Pensacola Naval Air Museum

 As you can see the guns on this plane were mounted in front of the cock pit.  When they were fired, bullet holes would be made in the propeller.  So they covered the area on the propellers with metal.  That did not work, because the bullets then ricocheted back toward the pilot.  They finally came up with a design that timed the firing of the bullets so that they did not hit the propeller.  Funny story about trial and error.

This plane was fished out of the Pacific Ocean.  It cleaned up very nicely.  The pilot Col Robert Galer was called and told they found the plane that he crashed into the Pacific.  He asked "which one?"  He crashed four of them.

 The Blue Angels are now grounded due to the Federal Government cut backs.  What a shame.  One of the Blue Angel pilots came and looked at this display after the museum got these planes mounted from the ceiling.  He said  "this isn't right.  They aren't close enough."

 

USA in the 1940's at the height of WW II.

 Below is the helicopter that carried Nixon from the White House after his resignation.

 

This was an interesting story about the evacuation in 1975 of a South Vietnam Air Force Major and his family.  He flew a bird dog (small Cessna) from a Vietnamese island to the Midway.  This is the plane that Cliff started his flight training in at Fort Rucker.

Below is the note that the Major threw down to the carrier.