Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!military From: baldwin@cad.usna.mil (J.D. Baldwin) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: My trip to USAF Museum Message-ID: <1990Jun29.025353.6517@cbnews.att.com> Date: 29 Jun 90 02:53:53 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 28 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "J.D. Baldwin" Tom Balent, quoting Steve Creps: >>p.s. I planning a trip east this summer. Does the Navy have anything >>similar to the museum at Dayton? > >Yes. I have never been there, so I do not know how big it is, but it >is at the Naval Station at Pensacola, Florida. It is fairly large, probably about the size of the SAC museum at Offutt AFB in Omaha, NE. My rough guess would be about a hundred aircraft, including a YF-17 and the first transatlantic-crossing aircraft (a "Flying Boat"). There are both indoor and outdoor areas. The space exhibit is weak, though they have the Apollo capsule that carried the first all-Navy crew into space. Most fascinating to me is the engine exhibit. Many, many cutaway models and actual jet and rotary aircraft engines. The engines and their associated explanatory displays take up a large room. Student naval aviators (all of whom are trained for a short time at Pensacola NAS) are taken to this museum as part of their training curriculum. -- >From the catapult of: |+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I _, J. D. Baldwin, Comp Sci Dept |+| say, I am quite prepared not only to __||____:::)=}- U.S. Naval Academy|+| retract it, but also to deny under \ / baldwin@cad.usna.navy.mil |+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~