p.m. Men’s/Women’s Track & Field at USF Tampa, Fla.

Saturday Softball at Tampa Tampa, Fla. at 1 p.m. Baseball at Barry Miami Shores, Fla. at 1 p.m. Women’s Tennis vs Slippery Rock Daytona Beach, Fla. at 1 p.m. Softball at Tampa Tampa, Fla. at 3 p.m. Baseball at Barry Miami Shores, Fla. at 4 p.m. Men’s, Women’s Track and Field at USF Invitational Tampa, Fla. at TBD

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Ryan Mosher ERAU Athletics Eighth-ranked Minnesota State salvaged a win in the series finale against Embry-Riddle on Friday afternoon, capitalizing on Eagle miscues for a 7-5 win. The Eagles (12-6) committed four errors and saw three unearned runs prove to be the difference for the Mavericks (4-2). Nick Dearing took the mound for the Eagles to start the day, and Kevin Toth continued to be a thorn in the side of ERAU pitchers as the Maverick second baseman singled to short before moving to second on a ground out and scoring the game's first run on a RBI single from Taylor Branstad. The Eagles came up empty in their half of the first against Aaron Rozek, but the Blue and Gold hung a crooked number on the MSU starter in the second, taking a 3-1 lead. After a Jonathan Camp double to start the inning, Joshua Garcia reached on a fielder's choice as the throw to third to try to get Camp went into the ERAU dugout, allowing Camp to score and move Garcia to second. Matt Jacobs singled to left and Garcia came home to score

when the left fielder misplayed the ball, giving ERAU a 2-1 lead. Enderson Velasquez singled back up the middle to plate Jacobs and account for the final Eagle run of the frame. MSU retook the lead in the third on a bizarre play by the Eagle defense. With the bases loaded and two outs on the board, a wild pitch from Dearing brought in a run

The Eagles played a hard game on Friday, ultimately loosing 7-5. Here, a Maverick player slides to first base; running back from second base. The Eagles got him out.

ERAU Tennis Shutout Panthers 9-0 vs

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seventh, got two outs in the eighth before Joey Swinarski got the final out of the inning to send the game to the last of the eighth. In the bottom of the ninth, the Eagles threatened another last inning comeback as they put two runners on with one out for Camp, but a 6-4-3 double play ended the game in favor of the visitors. Dearing (3-1) suffered his first collegiate loss in five innings of work, while Zirbes, Velasquez and Ryan Maxon each recorded two hits for the Eagles. ERAU takes the weekend off before hosting NAIA powerhouse Cumberland (Tenn.) on Monday, March 7 at 6 p.m.

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and two subseuquent errors scored two more Maverick runs as Minnesota State grabbed a 4-3 lead. Rozek cruised through the third and stranded a pair of Eagles in the fourth, as he and Dearing kept it a onerun game until the top of the sixth when MSU chased Dearing from the game with three runs on three hits and an ERAU error. Trailing 7-3, the Eagles cut the deficit in half with two runs in the seventh, the first on a ground out from Camp with the bases loaded, scoring Tobias Moreno, and the second on a Garcia single to left, bringing in Kyle Zirbes. Dylan Demarest, who had relieved Dearing in the

Alison Smalling ERAU Athletics The 24th-ranked Embry-Riddle men's tennis team earned its first shutout of 2016 on Friday, downing No. 40 Florida Tech 9-0 in the Eagles' first road match of the season. Now 4-1 on the year, the Eagles will have

Panthers: 0 a 12-day layoff before their next match, which will be against fourthranked West Florida at 10 a.m. on March 16. The top-flight Eagle tandem of Deni Zmak and Juan Ortiz Couder got the scoring started for the Blue and Gold with their 8-4 defeat of JJ Clark and Ricardo Corona. Mic-

kael Faucher and Luke de Caires followed with their 8-6 win over Wade Ball and Majed Alshaikh on court three, and Fabian Zierleyn and Carlos Becke completed the doubles sweep, topping Aria Canadell and Tijmon Louisy by the same margin. De Caires wasted little time in recording the first singles point for the Blue and Gold as he dispatched Foresight Okungbowa 6-0, 6-1 at the sixth spot. Zmak assured the Eagles of the win when he scored the clincher with his 6-3, 6-0 win over Canadell at the top position.

Three of the remaining four matches were straight-set victories for the Eagles as Ortiz Couder topped Gerard Carpinell 6-1, 6-4, Becke held off Alshaikh 6-4, 6-4, and Rodolfo Arreygue bested Clark 6-1, 6-4. The final match off the court was a three-set battle between Zierleyn and Corona on court two. Zierleyn lost the first set but rebounded to easily take the second 6-1. The final set required a tiebreak to determine the outcome, which Zierleyn won 7-6 (8-5) to secure the shutout.

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Baseball Registers Doubleheader Sweep of NCAA II No. 8 Minnesota State vs ERAU: 8 Name Ryan Mosher Position ERAU Athletics The Embry-Riddle baseball team earned its biggest wins as a NCAA II program on Thursday, sweeping a doubleheader from perennial power and No. 8 Minnesota State, 8-5 (7 innings) and 6-5 (10 innings) at Sliwa Stadium. The Eagles (12-5) came back from a 2-0 deficit in the opener before holding on for the threerun win before staging a dramatic seventh-inning rally against MSU (3-2) in the nightcap to force extras before Matt Jacobs ended the game with a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th. The day’s first game started out as a true pitchers’ duel as the Eagles’ Corey Tufts and the Mavericks’ Dalton Roach matched each other pitch for pitch through the first two innings as the game moved to the third without a score. Kevin Toth put the Mavericks on the board with a two-out solo homer to left in the top of the third for a 1-0 MSU lead. Tufts kept the visitors at just one run in the fourth, and the Eagles threatened Roach in the last of the inning after Jonathan Camp walked with one out before Enderson Velasquez doubled to right field, pushing Camp around the bases, and

MSU: 5 the Eagle right fielder attempted to tie the game by racing towards home, but a great relay throw from the second baseman Toth cut down Camp at the plate, keeping MSU in front by a run. Toth was once again the center of a big play in the fifth when he reached on a three-base error by the Eagles, scoring on a Tufts’ wild pitch to make it 2-0 in favor of the Mavericks. The bottom of the fifth proved to be the turning point in the game, starting with a Joey Swinarski double to lead off the inning, and on a 1-0 pitch to Jacobs in the next at-bat, Roach saw his 2-0 lead disappear as the ERAU senior launched his second homer of the season over the left field fence, knotting the game at 2-2. ERAU loaded the bases later on in the inning with one out, but Roach got out of the jam to send the game to the sixth square at 2-2. Tufts stranded two Mavericks in scoring position in the top of the sixth, striking out Chase Lonetti before his team put him in line for the win with a six-run home-half of the frame. Joshua Garcia doubled to start the Eagle sixth, moving to third on a Swinarski sacrifice bunt, but Roach, who fielded the bunt, looked at third to try for the out there before

realizing he had no play, and by the time he turned to first, Swinarski was safely on the bag for the Blue and Gold. A walk issued to Jacobs loaded the bases for Dalton Hughes, and with the infield in, Hughes poked a ball through the right side of the infield for two RBIs and a 4-2 Eagle lead. Josh Matheson relieved Roach, but would do no better, giving up a two-RBI single to Zirbes and a RBI gorundout to Velasquez as Embry-Riddle went up 7-2. Liam Goodall would account for the final Eagle run of the frame, scoring from third on a passed ball. Kyle Miller entered for Tufts to begin the seventh, and the Mavericks made things a little interesting, scoring three runs on three hits, but never brought the potential tying run to the plate and Miller ended the game with a strikeout as the Eagles secured their first win over a ranked NCAA II team since a 7-6 win over then-No. 8 Tampa on April 12, 2011. Tufts (4-1) got the win in six innings of work, allowing two runs (one earned) on five hits with three walks and five Ks, while Miller tossed the final inning for Embry-Riddle. Zirbes finished 2-for-3 with two RBIs and a run scored, while Jacobs was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs and Hughes recorded two RBIs and a run for the Blue and Gold. The second game of Thursday’s doubleheader proved to be one of the most exciting games in recent Embry-Riddle baseball history as the Eagles found themselves trailing 5-1 entering the

bottom of the sixth inning, but ERAU looked to the bat of Jonathan Camp, as the right fielder recorded three RBIs, including the game-tying two-RBI double with two outs in the last of the seventh to send the game to extras before Jacobs ended things via the walk-off long ball in the 10th. Kenny Burkhead took the mound for ERAU to start things off, but struggled in the early going as Minnesota State scored two runs on three hits and an Eagle error to take a 2-0 lead before the Eagles got to bat for the first time. ERAU was able to cut the lead in half when Camp grounded out to second, scoring Tobias Moreno after the leadoff hitter was hit by a pitch, stole second and moved to third on a wild pitch. However, Brody Rodning kept his team in front by getting Velasquez to pop up with Zirbes at third to end the inning, 2-1 in favor of MSU. Burkhead and Rodning battled back-and-forth through the next three innings, neither starter giving up another run until a very controversial call in the fifth. The Mavericks had two runners on with two outs, and cleanup hitter Dylan Dresei lifted a Burkhead pitch down the right field line where Camp nearly made a spectacular catch in what appeared to be foul territory, but after Camp was unable to make the catch, the umpires ruled the ball landed fair, and both MSU runners, who had been moving on contact, scored for a 4-1 Maverick advantage. Rodning struck out the side in the last of the fifth

for a shut down inning, and the visitors tacked on a run in the sixth when Lonetti singled to left, chasing in the fifth run of the day for MSU. Camp started his terrorizing of the MSU pitching staff in the bottom of the sixth, leading off the inning with a no-doubter over the left field fence to trim the deficit to 5-2, but the Eagles couldn’t score any more in the inning as Rodning sent the game to the seventh with a strikeout of Swinarski. Dylan Demarest came in for Burkhead to start the seventh, working around a leadoff single and subsequent hit by pitch by getting a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning and setup the dramatics in the home-half of the frame. Jacobs singled to right to begin the Eagle seventh, but Rodning quickly got two fly outs before Zirbes doubled to right to put ERAU runners on second and third. Goodall kept the Eagles’ hopes alive with an RBI single through the left side of the infield to make it 5-3. MSU went to its closer, Dakota Belter, to face Camp, and after getting behind 0-2, Camp worked the count to 2-2 before barrelling up a Belter pitch to deep center, scoring both Zirbes and Goodall to tie the game at 5-5. Demarest worked a scoreless eighth and the home team was on the verge of walking off in the bottom of the inning when Garcia walked and moved to third with one out on heads-up play when Swinarski bunted him to second and no Maverick covered third. However,

Belter struck out Hughes and Moreno lined out to second to end the threat for the Eagles. Demarest gave up a leadoff single to Toth before a sacrifice bunt put him in scoring position with one away. Andrew Schorr was called upon to face the lefty Taylor Branstad, but Schorr hit him with a pitch and Swinarski, the Eagles’ DH, took the mound to try to keep the game tied. Swinarski got a shallow fly out from Dresel before a weak ground ball to Garcia at second ended the top of the ninth with the contest still tied at 5-5. Neither the Eagles nor Mavericks could find the go-ahead run in the bottom of the ninth or top of the 10th, and MSU reliever Trevor Patterson got two quick outs in the home 10th before Jacobs stepped to the plate. After the senior fouled off the first pitch, he watched two balls go by before crushing his third home run of the year down the left field line, clearing the fence for the Eagles’ first walk-off home run since Kevin Lindheim’s against Cumberland on March 11, 2014. Swinarski (1-2) was the winner for the Eagles, throwing 1.2 innings without allowing a hit. Jacobs finished 4-for5 with one RBI and two runs scored, while Camp was 3-for-5 with four RBIs and a run. Zirbes collected two hits to improve his season average to a team-best .411. The Eagles and Mavericks wrap up their three-game series with a single game on Friday, March 4 at 3 p.m.

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