FLa or bust!

[art of a2]

I will be visiting the 'Sunshine state' later this month. Is there any good aviation related sights that may be worth visiting in this area?

 

[interbak]

US National Navy Museum of Flight in Pensacola, Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton are a couple of good ones if you're in the Panhandle area.

Brian

 

[Nickb123]

Maybe you can get an in on a U-2 sortie over Cuba?!

 

[YoungMedic]

There is a new museum in Keystone Heights thats a bit off the beaten path, I have not visited but it looks really promising.

Also NAS Jax has some cool static displays.

http://www.wingsofdreams.org/

The 8th AF museum is just about 2 hrs north of Jax too

http://mightyeighth.org/

 

[art of a2]

Thanks for that guys..I was in Florida some 15 years ago when I was married. I remember going to a 'Flying Tigers' museum or something like that. Is there also a 'Museum of Flight' as well..or was I somewhere else in the U.S.?

 

[Phantomfixer]

http://www.warbirdadventures.com/air_museum
and if you make further north the 8th Museum in GA right off I95 it is on the northern border of GA though...

 

[leper-colony]

http://www.fantasyofflight.com/

 

[Jeff M]

Maybe you can get an in on a U-2 sortie over Cuba?!

And if you can't........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoMDq4AyLc

Worth watching.

 

[art of a2]

Thanks fellas 'looking good'..

 

[art of a2]

Thanks fellas 'looking good'..

 

[Stony]

Is there also a 'Museum of Flight' as well..or was I somewhere else in the U.S.?

The Museum of Flight is in Seattle, about 3k miles from where you're going to be.

 

[Hobbstc]

http://www.fantasyofflight.com/

Yep, I was just there a couple of weeks ago. Kermit Weeks, the owner, flies one of his planes every day. That day he gave a demo of a Hellcat. Incredible to watch it fly.