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| israeli | Jun 12 2007, 11:39 PM Post #1 |
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Air Force museum opens July By Tarra Quismundo Inquirer Last updated 11:12pm (Mla time) 06/12/2007 MANILA, Philippines -- After almost a decade of conception and construction, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) will open its new museum in time for its 60th anniversary next month. As the service marks its foundation anniversary, the PAF Aerospace Museum at the Villamor Air Base opens this July as a facility that is touted to offer pieces of civil and military aviation history and aerospace science and technology to the public. “It portrays the rich cultural heritage of the Air Force and captures the bravery of Filipino airmen during World War 2 and the succeeding internal conflicts,” said Colonel Eduardo Diano, museum project manager and curator. A brand new replacement to the old Air Force Museum, the three-story facility was among the buildings replicated for PAF by the state-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and the private developer Megaworld Corp., currently pursuing a commercial redevelopment project on part of the air base. The old museum, which used to stand in the site being converted as a commercial and recreational property, was earlier torn down to give way to the BCDA-Megaworld project. Last year, it hosted 175,000 visitors, many of them students, their teachers and parents, Diano said. The new P86-million facility was built over nine years, and construction crews are currently putting finishing touches, assembling displays and installing exhibits. The museum stands at the intersection of national roads spanning the Villamor Air Base complex, just within sight of the mothballed Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3. Adjacent to it is PAF's Aircraft Park, where 18 kinds of military aircraft had been permanently towed. “The museum will have two portions. The first floor will have interactive displays of modern aerospace science at the first floor and then at the second floor, we will put displays of the Air Force heritage and the history of aviation,” Diano told the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Tuesday while on a break from directing the installation of displays at the museum. At the topmost floor, meanwhile, museumgoers may stand on the viewing deck and enjoy the view of the air base and its surroundings. The ground floor will house an interactive display of aircraft parts such as turbines, landing gears, and engine cutouts, an old trainer and bomber aircraft where museum-goers may sit for the experience, and a jet simulator complete with a wall projection of a 135-degree view of what a pilot would see during a flight. Photos of former Air Force commanding generals, pilot classes and airmen engaged in combat missions will hang on walls of the upper floor. Scenes of history will meanwhile be captured in dioramas also to be placed at the second floor. The museum will feature a 50-seater theater, where museumgoers may watch war movies, a 300-seater all-purpose auditorium and a library with shelves filled with books on military history and other related reading materials. Diano said the Air Force has yet to decide if it will ask entrance fees, but said off-hand that P10 or P20 may be charged to visitors to cover maintenance costs and fund the development of other museums in air fields across the country. |
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| spearhead | Jun 15 2007, 08:47 PM Post #2 |
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Nice, now im curious. Any websites of this said new museum and photos? Thanks. :thumb: |
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| Tora^2 | Nov 12 2007, 11:23 PM Post #3 |
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Looks like the PAF Museum is really worth a visit
I hope to visit sometime this month |
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| Cygnus | Nov 21 2007, 09:19 PM Post #4 |
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Pics of the Cali T-610 Super Pinto... http://www.shareapic.net/content.php?gid=183722&owner=Cygnus |
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