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O, Woe is me!!
Took a ride Saturday to the Museum of Naval Aviation aboard Pensacola Naval Air Station. Haven't been in a while, and they've been busy since I was there last. It's getting crowded in there! They have 2 large display spaces, one has early aviation and WWI on one side, modern aircraft on the other. The other space has WWII on one side and Korean-era on the other. There's an atrium where the Blue Angels A4 Skyhawks hang in formation. They have an IMAX theater, a restaurant decorated with actual artifacts from the o-club at NAS Cubi Point in the Phillippines, a library, an art gallery, a WWII-era street, a carrier spaces display with a hangar deck, quarters, briefing room, and there is a space display. They have a set Tomcat simulators where you can try your hand at combat against other museum patrons or land on a carrier.
I have 130 images posted here, but I'll put some teasers here. These are clickable to get a larger version, in some cases much larger. Most of these here are actually stitched from at least 3, and as many as 6 shots, to get a iew wider than possible in a single frame.
When I arrived a found an empty space next to these:
Parked next to them like I belonged there or somethin'
I left a note, turns out the FJR belongs to our boy patriot. Didn't actually meet, but he left a card. Maybe he's in one of my pictures somewhere. . . .
Entering the museum you see this foyer, the IMAX theater directly ahead, and you pass left or right into the actual museum spaces.
Going in to the right you come into the early years display:
The other side of which looks like this:
The very large biplane is an NC-4, three of which left Rockaway Beach, New York in 1919 to attempt the worl'd first transatlantic crossing by air. This plane is the only one that made it to Lisbon, in a time of 19 days!!!
Across the aisle is the modern section, seen here from the upstairs level. (OK, the float plane isn't modern. . .)
The Blue Angels A-4s hanging in the atrium:
I heard the tour guide say that the aircraft are "looser" than the actual formation flown due to weight problems in engineering the ceiling.
The Korean area, and the WWII area (on a life-size light carrier deck display)
I stood about where that guy is in the empty area in the center of the deck, and shot frames to build a Quicktime 360, which you can download:
Low-res, 1.5 MB, just a few seconds to get.
acceptable, 5MB, a minute or two.
good-for-full-screen, 20MB, five or ten minutes.
They should play in the browser just by clicking, but playing in the Quicktime player is more flexible, I think, so you might right-click the link and save to your machine. For the big one I recommend right-click and save anyway.
You can man a 40mm AA station:
There's also an outdoor display, accessed by taking a tour bus (free ticket) of unrestored aircraft. There's an adjacent hangar which is the museum's work space, where restoration is done.
On my Photobucket page the pictures have descriptions, but you have to be looking at the picture, not the thumbnails, to see the descriptions. When you've got one up, there is a nav bar at the right side of the screen to go through without having to back out to the thumbnail page again.
There are plans for an expansion to the museum, but post-Ivan construction prices have fubar'd the budget. It's been postponed, and now is set again, but reduced in scope.
I have 130 images posted here, but I'll put some teasers here. These are clickable to get a larger version, in some cases much larger. Most of these here are actually stitched from at least 3, and as many as 6 shots, to get a iew wider than possible in a single frame.
When I arrived a found an empty space next to these:
Parked next to them like I belonged there or somethin'
I left a note, turns out the FJR belongs to our boy patriot. Didn't actually meet, but he left a card. Maybe he's in one of my pictures somewhere. . . .
Entering the museum you see this foyer, the IMAX theater directly ahead, and you pass left or right into the actual museum spaces.
Going in to the right you come into the early years display:
The other side of which looks like this:
The very large biplane is an NC-4, three of which left Rockaway Beach, New York in 1919 to attempt the worl'd first transatlantic crossing by air. This plane is the only one that made it to Lisbon, in a time of 19 days!!!
Across the aisle is the modern section, seen here from the upstairs level. (OK, the float plane isn't modern. . .)
The Blue Angels A-4s hanging in the atrium:
I heard the tour guide say that the aircraft are "looser" than the actual formation flown due to weight problems in engineering the ceiling.
The Korean area, and the WWII area (on a life-size light carrier deck display)
I stood about where that guy is in the empty area in the center of the deck, and shot frames to build a Quicktime 360, which you can download:
Low-res, 1.5 MB, just a few seconds to get.
acceptable, 5MB, a minute or two.
good-for-full-screen, 20MB, five or ten minutes.
They should play in the browser just by clicking, but playing in the Quicktime player is more flexible, I think, so you might right-click the link and save to your machine. For the big one I recommend right-click and save anyway.
You can man a 40mm AA station:
There's also an outdoor display, accessed by taking a tour bus (free ticket) of unrestored aircraft. There's an adjacent hangar which is the museum's work space, where restoration is done.
On my Photobucket page the pictures have descriptions, but you have to be looking at the picture, not the thumbnails, to see the descriptions. When you've got one up, there is a nav bar at the right side of the screen to go through without having to back out to the thumbnail page again.
There are plans for an expansion to the museum, but post-Ivan construction prices have fubar'd the budget. It's been postponed, and now is set again, but reduced in scope.
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