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Sit in the cockpit of a vintage warbird. Today is the F7F Tigercat. Inside an air-conditioned hangar. Please remember to wear comfortable clothes and rubber soled shoes. Physical restrictions may apply.

The Korean War was the first major conflict of the Cold War between the Western powers and the Communist nations in the years following World War Two. Although it lasted only 3 years, it cost millions of lives and devastated both North and South Korea. The threats and hostilities actually continue on today because military actions ended with a truce, not a treaty. We’ll discuss why this war is so often overlooked and why it shouldn't be in light of…

Sit inside the cockpit of a vintage warbird. Today's open cockpit is the P-47 Thunderbolt, inside an air conditioned hangar. Please remember to wear comfortable clothing and rubber soled shoes.

From Eagle Scout to USAF Lt. Col, with combat experiences in both the Korean and Vietnam conflicts the story of Dean Hunter’s military career is one that you’ll have to hear first hand to believe. Accidently sent to Korea as a Marine Pvt. without any combat training, Hunter went on to become one of the highest-decorated officers for heroism in the US Air Force. Author, educator and American hero Dr. Dean Hunter relates his experiences from ground pounder to pilot…

KAL flight 007 was scheduled to fly from New York City to Seoul via Anchorage, Alaska. On 1 September 1983 however, the Boeing 747 airliner serving the flight was blown out of the sky by a Soviet Su-15 interceptor. The Soviet Union initially denied knowledge of the incident, but later admitted shooting down the aircraft, claiming that it was on a spy mission. Our speaker was a 20 year old United States Marine intercept operator with a front seat on…

In the Vietnam War, SAR (Search and Rescue) became a big priority for the United States due to the vast scale of the war and an environment largely covered in thick jungle growth. The American military’s ability to perform effective Combat Search and Rescue missions was in the early days of the Vietnam War not adequate and wasn’t set up for such tasks. The rescue forces were mainly designed for cold war and local base rescue – not a jungle…

On October 20, 1944, General Douglas MacArthur watched the Sixth Army storm ashore on the Philippine island of Leyte. Meanwhile Admiral Soemu Toyoda, commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet, had deployed it into three separate naval forces to engage and crush the U.S. army and navy units mounting this invasion. This is the story of one of the largest and most decisive naval battles in military history. At its conclusion, the Japanese Combined Fleet was so badly mauled that it never…

Built as a replacement for the training planes of WWII the T-34 Mentor developed into an aircraft cherished by the military and civilian pilots alike. In fact the T-34 remains in service more than six decades after it was first designed. Come visit us as a group of T-34 pilots drop into the Air Museum for a weekend of flight exhibitions, formation flying, contests and just plane fun.