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I have just always loved airplanes and spaceships. My idea of a great vacation is to visit an aviation museum or air show, and my current job has afforded me the opportunity to do a lot of that. Best - Karen Do you ever get over to Lakeland for Sun 'n Fun?? Leanne |
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Super NEWs INDEED! Thanks Karen, for posting it.
Karen Johnson wrote: "Jake Donovan" wrote in message news:p6P3d.52316$9Y5.33484@fed1read02... A majority of base roads are impassable. Generator power to selected buildings only Reported damage to every building on station - 90% of buildings have suffered "significant" damage. Currently no power - no water - no sewage. Sporadic gas leaks exist all over the base. Phone landlines restored on limited capability this morning Internet connectivity/Navy.mil website still down. ETR sometime Sunday or Monday. Base Public Affairs Office destroyed (National Historic Building) - photo lab destroyed. Naval Air Technical Training Center was completely under water Pensacola Naval Air Station Museum structure held up. S-3 President Bush flew aboard USS Abraham Lincoln is intact and undamaged. Coast Guard station reported destroyed Air Station Cemetery intact Approximately 10% of power lines are down - conservative estimate. Runways are capable - Air Control tower structure ok - Radar is down Blue Angels All Blue Angels operations are on hold Scheduled show this weekend in Nantucket is canceled. Every member of Blue Angels reporting damage to their homes - currently working on return plan to Pensacola. May base out of New Orleans for the rest of season. All shows for the next week are on hold NAS Whiting Field Every hangar at Whiting is missing its roof. Aircraft damage in hangars is suspected. Full BDA still ongoing. No one other than emergency personnel are allowed on base Two-thirds of all primary air training is held at NAS Whiting Primary and helicopter training held at NAS Whiting completely down for approximately two weeks. Great News! I just read an online article from the Miama Herald that says the museum fared very well. "There was minimum damage," said retired Vice Adm. Jack Fetterman, president and CEO of the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "The museum is in great shape." The article continues: "He said only two of about 70 planes displayed outside on the flight line at Pensacola Naval Air Station were damaged. Aircraft inside the museum and a restoration building were unharmed. Other than some water penetration near the entrance, the museum itself is fine, Fetterman said." Also: "We could be up for visitors within a week and a half to two weeks," Fetterman said. This is certainly a relief. I am still trying to reach NAS JRB NO to confirm if the Blue Angels are temporarily moving their base there. Best--Karen |
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Lynn:
Honestly, I don't know where. I was kind of grumpy when they took the plane and did not inquire...however I think it is near a McDonnel-Douglas factory as it mentioned a lot of retired MD factory workers were going to work on it. It seemed like a small city was sponsoring it. Looks like it has found a good home. The main guy that was taking care of the bird here in Victoria died of a heart attack and the plane fell into a bit of a funk in terms of constant care and the city saw a chance to get rid of it and moved quickly before the vacuum could be filled. NEVER turn your back on a bureaucrat! The aircraft is an F-101F, formerly a Texas Air Guard bird at Ellington, was previously based at Tyndall AFB. There is at least one picture of the bird flying in TANG markings and Tyndall markings but my serial information is in a box somewhere. AL Al Lynn in StLou wrote: old hoodoo wrote: In Victoria Texas. However the F-101 just got moved this summer to Missouri after being here ten years. Bummer. I will never again dealt with City politicians. They have been on a crusade to get rid of all historical artifacts in the City. Lost a great Locomotive engine a couple of years ago. I'm moving eventually, historically speaking, this town sucks. Al Really? To where in MO? There is an F-101 at Spirit of St Louis Airport, but that has been there several years. Am not familiar with any other locations here in the Show Me state. Thanks |
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On 21 Sep 2004 14:22:04 -0700, (Karen Johnson) wrote:
Great News! Thanks for the pointer, Karen. (Registering to read the article was a pain. I wish newspapers would get over that idea.) I've posted the article at http://p196.ezboard.com/fwarbirdsfor...picID=17.topic for anyone who wants to read it without registering. Since it's AP, I reckon it's available at other sites as well. all the best -- Dan Ford email: (put Cubdriver in subject line) The Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com Expedition sailboat charters www.expeditionsail.com |
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:11:16 -0400, Cub Driver wrote:
Thanks for the pointer, Karen. (Registering to read the article was a pain. I wish newspapers would get over that idea.) Bookmark this site: http://www.bugmenot.com/ -- -Jeff B. yeff at erols dot com |
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old hoodoo wrote:
Lynn: Honestly, I don't know where. I was kind of grumpy when they took the plane and did not inquire...however I think it is near a McDonnel-Douglas factory as it mentioned a lot of retired MD factory workers were going to work on it. It seemed like a small city was sponsoring it. Looks like it has found a good home. The main guy that was taking care of the bird here in Victoria died of a heart attack and the plane fell into a bit of a funk in terms of constant care and the city saw a chance to get rid of it and moved quickly before the vacuum could be filled. NEVER turn your back on a bureaucrat! The aircraft is an F-101F, formerly a Texas Air Guard bird at Ellington, was previously based at Tyndall AFB. There is at least one picture of the bird flying in TANG markings and Tyndall markings but my serial information is in a box somewhere. AL FWIW, Spirit of St Louis airport is just west of St Louis in the MO river bottoms. McD-D, now Boeing, is about 10 minutes from me. What I did notice is that the 101 at SoStL was different; at least it had a new paint job. I am wondering if they moved your 101 there and took the 101 that had been there somewhere for resto. I will go take a look later this week. Maybe it is your 101. If so, it has an okay home. Not the best in the world. Thanks for the response -- Lynn in StLou REMOVETHIS anti-spam measure to reply |
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Yeff wrote in message ...
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 06:11:16 -0400, Cub Driver wrote: Thanks for the pointer, Karen. (Registering to read the article was a pain. I wish newspapers would get over that idea.) Bookmark this site: http://www.bugmenot.com/ More Blue Angels Information: I talked to Public Affairs at NAS JRB New Orleans. He said he is "not authorized" to release information about whether the team will temporarily base aboard NO, except to say that the C-130 (Fat Albert)has dropped in a few times enroute to other points. (I guess "official" word on anything BA related should rightfully come directly from the team PA Officer.) He also indicated that future airshow appearances are "in limbo." Of course, our primary concern is for the welfare of the team and their families. Thought you might like to know there is another AP online article that shows a picture of Commander Russ Bartlett at http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/flori...192844,00.html And, FYI, there is a new web site about the original Blue Angel, Butch Voris, at http://www.firstblueangel.com/ He has a book out. Best to all. Karen |
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"old hoodoo" wrote in message
Here in Victoria we had an F-101 that when we got it, we prepared pads and metal supports to secure it and get the tires off the ground. Not a particularly difficult or expensive task. Sir Frances Chichester flew his Gypsy Moth through an typhoon in the orient when he turned up at the wrong hangar to berth it. He reasoned that it was designed to fly at the same airspeeds it was threatened with. What sort of planes do the US consider worth keeping that couldn't do that? -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG |
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Hope the SNB-5P made it. It was one of the planes we used for our photo
training hops in the 50s - with Navy and Marine APs as pilots. Frank - 34 yrs USN "Thomas A. Hoffer" wrote in message ... I copied this article segment from a local Pensacola newspaper. Looks the exhibits suffered no damage with minor damage to the building itself. While it mentions some damage to static aircraft displays outside, it sounds like nothing was totally destroyed. I'm curious if the "significant" damage to some planes is fixable. " The National Museum of Naval Aviation was almost unscathed by the storm. Nichols said there were a few leaks in the roof, but the exhibits inside were unharmed. Some of the historic aircraft parked on the tarmac behind the museum were damaged, however. The canopy of an A-6 was sheared off. A couple of wings lay on the pavement and some planes, evidently blown off their moorings, had collided with other aircraft, causing significant damage." |
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