We’re about to add a big, strange-looking aircraft to the museum’s collection. On Friday September 2nd, an RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft is scheduled to arrive at Robins Air Force Base on board a C-5 Galaxy cargo airplane. After museum restoration …
Work continues here at the Museum of Aviation on many projects, including our move of the Tuskegee Exhibit and the conversion of Hangar One to a dedicated Southeast-Asia theme. Within the next few weeks I will have an update on …
I am a P-51 convert. The sound of that Packard/Rolls-Royce Merlin V-12 and the scream that a Mustang has while pulling through a hard turn gives me goose-bumps. The Mustang is, for lack of a better word, beautiful. Or is …
I apologize for the lack of recent activity on the blog; changes in the Air Force network have left me with very limited access to the WordPress site and therefore hindered my ability to post here. It has also turned …
Just a few notes of interest, links to interesting websites and some further reading for everyone today. Enjoy it! – Pascal Le Deunff, the consul general of France in Atlanta, presented World War II veterans the Legion of Honor at …
Working with veterans is one of the most rewarding aspects of my job here at the Museum of Aviation. The stories and experiences of these men and women are always interesting and often heart-wrenching. I grew up hearing these types …
A while back, when we first started this blog, I promised to offer a meet the staff feature from time to time. This post will be the first such entry. It is our hope that the meet the staff feature …
I am just the right age and just the right demographic to remember a time before computers, cell phones and social media. But times, they are a changin’. The first computer I got came in a big cow-colored box and …
For someone who loves aviation and military history, I basically have a dream job. I get to immerse myself in a world that I have been immersing myself in for years, only now I get paid to do it. You …