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The Friday banquet was a wonderful affair where members got to meet the many spouses that accompanied the Society members. The Museum resides on an active naval base, so wandering and poking around was not an option. The SB2C-4 sat front and center right on trestles inside the gate, flanked by its demated engine and wing. The fenced storage area held a treasure trove of dozens of intact aircraft (A-4s, Fat Albert, S2Fs, Neptune) as well as the Curtiss Helldiver that recently emerged from a California reservoir ( ). Regrettably, the Maintenance Facility Hangar was not available to us, and that alone could have consumed a day. I never got to the outside aircraft park. The National Naval Aviation Museum ( ) is a spectacular facility, with engines, aircraft, displays, mountable cockpit sections, and an IMAX theater that filled a half day but left much more to be explored. Let history note the darker quarter panels on the painted spinner are bright red. Outside the entertaining company of my fellow members and T he Bricklayer, the true gem of the evening for me was a color film of the ground and flight testing of the XP-47H with the Chrysler XI-2220 engine in Evansville, Indiana.

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Movie night on Thursday was a smorgasbord of topics from aircraft and engine videos of every sort to paralyzingly funny English audio rendition of The Bricklayer. I’m not sure you could find such a line up anywhere else, and we are indebted to the presenters for their investment and excellence in their topics.īreaks were filled with animated discussion and looking over two tables of items for silent auction.

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The talks this year were diverse and authoritatively presented: aircraft diesels, Sir Harry Ricardo, speed-density fuel controls, Merlin engine installation testing at Rolls-Royce, contra-rotating propeller aircraft, and the interesting geopolitical, national/commercial, and technical history of the ATAR series of turbojet engines. And they found and returned my coveted Miss Ashley II t-shirt to me long after I departed. The Crowne Plaza Pensacola hotel itself, the food, and the staff were outstanding, although the 5:40 am, (or was it 2:20 am?) freight train thundering by had some folks thinking Blitz! I never heard a thing. Pensacola is a clean town with water everywhere you look, and the Gulf Coast is mild, beautiful, and quiet in the calendar sweet spot between Spring Break and the Summer Occupation. Some members spent the early part of the week visiting Mobile, Alabama to see the battleship USS Alabama and Continental Motors, Inc. Energy and smiles filled the ballroom, with Dave Birch and Fred van der Horst coming across the pond, and John Brand down from Toronto, to join the proceedings. The hotel shuttle got me to the hotel in time for the Wednesday night kick-off hors d’oeuvres and a chance to say hello to my fellow engine heads.

Traveling to Pensacola from Chicago by way of Atlanta took around four hours and was without hassle. If you do not have QuickTime, here is a larger panorama) Photo Courtesy of Bill Brogdon ( click for a larger image)Ĭourtesy of Bill Brogdon ( click to animate, requires QuickTime 2012 Convention Attendees at the National Naval Aviation Museum

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