The commemorative day for the 50 years of history of the tourist-residential town of Costa Teguise began this Saturday with the air demonstration of the SAR and its PUMA helicopter, and continued with the exhibition of 9 paratroopers from the Parachute Acrobatic Patrol of the Air and Space Force (PAPEA), who flew over the skies of Costa Teguise after being launched from a C212 plane on Las Cucharas beach, over which they will make 3 passes deploying the flag of the Canary Islands and that of Spain, showing their skill in the air.
Captain Oumar Cheikh Larrocha, 2nd chief of PAPEA, opened the event on behalf of his colleagues: "It is a very special day for us to have the opportunity to participate with our exhibition in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Costa Teguise." The 9 paratroopers who participated in the exhibition made several passes, in which they displayed the flag of the Air and Space Force, the flag of Spain and the flag of the Canary Islands. "We see now how a 54 square meter and 25 kilo flag of the Community of the Canary Islands has just been deployed, carried by soldier Estrada, a native of Tenerife. As a Canary Islander, I get goosebumps seeing our beautiful colors in the sky," said the captain in charge of narrating the spectacle that was followed by thousands of people along the Las Cucharas avenue.
PAPEA is among the best skydiving teams in the world and has obtained more than 70 trophies in various international competitions and world championships, and is distinguished as the only Parachute Unit of the FAS authorized and trained to perform the well-known and spectacular maneuvers of "Relative Canopy", in which the jumpers join their parachutes together performing all kinds of acrobatics, and today they started all the figures building the most basic formations known as stacks, in which the paratroopers join their canopies in stages, flying in the same direction until the parachute that is at the bottom is hooked by the feet, from the one located at the top.
The mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, thanked the Army for its presence at this event "which begins its program honoring a mature tourist destination such as Costa Teguise and in fair recognition of the transfer of the runway of that gateway that is the airport of Lanzarote." "It is a pride for Teguise to have the collaboration of the members of the Armed Forces, who today have given us this spectacular gift that has had us all looking at the sky and that we have applauded and has moved us to see our Canarian flag unfurl."
