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The regional government president, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, chaired today the official opening of the academic year 2008-2009 at the General Air Academy (AGA) of San Javier, where he gave an inaugural lecture in which he recalled the close ties that bind Region of Murcia, Spanish military aircraft over the story.
Valcarcel, who said she was always in the AGA "like home", also confessed to a "passion" of aviation and was pleased to share with students of the institution, future Air Force officers " the extraordinary environment, enthusiasm, friendship and the many values it cherishes military training center and that is showing. "
The Chief Executive addressed the Murcia nearly three hundred students belonging to various promotions Scale Body Superior General of the Air Force, including those forming part of the Quartermaster Corps and Engineers, and those belonging to the General Body Official Scale Air Force, with the Specialist Corps Officers Scale and the Corps of Engineers Technical Officer scale.
To all of them, I recalled the strong ties that bind the AGA "with this region of Murcia that you receive, and is glad of it, as you are already in their own right, Murcia and Murcia few more, and as such must feel ".
"A Murcia boasts proudly of the important work carried out on the tracks and buildings that make up these facilities, because they are forged not only excellent pilots and officers but also contributes in a fundamental way to human formation of men and women for a future manned aircraft of various Air Force units, "said Valcarcel.
"Now your task is to feel in the cabin of the Sieve, the Blackbird or the Dornier that same emotion, the famous 'butterflies' that in its day, students experienced unprecedented promotions during their first flights at the controls such legendary aircraft as the Bücker, the DC-3, T-6 Texan, the Mentor, the Aviocar, the Bonanza or Saeta ", reminded the aspiring officer.
Valcarcel said that, since in 1945 the first flights took place, the slopes of the AGA have spent a total of 17 different models of aircraft for pilots training for the Spanish military.
"Airplanes whose practices, grouped aerial maneuvers and parades in colorful formations I watched spellbound in those summers of my childhood and my youth I enjoyed both in La Ribera and awakened in me the same passion for military aviation, that deep admiration for Air Force and the professionals who all share here, "recalled the chief executive of Murcia.
Valcárcel revealed to those present that "and then harbored the illusion of one day be one of those courageous military pilots who are both in the classroom and on board aircraft of this Academy, so dear to me and I've visited numerous occasions, either privately or by reason of my position as chairman of the regional government. "
First flight of a military flying boat in Los Alcazares
In his speech, he also related the good weather in the region of Murcia, central to everything related to the flight conditions, which has led to its close links with the Spanish military aircraft from the very beginning of it, and that is the only province autonomous region which has two airfields in the Air Force, the San Javier and Sewer, in the total count exceeded only by the three houses the Community of Madrid.
He recalled that the Region has hosted over the past century a considerable number of airfields and air bases in those who have experienced one of the most important milestones of Spanish aviation history.
Among the most prominent, recalled the first flight of a military flying boat in Spain, an event that took place on November 22, 1915 at the base of Los Alcazares.
Also referred to the Sewer airfield, home of 721 Squadron, Military School Skydiving and Parachute Acrobatic Patrol popular Air Force (Pape), and from whose planes have been more than a million parachute jumps.
Thanks to Air Surveillance Squadron No. 13, located in Sierra Espuña, the region was also a pioneer in Spain in the installation and commissioning of the first operational radar Lanza, manufactured by Spanish company Indra is considered one of the world's best detection air.
Other milestones related to land Murcia, and more specifically to the AGA, have to do with the incorporation of the first women to the Air Force since 1988, ranking the first student who was granted the status of a fighter pilot, Rosa María García-Malea, and the fact that the student also Rocío González Torres got number one in the course of hunting and attack for the first time in history.
To all this must be added the presence in the Academy students, both of His Majesty King Juan Carlos I and his son, Prince Felipe de Borbon, and where both received their offices as lieutenant on July 15, 1959 and 10 July 1989, respectively.
Further evidence of the close ties between the Spanish Royal Family to the AGM and, by extension, with the Region of Murcia.
Other memorable events associated with the base of San Javier are the foundation on July 4, 1985 of the Eagle Patrol, one of the most prestigious acrobatic formations in the world whose pilots are the same instructors for the Academy, and holding in their facilities Festival aircraft 'Air 06', regarded as Europe's best in its category in 2006.
Finally, Valcárcel also referred to one of the great aviation pioneers of Spanish, the Murcia Juan de la Cierva, inventor of the autogyro, considered the ancestor of modern helicopters.
Source: CARM
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