Since its establishment in 1966, the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation has provided the flight path for thousands of benefactors to support the museum. The foundation works diligently to raise funds through gifts and memberships. All foundation funding, aside from staffing and operational costs, contributes to museum expansion, aircraft preservation, conservation and maintenance, development of new exhibits and support of day to day functions. This includes custodial services, marketing, operation of the museum’s various attractions, as well as the production of major events at the museum. The foundation also supports the advancement of STEM education through the National Flight Academy, a cutting-edge, aviation-themed learning experience.
My stepfather was a fly chief PET offered during World War III right when the war began. He was a aviation, machinist mate. He had to bill a taxi to the aircraft from the bay after injury repairs, but it broke out. They took a bunch of enlisted men, and they pilots out of him. He was there when a few flying chief officers, the World War III.
Being a 30 year career carrier Ordie/Gunner ... the EA-6B was the only aircraft that would literally rattle my bones at full military power while in tension on the cats! Incredible power and quite a machine. Always fondly referred to as, "Mom, Dad, and the kids!"
Nice vid, terrible name (abbrev for Vietnam?), and taste in military paint schemes. The Mig21 flown at the Mankato Airshow, c. '93 in MN, was what one might expect from our 'frenemies' of the time. Since then we've gone into space with them, hosted Vodka toasts to them, and currently support the Ukes in killing them. Isn't that great? But would like to see the Douglas KA-3B accurately restored one day, and not the Mickey Mouse 'spoof' version currently venerated out there -- the fan blade of an A3 in the Pentagon wreckage notwithstanding.
As an AEAN in-training at NAS North Island in Jan '66, was assigned to a P5 squadron (I don't remember which) for further Class B training. When not in class had to scrape the bilges of a P5 Martin and also helped load mines into same -- all the while learning (as a budding electrician) on how to electrically maintain this massive beast and it's carbon arc searchlight. Unknown to me, this Martin variant was then being phased out, and following class completion March '66, was reassigned to a land based P2V anti-sub outfit (Patron 2, or VP-2) then operating out of MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, and flying the P2-V Neptune. This bird, of course, would soon be replaced by the P3 Orion, and so it went.
I was an AT in VAQ-136 77-80 (Indy, Sorry Sara, and Midway), then VAQ-135 80-81 (Kittyhawk), visited 4 carriers who else could do that with 4.5 years at sea, Only in a VAQ outfit. I worked on the com/nav/radar along with the EW systems. It was quite an Adventure. Those were the days my friends, we thought they would never end. But Then they did, and we have the memories.. Nice presentation... To Bad the Government is still stupid in some ways and no one (vets or civilians) can get to see the various place like Pen. oh well...
The canopy has a slight dip in the top middle. So when it has water on it and you open the canopy the water drains all over the center console. For some strange reason the electronics doesn't like water.
I live close to Pensacola I live in Alabama and every year we go to the red white and blues air show at the beach and this year will be 10 years since my first airshow in 2014
Semper Fi. Served in the Marine Corps myself 1977 to 1983, MCAS Cherry Point home base two west-pac deployments '79-'80 and '81-'82. MOS-6013, A6E plane captin VMA-(AW)-533.
This is really interesting hearing how the Harrier works, but unfortunately as others have pointed out the editing results in key information being missed.
I happen to live near that Museum and been going there since the early 1970's. It one of the BEST Museum's to see, make sure you plan at least 3 days to go through it in order to see it all.
В 109 предплечия пилота почти плотно прижаты к ребрам. Возникает вопрос: удобно ли это при пилотирование с усилием на ручку? Американская инженерная культура с самого начала отличалась заботой об эргономике! 😊
A fantastic program. BUT you have forgotten to tell that it was on 4 April 1942 that a PBY from the RCAF found the Japanese fleet (the same force that attacked Pearl H) which was on its way to Ceylon. The plane managed to send a signal to Colombo so they knew something was up. However, the plane was shot down and most of the crew captured. Almost the same thing happened at Midway (Here, however, the plane was not shot down) Ceylon became the stop and Midway the turning point!! But no one in USA knows what happened in the Indian Ocean those days....
My first Skipper( VAQ 138) CDR William Hawk Flew the First EA6-B to NAS Whidbey Island in 1971. I have and still look back if fond memories of watching these aircraft flying over head as a kid, Not long after my Graduation from Oak Harbor High School , I found myself going through boot camp and A school and working on The Most Awsome Aircraft with the most Awsome People I have ever had the pleasure of working with!!!
I went to this museum, it's in Pensacola FL and one of the absolute coolest museums I've ever gone to their food great and their planes , science, and history absolutely amazing. I highly recommend if you like plane history to go here because IT WAS THE BEST !!!!!
