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Driving into Pensacola Naval Air Station
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The guard gate
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The view as you arrive.
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Driving in...
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Driving into Pensacola NAS
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The Burns & Honeck Family
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Aircraft hang from every rafter!
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Bec & Megan pose with the big anchor out front
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Beccca in an F-4 Phantom II cockpit
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And another view...
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And another, with Megan waiting patiently
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An AWACs Connie
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A Curtiss F6E Hawk
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What a cool plane!
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The plaque describing the Hawk
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Detail of the F6 Hawk
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More details
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A DC-3 on skiis
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Detailed models are everywhere
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Bec, Mary and Jay with the Jenny
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The Navy's first plane
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A real Flying Tiger P-40
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Flying Tiger rising sun
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Flying Tiger detail
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A Harrier
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Jay pretends to be "Maverick" in an F-14
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Jay in an F-4 cockpit
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Jay again
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Jay finds the A6 Intruder to be amusing!
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Jim examines the complex dive flaps of a WWII dive bomber
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The last active F-14 Tomcat, straight from Iraq
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Detail of the F-14
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The Tomcat is STILL a mean-looking bird
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The Curtiss Jenny -- a piece of furniture that flew!
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The newest Blue Angel F/A-18 has a broken spar, and was retired to the museum
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Nick & Jim with a Sopwith Camel
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Nick gets into a cockpit
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Old Helicopters...
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MORE old helicopters
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Recently retired "Fat Albert" -- the Blue Angels C-130
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Fat Albert again...
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Close up of Fat Albert's JATO tubes...
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A very early naval jet
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The restoration hangar was VERY cool.
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More restoration hangar...
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And some more!
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A SeaCobra overhead!
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The SeaRay -- one of the weirdest/coolest jets ever to fly
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Another shot of the Sopwith Camel
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A pristine Stearman
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Tomcat on a stick!
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Claude -- our very cool tour guide!
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Another shot of Claude
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Claude with the Jenny
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A very cool Vigilante
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World War I planes on display
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A Consolidated Privateer -- a B-24 derivative
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