LETU Flight Team Wins First Place at Regional SAFECON

LONGVIEW – LeTourneau University’s Sting Precision Flight Team won first place at the 2016 Regional SAFECON collegiate flight competition, hosted by Central Texas College. This marks the fourth year in a row that the team has brought home the gold. The team scored over 600 points in a combination of flight and ground events, which beat the nearest competition by 72 points. In addition to the championship, the team took home the sportsmanship award, which is based upon votes cast by other competing teams.

There was much success by individual team members including:
*First place in the Navigation event by pilot Thomas Alley (sophomore from Tuscola, Texas) and safety observer Austin Turner (sophomore from Modesto, Calif.),
*First place in the Short Field Landing flight event and Aircraft Recognition flight event by Er-Jin Jang (senior from Daegu, South Korea),
*First place Message Drop flight event by Addison Duncan (sophomore from Enid, Texas) and Benjamin White (sophomore from Tyler, Texas),
*First place in the Simulated Comprehensive Aircraft Navigation ground event by Jonathan Reigle (senior from San Antonio, Texas),
*First place in the aviation math-based Manual Flight Computer ground event by Trevor Taylor (junior from Keller, Texas).