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To: pfflier

I visited the Nimitz museum George H W Bush Gallery in Fredicks burgh Texas a few weeks ago.

His actual log book was there and very neatly entered were the date, weather , aircraft type and flight time in black ink were the Remarks..... scratch two flat tops in red ink
(it might have said carriers instead of flat tops)

That log book was one of the most moving exhibits I have seen in any museum

While on the subject among FRiends, there is the American Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola. It is a fantastic museum and very well done. I was going in April but ran out of time. The owner of Enterprise car rental which he named for his carrier, donated $10 million for a new building. I saw the large building some time back but it wasn’t ready yet.

It is better than the Air Force counterpart in Dayton.


55 posted on 06/03/2015 4:27:05 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: bert

I visited the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola around 20 years ago. It was great way back then and I am sure much better now.

One of the things which intrigued me was they had a bunch of engines cut in half. You could see how they worked. The old piston engines actually were much more complex than the jets.


58 posted on 06/03/2015 4:48:44 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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