Today I visited the National Naval Aviation Museum located on the Naval Air Station in Pensacola. This naval station is home to the amazing exhibition flight group The Blue Angels. The museum had a huge display of aircraft including planes from the early days of flight, World War I and World War II planes, Cold War era planes, an Apollo Space Exhibit, and modern day planes and helicopters used by the military. Highlights included seeing a helicopter that carried President Nixon and the first fighter jet to land on an air craft carrier with a president on board. On May 1, 2003, President George W. Bush flew in the co-pilot seat of a S-3B Viking and landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln to give his "Mission Accompllished" speech. This was a fantastic stop and I learned a great deal about naval aviation.
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