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From: kml@mosquito.cis.ufl.edu (Kevin Lahey)
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Subject: Re: My trip to USAF Museum
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Date: 29 Jun 90 02:54:19 GMT
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From: kml@mosquito.cis.ufl.edu (Kevin Lahey)

In article <1990Jun28.025733.18967@cbnews.att.com> trb@cbbca.att.com (Thomas R Balent) writes:
>In article <1990Jun27.020916.1083@cbnews.att.com> creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) writes:
>>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 has been awhile since I visited either Wright-Patternson or Pensacola,
but as I recall, the museum in Pensacola is much smaller.  I would think
that the entire area, inside and out, could be fit into the main hanger
at Wright-Patterson.

I don't mean to discourage you;  there are still quite a few aircraft there,
but I don't think it can really compare to the USAF museum.  If I am 
misremembering either museum, I'd be happy to be corrected.

Kevin
kml@mosquito.cis.ufl.edu

P.S.  I saw the Smithsonian Silver Hill facility just last summer, and I 
gotta say, *check it out*!  Our tour guide was a former P-47 pilot; it was
worth the trip just to talk to the guy, let alone the chance to see
the insides of a B-29 (the Enola Gay, no less!) and all the rest of the
great stuff out there!