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Trans America Cycling Day 41 - Orange Beach, AL to Milton, FL

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The link to today's route and statistics is found here . The highlight of the day was visiting the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola.  There are over 400 volunteers at the museum, many of whom lead excellent tours explaining the significance of aircraft on display.  In this way there is no entrance fee to the museum, making it the number one tourist attraction in Pensacola. Many airplanes are on display in multiple hangers, with more outdoors.  We could have spent days at the museum. Cyclists posed in front of a fascinating sculpture at the entrance to the museum.    The sculpture depicts a WWII pilot reliving his flight with Naval Aviators from   WWI, Korean conflict, Vietnam and Gulf War. 5 cyclists (Jim, Ray, Roberto, Barry and John) and 5 pilots (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Gulf War) Outside the front door of the museum is an F-14 Tomcat fighter, the type of aircraft flown in the movie Top Gun. Gruman F-14 Tomcat, the aircra