NAS Pensacola Damage

Just talked to a long time family friend who is a docent at the NAM, he did a
lot of the flight line tours. While he lives in Cantonment and hasn't been back
to the museum since Ivan he mentioned that he understood all the NAM facilities
are in good shape. The Buffalo "should" be Ok but mentioned the flight line was
torn up pretty good. Ironic that he served as the CO of the Hurrican hunters
and was responsible for the NAM Connie being painted in a Hurricane Hunter
scheme and now to get wiped out by a Hurricane
He mentioned that the Captains row of Quarters that overlook the parade ground
had water up to the main floor. The new enlisted barracks on chavalie field had
waves comming in the second floor windows. That's a lot of water!!!
The rest of the base got it much worse, there is even rumor that it may be
cheaper to move the TRACOM than rebuild.
Sparky

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(Elmshoot) wrote:

Just talked to a long time family friend who is a docent at the NAM, he did a
lot of the flight line tours. While he lives in Cantonment and hasn't been
back
to the museum since Ivan he mentioned that he understood all the NAM
facilities
are in good shape. The Buffalo "should" be Ok but mentioned the flight line
was
torn up pretty good. Ironic that he served as the CO of the Hurrican hunters
and was responsible for the NAM Connie being painted in a Hurricane Hunter
scheme and now to get wiped out by a Hurricane
He mentioned that the Captains row of Quarters that overlook the parade
ground
had water up to the main floor. The new enlisted barracks on chavalie field
had
waves comming in the second floor windows. That's a lot of water!!!
The rest of the base got it much worse, there is even rumor that it may be
cheaper to move the TRACOM than rebuild.
Sparky


Would that put NAS Pensacola on the BRAC list and its eventual use as a
public airport, where we could actually fly in to see the Naval Aviation
Museum?

Extrapolating from my 1959 "Flight Jacket" - with alternating week
NavCad/MarCad and AOC's, and OI's every week - I would estimate 50/week
in Summer/Fall in Pre-flight. Of course that was the tail end of NA's
serving as VR/VP/VW navigators and VAH B/N's. They began training NAO's
(1960) as non-pilot navigators in Corpus Christi and B/N's in Whidbey
and Sanford (VAH RAG's had been training NAO's and enlisted B/N's and
third crewman from the AJ Savage days.) The first NAO(R)'s appeared with
VF-74's F4H-2's in 1962, probably trained in the VF RAG at Oceana.

In 1960, Corry, Barrin and Bronson were long closed; helo wings were
received in Ellyson, S2F/WF in New Iberia, single engine/multi engine
recips at Corpus, jets at Chase/Beeville or Kingsville.
Joel McEachen VAH-5

vincent p. norris wrote:
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:28:24 -0500, "John Carrier"
wrote:

...... About 15,000 airmen aviators and crews are trained there
annually.
... Most of those 15,000 are various enlisted schools grads.

Thanks for the clarification, John. That "15,000" jumped out at me,
and I couldn't believe it. Pensacola was going full speed ahead when
I went through, with ops at both Whitings, Corry, Saufley, Ellison,
and probably others I've forgotten, but it wouldn't have added up to
anywhere near 15,000 per year.

vince norris

Pensacola News Journal now has some aerial photos of NAS taken on 9/23.

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/.../aerial1.shtml

B. C. Ilfeld

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wrote:

Pensacola News Journal now has some aerial photos of NAS taken on 9/23.

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/.../aerial1.shtml

B. C. Ilfeld

Hmm, no photo's of the Bama and their web site is still down. Can't be
good.
Pugs