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Both my sons served onboard NAS Pensacola, so I've been fortunate to visit this museum 3 or 4 times. I get lost in the history for hours. Love it.

@petreskyfilms

4 ай бұрын

It's by far the most impressive and captivating aviation museum I've ever seen! Cheers!

Fantastic museum, way more than a one day tour, been there twice and would love to spend a couple of days there again.

Love the random narration that was done on this video

Check out the National WW2 Museum in New Orleans some time. I went to this museum and the New Orleans WW2 museum on the same road trip about 5 or 6 years ago for a Navy reunion in New Orleans for one of the destroyers I served on. I even met an old WW2 tin can sailor while fishing one day in Apalachicola. He had been wounded by a Kamikaze. That was an epic trip!

@petreskyfilms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! ...definitely have to do those next time we're there!

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the Nola National WW2 museum is fantastic. So is the War in the Pacific museum in Fredericksburg Texas, the hometown of Admiral Chester Nimitz.

@retiredguyadventures6211

Жыл бұрын

@@joinjen3854 I'm planning on going to the War in the Pacific Museum next June!

I first visited this museum over two decades ago and went back about two years ago. Is a great museum.

just got back from the museum. They have tours available, times are posted as you walk in. Our guide was a WWII vet. LOTS of interesting things we learned about both the war, the people, and of course physics of flight and how different forces affect pilots. If you have the opportunity, go and visit. Certainly worth the admission fee ;)

thank you so much for making this available, looks amazing! Hope to visit soon :)

My earliest childhood memory was coming here when I was 3 and having my mind blown

What an awesome tour..I will have to go..lThank you for such a great video..

My grandfather was in the Navy and took me here when I was very young. Super sad it's not open to the public

@petreskyfilms

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed...

Thank You! It’s been many years since I visited there. Glad to see the new additions and everything kept so nice. I hope the public will be allowed to go in one day.

@petreskyfilms

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Yes, it's really a shame that visitation is so restricted. Cheers!

Great place to go on vacation. And Fort Pickens.

I would love to go this museum one day I a big fan of Naval Aviation!!!!😃

Great vid. I particularly loved the F18s flying at the end. I hadn't seen a loop flown in formation with wheels and hooks down before.

We just returned from a trip to Pensacola. Saturday we toured the aviation museum. I got to see the plane my father flew in WW2. Very interesting place. Great video!

Great video definitely going to have to check it out. Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the tour.

I grew up on Pensacola Beach Florida and Gulf Breeze and my grandfather survived the sinking of the Lexington 1 and he showed me were he was on a model which my grandmother was there and my uncle who retired as a general flying the F-16 Viper and survived the attack on the Pentagon ❤️

visited in 2016. Best museum ive been to

Awesome video

One of the best air museumsb

I was there last week. I spent a long time talking to one of their curators about donating a WWII artifact from a Navy Aircraft carrier, that I got from an uncle, a WWII Vet, 60 years ago.

@petreskyfilms

7 ай бұрын

That would be a generous act. Let us know if it works out, and what the artifact is. Cheers!

@billkallas1762

7 ай бұрын

@@petreskyfilms The artifact is a fire axe. My uncle "liberated" it from CVL-23 Princeton, when he transferred off the ship. He was a lucky man. The ship was later sunk by a Judy dive bomber. I'm a lazy person. I haven't called them yet. I've got the email and name for the curator in charge of artifacts.

Awesome

I'd love to be able to sit in their F4F Wildcat .. always been a dream of mine

I noticed the Tomcat was VF213, Black Lions. That was my squadron. I worked on the Tomcat.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the Parachute !

Sure is a cool museum, it’s on my bucket list, you should visit the National Museum of the United States Air Force, I live 50 minutes south of it and to me it’s the best aviation museum in the world

I have a wood propeller with navy markings. diameter 96 inches and thought it could be from an NC flying boat. looks like one of two propellers put together for the pusher engine. It has a navy anchor stamped on it.

@petreskyfilms

6 ай бұрын

That would be a really cool wall hanger in a man cave!

My understanding is that since the attack on base only active duty, veterans, (I am Navy) and invited guest can visit the museum. You can’t just drive on base to see the museum anymore.

@petreskyfilms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's my understanding as well ~ though I don't understand why the restriction is still in place, unless the Covid scare is playing a part. The attack was 2 1/2 years ago and didn't even involve a 'civilian guest'. I suppose they have their reasons... Cheers, and thanks for watching!

@tholmes2169

Жыл бұрын

It’s reopened to the public now. Check their site.

I tried to go here on my last trip to Pensacola. I couldn’t get in due to lack of military in my family. I’m not too upset about it but just a heads up for all of the people who don’t know

@petreskyfilms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the update, Hunter. It's really a shame that so many people can't visit this incredible museum.

@tholmes2169

Жыл бұрын

Good news, it’s reopened to the public.

I looked and did not see a Lockheed P3 Orion, may have miss it.

@petreskyfilms

Жыл бұрын

My brother-in-law flew a P3 Orion during his service time with the Navy. It started raining by the time I finished filming indoors, and so I skipped the outdoor section where they may have had one. Cheers!

Very nice presentation -- I hope to see it one day -- AD2 - VR-7 & VF191 - 1953-57

This museum needs to be open to public anybody know why they are not.

@petreskyfilms

Жыл бұрын

www.pnj.com/story/opinion/editorials/2022/05/07/nas-pensacola-base-needs-reopen-public-after-terrorist-attack/9649210002/

With a VA card, can I get onto the base and into the museum? Navy aviation veteran. Thanks.

@petreskyfilms

Жыл бұрын

Here's a link to the Pensacola NAS Museum access policy, I hope it helps. Cheers! www.navalaviationmuseum.org/access-to-nas-pensacola/

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

@@petreskyfilms thanks. I can get in with my VA health card.

I've tried to go to the museum twice and it was closed. My understanding is it is not going to be reopened for a long time or ever.

@petreskyfilms

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and what a shame; It's one of the best air museums I've ever been to. NAS Pensacola closed their gates to the general public following a 'terrorist' shooting in December 2019 and haven't opened them since. Wikipedia has a good description of the incident. Thanks for your interest.

@6605jeremy

2 жыл бұрын

I tried going last summer, it was open. But couldn't get in because I dont have an active duty ID. If you want to get on base to see it, you need to know sombody with an ID to get you on base.

@looneytunes47

2 жыл бұрын

Why? cause of stupid Covid BS?

@petreskyfilms

2 жыл бұрын

@@looneytunes47 Aahh! That makes more sense... ...I bet you're right. It didn't make any sense to me that they'd be shut down for a 'terrorist' attack from 2019 when the 'terrorist' was a flight student from Saudi. Anyway, it stinks that the general public can't get in and see this awesome museum. Millions and millions of dollars worth of vintage warbirds...

@joinjen3854

Жыл бұрын

It is OPEN to current DOD, active duty and veterans with a health card. It is right on their website.

mitsubishi zero !

@petreskyfilms

Жыл бұрын

It's thought that this aircraft may have come from a group of Japanese aircraft captured on Saipan Island in April 1944.

@masanobukuroshima3359

Жыл бұрын

​@@petreskyfilms I am Japanese . Thank you for telling me

He said the parachute was not yet invented for world war 1. Yes it was! Pilots just weren't allowed them for some stupid reason. They were in their infancy admittedly, but still would've been much better than nothing! It was thought that if the pilots had them, they would be cowards and jump at the first sign of danger, which is simply ridiculous given the bravery and courage of those men. It's an insult. What they would've had, like in world war 2, is lots of shot down pilots surviving and able to fly and fight again. Pure stupidity really.