I was expecting: "this is not a tank, this here is also not a tank, now this here is most definitively not a tank..." :)

@Decybello

6 жыл бұрын

True, and then : "So it appears, that they don't have anything interesting over here. So, see you in the next one. (fadeout)"

@WildBillCox13

6 жыл бұрын

hehe good one m8.

Any museum that allows you to go 'hands on' has got my vote.

Those are some pretty strange looking tanks...

8:35 "I will find the vodka"

My wife’s and I favorite museum. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been there. The amazing thing is that every time I go, they have managed to squeeze something new in.

17:12: VFA 151's plaque with a silhouette of the USS REEVES, who one of their pilot's bombed on October 20, 1989. We gave the pilot a "door" prize later, the watertight door he blew off the hinges...

Thank you Nicolas for the update tour! I received my Naval Officer Commission there in 1988 after AOCS. It sure has grown since then. I will definitely have to go back for a refresher. USN 1987-2008.

The pulsating blur effect is reminding me an awful lot of that time I ate a fungus I probably shouldn't have.

I have visited this museum about 7 times, most recently last October. It just keeps getting better. The second floor is worth a visit. That helicopter with the Nixon dummy is the actual helicopter he departed the White House on after resigning. The plane with GW Bush's name on it is the one he landed in on the carrier for the infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech.

The nice thing about a naval air museum is that they can fold all the aircraft to cram more in.

I've been to many aviation museums across the US, from Pima to the National Museum of the US Air Force to the Smithsonian and many smaller museums in between. But Pensacola holds the top spot. It has the best mix of rare aircraft, historically significant planes, and access to the history of any museum I've visited. I need to go back.

It's great to have this as my local museum, go their every 3 years or so and have since I was a wee lad.

@williambinkley8879

4 жыл бұрын

Abe Dekok you’re so lucky.

Walking up to the Tomcat, "who ever doesn't know what this is, should be shot". 🤣🤣🤣

As always, thank you @TheChieftain for the great video. You give many of us a chance to see things we may not get to in person.

Dude, you walked right by the SBD Dauntless , she's a Veteran of the Pearl Harbor attack and the Battle of Midway!, the AVG (Flying Tiger) P40 is displayed to honor those Naval Aviators (like Greg Boyington USMC) who joined Colonel Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group (AVG), and the B25 was there as a Doolittle Raider (you know Thirty Seconds over Tokyo), other-wise Great Vlog!. Scott :-)

@calvingreene90

6 жыл бұрын

The navy operated B-25 bombers as the PBJ-1 mostly as antisubmarine warfare platforms.

@Anlushac11

6 жыл бұрын

USN also flew B-25's as PBJ-1. Only correlation I am aware of with Me-262 is they were shipped to US on a Carrier. Cabot was a CVE and I was still shocked at how small Island was. Turtle was a P2V Neptune.

@metsoneredsoxtwo

6 жыл бұрын

Anlushac11: that's Correct the US Navy and the USMC had and Flew PBJ-1's during WW II, but, the B25 in the Vlog was Painted and Dressed as a B25C Dootlittle Raider, this year was the 75th, Ann of the Raid after all, and the Me262 is the Only Two - Seat that was kept by the USN after Testing Post WW II.

@maxwellclark6992

4 жыл бұрын

Anlushac11 we actually used the Me-262 to fight the South Africans in the great Oreo war of 1946

This is one of my favorite aviation museums. Not only does it have an tremendous collection of aircraft that you can actually walk up and touch but it also has a full service bar and restaurant with the decorations from the Cubi Point Officers Club. Thanks for the video.

Wow as a pilot I love the accessibility to the acft. Crewing on a B25 I've grown with aviation as a family that ran an airport for over 47 years. You can get near and dear to these acft. Thanks Nick.

The Chieftain. With flying and floating things?!

@Lumberjackk

6 жыл бұрын

seems legit

@sirmoke9646

6 жыл бұрын

As a military historian? How dare he?

@ExUSSailor

6 жыл бұрын

All except for the Skyraider. Those things WERE tanks!

Oh Shit! The aircraft is on fire!

This was one of my favorite military museums. The lighthouse is very neat as well.

Thank you for the walk down memory lane! This museum was only a far off dream when I was earning my Wings of Gold I'm Pensacola .❤️🤔

I volunteered there every weekend when I was stationed at NATTC Pensacola "A" school with the Navy. Would have lost my mind if I had seen the cheiftan there.

A very large museum. I will have to visit sometime. I have been all over that area but never stopped there for some reason. Haha, I JUST watched an episode of MASH, came back to finish the video, and perfect timing on the helicopter.

Mate no stabiliser will fix this, you need a camera instead of a potato...

@sylvainjacquet2753

6 жыл бұрын

yep, a real camera can remove this jellow effect.

@dylanclark9488

6 жыл бұрын

He's Irish, it's in his nature

@johnplayer3093

5 жыл бұрын

I'm a bit late, but lower yer standards a bit, footage is sufficiently clear without the need for editing. It's casual and it's great

When I was stationed at nearby NTTC CORRY STATION, I spent a lot of time at the Naval Aviation Museum. A Tomcat had just placed on permanent public display the first time I went. It was the only one on permanent public display at the time. Every year the Tomcat Squadrons held a competition to raise money for charity, the squadron that raised the most would have their markings painted on the museum's Tomcat. I have been to the Air Force's Museum as well, Navy's is brighter and more "hands on" as well. I haven't been there since the expansion in the 1990s. Great video, thank you!

Nice vid. To chime in on stabilisation, a stabiliser can give you very smooth, sharp images even from a phone. And if it's for a phone, it's very small and portable. Might be worth it if you're going to do many more of these.

Nice video, I've been to the museum several times before and it's really nice.

Gotta say there is a lot of parts about living in panhandle Florida that I don’t enjoy, but having this museum just a quick hour away is a joy.

*Thanks for your informative video, Have a great time and be safe!*

I have been to a lot of war museums in the US and Europe but this one is my favorite. Beautiful museum.

Great tour, thanks

Mr. Moran is correct, this is a top tier museum. I have never been to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, it would certainly have more to offer. I've been to this museum maybe 10 times. I took both of my grandsons. They were a little young to appreciate most of it. Here are a few suggestions. First, eat a good breakfast. Second, DO NOT take your wife, if she is not an aviation history enthusiast. Third, go early. Start NLT than 10 AM. Fourth, bring an extra battery for your phone. Fifth, you can buy everything in the store, on line. Shop before or after. Sixth, there is now a second building with even MORE displays. There is only one thing I know that would improve the tour. Anyone that has ever worked in military aviation remembers the smell of hydraulic fluid. It's not a bad smell, but, it is always present. If they could safely contain a small amount of hydraulic fluid and have small fan blow it about, you could close your eyes and go back to "that" hanger or hanger deck. If you've read anything about military aviation, you'll want read more after a visit. One book I would recommend, it's on Audible, is "Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August-October 1942 By: Jeffrey R. Cox Narrated by: Joe Barrett". I have never read(heard) a more thoroughly researched book.

This brings back memories. I visited this museum many times with my father, who was a naval aviator for 22 years. I find the Chieftain's reference at 4:05 rather amusing "the upstairs is mainly children's education". Also upstairs is the Cubi point cafe, a recreation of the infamous Cubi Point officers club originally in the Phillipines (and featured in the movie Top Gun), which was my father's favorite part of the museum.

That is a fantastic museum

I really enjoy those tours but yes, as you said, you need to up your equippment, ask Wargaming for a good cam! :D

Thanks for the tour!

8:03.. That "Monster" is an AF-2S Guardian.. I have a friend in Texas who owns one and it's almost completely restored to air worthy condition.

@rednoob8954

6 жыл бұрын

ryan moeller nice

@norbertt11

6 жыл бұрын

ryan moeller very nice :D

@das_edelweiss8736

6 жыл бұрын

8:25, dose anyone in here know what plane is that?

@panzerfaust5046

6 жыл бұрын

Gotta say though, it does looks monstrous.

FYI, the 'Turtle' was a successful attempt by the Navy to set a new, and very high, record for nonstop un-refueled flight. Perth, Australia to Columbus, Ohio nonstop. The aircraft that broke that record was a B-52,....15-20 yrs. later.

@grievouslytired7886

6 жыл бұрын

Ira Spurlock When I first saw it, I thought it was a Focke-Wulfe Condor.

Maj Moran, have you been to the National Museum of the Air Force in Dayton, Ohio? If not, I think that you would find that the size and scope of that museum will completely blow your mind. It is the oldest and largest military aviation museum in the world. Easily 2-3x the size of the Naval Aviation Museum. An entire B-36 is in one of the buildings (a huge hangar), and to give you an idea of the size of just that building, it also is home to a B-2 spirit, B-47, B-58, AC-130, SR-71, a B-50, and a Martin RB-57. Those are just some of the larger planes out of the 61 in that building. There are 4 buildings about that size, with two additional buildings, the atrium and the Missile Gallery. Just an absolutely huge, incredibly well presented and laid out aviation museum. Here is the url : www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

The SBD that he showed was recovered from Lake Michigan. It is the only plane that exist that was at both the attack of Pearl harbor, and the battle of Midway. Rare very aircraft.

This place is great. Been lucky enough to visit in the flesh. got to talk to an AD-1 skyraider pilot and a german test pilot. great place and free too!

That B-25 outside was an exhibit about the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, which took off from the USS Hornet. and I believe the Curtis P-40 had something to do with transporting and flying them off to Pacific islands in WW2. Later the Marines used Grumman aircraft; they were tough enough for carriers and thus perfect for landing on rough airfields. My visit there in the 1988 was cut short because our wives were bored! My buddy had been in the Coast guard and he kept looking for CG planes and had to settle for the PBY.

Yes the US Navy had OV-10 Broncos. They were flown by the Marines. Interestingly we had a squadron of OV-10 Broncos that went aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) when my squadron VFA-87 was deploying to the first Gulf War. We made room for them by leaving our S-3 Vikings behind. When we reached the eastern Med, we lined the Broncos on the fantail, run up the engines and launched them Jimmy Doolittle raid on Tokyo style to the beach. They then went overland to provide forward recon target spotting for the Marines.

@GhostofCicero

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, I worked in support of them, Harriers and helicopters as well. We lost one to ground fire when the pilot got a little too aggressive with his 4 M60's. He and the backseater were captured.

@IronPhysik

6 жыл бұрын

in vietnam the USN flew their own OV-10s VAL-4 "Black ponies" stationed in the mekong delta until 1972

man ive been to this place more times than i can count

P40 a few members of the Flying Tigers were Naval Aviators including Pappy Boyington, and the B-25 is from the Doolittle Raid. Ov-10 was the USMC which are Naval Aviators, and there is also Coast Guard Aircraft, which are also considered Naval aviators, and get their primary flight training at Pensacola.

@lhcwresslar5033

6 жыл бұрын

ThumperE23 boington was Marine aviation not naval

@ThumperE23

6 жыл бұрын

Marine Aviators are type classified as Naval Aviators, by themselves as they wear the wings of gold and are part of the Naval Department. Marines got through the same Primary Flight Training, and in fact Naval Carrier Air Wings usually have a Marine Squadron with it. But I knew Boyington was a Marine...with you look at his squadron VMF-214 that is a Naval Designation, Heavier Than Air, Marine fighter Squadron 214, where the navy version doesn't have the M in the designation.

That is one hell of a museum. Jesus! :D

The F-14 Tomcat you showed is the F-14 that flew the last combat mission. They also have a Tomcat on loan to another museum that was the very last F-14 to launch from a carrier. As well as the sole surviving Tomcat prototype thats on the metal pedestal just outside the front doors. Another fun fact, one of the four Blue Angel painted A4 Skyhawks you showed was actually used in filming the movie Top Gun.

ha! I was there not to long ago. I loved it .

You should go to Dayton to see the Air Force Museum (and the Navy works its way in there too)

@adamdubin1276

6 жыл бұрын

The Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy center has a nice collection as well.

3:24 So, that's what Trump was referring to when he said "Covfefe"! Thanks for finally solving this tremendous, bigly mystery Chieftan! ;) Seriously though, great video, thanks for uploading this rapid tour! Keep up the awesome work! :D

That is the best air museum i have ever been too.

Man love the all of these videos but great to see the USN getting its in. And yes do Dayton with there and milk the old timers to get into the giant b36.

It's corrugated aluminum From everyone's favorite argument mill: "The Ford Trimotor using all-metal construction was not a revolutionary concept, but it was certainly more advanced than the standard construction techniques of the 1920s. The aircraft resembled the Fokker F.VII Trimotor (except for being all-metal which Henry Ford claimed made it "the safest airliner around").[3] Its fuselage and wings followed a design pioneered by Junkers[4] during World War I with the Junkers J.I and used postwar in a series of airliners starting with the Junkers F.13 low-wing monoplane of 1920 of which a number were exported to the US, the Junkers K 16 high-wing airliner of 1921, and the Junkers G 24 trimotor of 1924. All of these were constructed of aluminum alloy, which was corrugated for added stiffness, although the resulting drag reduced its overall performance.[5] So similar were the designs that Junkers sued and won when Ford attempted to export an aircraft to Europe.[6] In 1930, Ford countersued in Prague, and despite the possibility of anti-German sentiment, was decisively defeated a second time, with the court finding that Ford had infringed upon Junkers' patents.[6] "

My favorite museum growing up....plus the blue angels train there win win

Thanks Chieftain! I've always wanted to go there but I'm too far away.

I used to work on those early AV8As. '74 -'77. I was an Avionics/Aircraft elec tech. Would have loved a shot of the tail. I could have known what squadron it represented. Possibly even recognized a BuNo, and wondered if it was one I worked on.

Nice museum

B25 was placed on pavement that was supposed to represent Hornet CV launch.

We have an awesome air museum here in Moreno Valley CA. The March Air Museum.

I really need to get there sometime.

The Cutlass was mostly considered "bad" due to its underpowered engines, and, (due to its swept wings), needing a higher landing speed with a taller nose gear to allow the wing to "grab air". The pilots had trouble seeing the ship's deck when landing until Vought added a seat that could raise up higher when landing.

The only legitimate reason to go to Pensacola. Also they were utilizing UAV's in Vietnam! Which I just learned relatively recently and instantly felt just a little more world-wary having learned it.

Air Force museum in Dayton Ohio is like 5 giant hangars. Well worth a visit.

And that blimp gondola looks suspiciously like the most successful airship of all time: The K-class. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-class_blimp The USN used them for ASW work along the coasts and convoy lanes.

I visited in '93, and I remember they had cookie sheets under all the round engines (radials) to catch the leaking oil. Perhaps they WERE ready for flight!

Some people are surprised when they see the small Coast Guard section in the Naval Aviation Museum. What a lot of people don’t realize is that the Coast Guard attends the Navy’s flight school and wear the same naval aviator wings of gold as the Navy’s fixed wing or rotary wing pilots.

TheChieftainWoT, I wish you could of done this back in 2012 when i was stationed at NAS Pensacola. Its a good museum and well worth a look at. While your down there check out an Irish pub and restaurant called McGuire's.

Oh man I really want to watch this, but on a day when I'm nauseous with a splitting headache.

thanks chieftain!

I just have a thing for seaplanes and flying boats. So cool.

OMG I was there three weeks ago!!

About an hour west is the uss Alabama which would probably need its own two part series.

The AVF , the American force in China famous for the shark mouthed P-40, was primarily staffed by Marine and Navy pilots and I imagine that is the P-40 connection,

Are you going to do the National Air Force Museum?

Curiously enough, there was a stuffed Snoopy in that Sopwith Camel a few years ago when I was there.

How are you enjoying florida? The National Naval Aviation museum is one of my favorites, along with the D-Day museum in New Orleans. Did you get to watch the Blue Angels?

Ah, my old stomping grounds. That place sure has gotten big.

Chieftain now wishing he worked for Gaijin.

@rebelliousnature4795

5 жыл бұрын

starfleethastanks well actually "World of Warplanes" just got released for early access.

@vertik7

5 жыл бұрын

Actually World of Warplanes was released five years ago. Early access was for Steam.

@doas6311

5 жыл бұрын

@@rebelliousnature4795 and yet it is still shitty or as good as planes in wt?

Try the Dayton Air Museum; there’s great stuff there, too!

Just in time, I was about to close off KZread and do something with my life!

@TheChieftainsHatch

6 жыл бұрын

Be careful. It's scary out there.

The NC4 is the 1 that survived the flight, the Navy did have its own version of the B25, and recall that the Doolittle raid took off from Hornet CV8 The P40 is probably related to Boyington, who was a Flying Tiger before going back to the Marines

Come to Tucson, Arizona for the Pima Air and Space Museum and Boneyard! Just come during winter, cause it gets upwards of 110° in Summer.

@jayrodmurderface

6 жыл бұрын

Seriously, we have a B-36 Peacemaker!!!

@jayrodmurderface

6 жыл бұрын

*The Chieftain*

Chieftain, if you ever get close to Dayton check out the USAF Museum. It's awesome!!!

It is a treasure. Like to learn something you didn't know. Do some reading on the PBY4 Privateer and the number of aircraft it shot down. Close relative of the Liberator.

9:36 mash I love that show

A temporary aberration when you called the Coronado a seaplane- but later you were correctly describing a flying boat as a flying boat!

Please tell me the other hangars had an A-10 Thunderbolt II.

Any sign of CV-3 or CV-6 among their big warship models?

Still waiting for that Char B tour.....

I didn't know about that second hanger. Now I have an excuse to go back.

Wonder what land based George is doing there.....or the P-40 in Flying Tigers paint scheme....

@DeosPraetorian

6 жыл бұрын

michal0310 Flying Tigers were Navy and marine pilots

You need to go to the Dayton air force museum, been a while since I've been there, I don't know if you can film.

I was stationed there 1996 - 1997.

I believe that during the tests of the Me262 was there were Naval Aviators that tested it with the USAAF/USAF and when they were done with the tests they requested one for history sake and got the only surviving two seater.

@Imbeachedwhale

6 жыл бұрын

ThumperE23 there are two other two-seaters, but those are night fighters. That 262 is the only trainer left.

@ThumperE23

6 жыл бұрын

It was based on memory from seven years plus ago from what they said on the plate. It might be the only Two seat Me262 in the US. Sorry for the detail error.

@Imbeachedwhale

6 жыл бұрын

ThumperE23 No worries, we all get the details wrong on something.

@mightyirish

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to say the same. I believe a lot of the testing occurred at NAS Patuxent River.

Hey I am going to school there for airframes. I was just there this past labor day weekend.

I live less than an hour and a half away, shoulda told me you would come, when are you coming to battleship park USS Alabama?

@williama.walker2287

4 жыл бұрын

There are tanks there😀. They need a lot of work, but maybe the publicity will encourage some entrepreneurs to step up and restore them.

Tank's would be lovely

Heck in the Army Museum in Toledo, Spain, they gave me hell for touching a freaking T-26 tank! But in Pensacola you can touch most things! Great place! (Also, being spanish, I have to brag about the fact that Pensacola was captured by the spanish navy during the american revolution)

@Cirux321

6 жыл бұрын

Carlos I Well, Florida was originally colonized by Spain. Pensacola in fact, is the oldest known colony in the US. The original settlement, dating back to the 16th century and founded by Tistian de Luna, was actually wiped out by a hurricane and was rebuilt later after St. Augustine.

@panzerabwerkanone

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but paybacks were a bitch at Cuba.

@jaaksootak318

6 жыл бұрын

Carlos I Now this is one of the most interesting exhibits in our museum, the tank. It is designed to survive heavy enemy fire... DONT TOUCH IT!

Here's hoping the hurricane gives this place a miss, along with the USS Alabama.

@jasonirwin4631

6 жыл бұрын

the Alabama and this place have dealt with dozens of hurricanes and at worst there is a few broken windows. Alabama is a massive steel warship it more than hurricane to damage it and the aviation museum is built to take well above a cat 5 hurricane.

@jbowers895

6 жыл бұрын

Jason Irwin actually at the Alabama hurrican Katrina flooded the hanger they have damaging some aircraft inside quite heavily while the Bama has sustained slight lists along with flooding through the years due to hurricanes which after they built the enclosure surrounding it also sustained a list while on its supports from Katrina. the Drum (submarine next to the Bama) has sustained damage while it was still kept in the water and I think it has also sustained damage since they moved it on land although im not sure on that. The hanger in particular had some aircraft that were pretty mangled which could very well happen in Pensacola which did received slight damage in the early 2000s though very minor if I recall correctly.. I grew up in mobile and practically lived aboard that ship to the annoyance of my parents but the point is nothing is safe from nature

Are you going to Bovington any time soon?