My visit to the National Naval Aviation Museum

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Recently, my family and I took our vacation close to Pensacola, FL.  Besides the awesome weather, hanging out on the beach, and wonderful seafood, one of the exciting things for me was being able to visit the National Naval Aviation Museum located just outside of Pensacola.  Let's face it - most of us RC'ers love full scale aviation as well and for many this is why they get in the hobby.  If we can't afford to fly the real thing, we want to at least enjoy hobby model flying right?  The NNAM is a great place to see some really nice Naval aviation history and see up close many of the planes we all have grown to love.  One of the many attractions to this museum is that it has a large focus on the Blue Angels Naval aviation demonstration team as they are based in Pensacola, so you can see the F-18's they fly today to the F4 phantoms they used to fly as well as the A4's even farther back.  Aside from the Blue angels, there are a lot of really great planes that span from WWI era to the Korean war era planes.

Below are some of the pictures that I took at the museum to showcase just a small piece of what you will see if you visit.  They have added quite a few exhibits as of late as well as several really cool realistic simulators as well that can be experienced.  Check out their official website here:  https://www.navalaviationmuseum.org

Also, really cool is a couple of mobile apps that you can download for both IOS as well as Android devices.  They are the Mobile Museum App and the Blue Angels App.  You can experience both the museum as well as the Blue Angels flight team via your mobile device.

If you are into aviation both RC or full scale, do yourself a favor and check out the National Naval Aviation Museum.  It is great fun with awesome planes and one of the best features for families on budgets these days is that it is free!

FREE Admission
Open Tue-Fri 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sat & Sun 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(850) 452-3604

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