Note from curator Mike Rowland: Ross Schumacher, who recently graduated from Veterans High School, came to the museum during the spring semester as part of the “Professional Interest Exploration” program. I asked Ross to share some thoughts about his experience at the …
A few weeks back I stood under an unusually cool but very beautiful sunny April sky and listened as Ms. Julie Praiss, Vice President, Tactical Aircraft and Weapons Systems (Sustainment) at Boeing talked about the F-15E Strike Eagle model that …
Words mean quite a lot to a young person who is first learning them. They can be taken quite literally. I remember being a young child and hearing my dad talk very fondly about one of the jets that regularly …
Modern technology amazes me. Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak with someone on the phone. That experience in and of itself is completely common these days. However, this person was a close friend who is serving in the military …
The Museum of Aviation’s F-102 was moved up Georgia Highway 247 this past Saturday. If you have never seen an aircraft move here (and we move them fairly regularly) it is a neat sight. It is just unusual to see …
The history of Robins Air Force Base, as told through this museum and most official sources, is one devoid of much pain, loss and suffering. There is only limited acknowledgement here of the price of freedom that is paid by …
Last Saturday, my two oldest daughters and I went to a Laughing Pizza concert at the Cox Capitol Theatre in Macon. Laughing Pizza is a family band made up of the husband and wife team of Billy Schlosser and Lisa …