Naval Air Station Pensacola / Maureen Smith Keillor and AMEC (AW/SW) Richard P. Keillor, MTS.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keillor, Maureen Smith., Author.

Keillor, Richard P., Author.

Series:

Images of aviation.

Images of America.

Images of aviation

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Air pilots, Military--United States--History--Pictorial works.

Air pilots, Military.

Airplanes, Military--United States--History--Pictorial works.

Airplanes, Military.

Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.)--History--Pictorial works.

Naval Air Station Pensacola (Fla.).

Pensacola (Fla.)--History, Military--Pictorial works.

Pensacola (Fla.).

United States. Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron--History--Pictorial works.

United States.

United States. Navy--Airmen--History--Pictorial works.

United States. Navy--Aviation--History--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : chiefly illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : Arcadia Publishing, [2014]

Summary:

A sign at the gate of Naval Air Station Pensacola (NASP) welcomes visitors to "The Cradle of Naval Aviation." And, indeed it is. The world's first naval aeronautical station, it came into being when the USS Mississippi (BB-23) arrived in Pensacola on January 20, 1914, with seven aircraft, nine officers, and 23 men. Today, NASP is a dynamic, active station, hosting several schools and several branches of the US military. It is also the home of the Navy's Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, as well as the renowned National Naval Aviation Museum (NNAM), which displays more than 100 years of naval aviation, from a replica Curtiss hydroplane to the F-14 Tomcat.

Contents:

Introduction : five flags over Pensacola

The beginning to 1940

World War II

The jet age and the Cold War

The Blue Angels

NAS Pensacola then and now

NAS Pensacola today.

OCLC:

900733225