Midway Museum Tour

 What: Special FVCC tour on the Midway Museum carrier conducted by Jim Binford who has at sea experience on seven US and British carriers including USS MIDWAY. This tour will concentrate on carrier at sea operations, primarily from the bridge perspective, Combat Information Center (CIC), and Flag Plot War Room. However, attendees will be able to tour Midway’s other exhibits including flight deck aircraft, launch and recovery briefs, and movie Battle of Midway, engineering spaces and fire damage control. I recommend picking up the audio handset at the start of the tour for the remainder of the tour.

When:   Meet at 0730 for instruction and receive admission tickets. Depart NLT 0745 on 12 September 2024 from HWY 15/76 Park and Ride.  The reason for early departure is highway construction traffic and plan to board Midway at 0900 before the Museum opens to the public at 1000. Double up in car rides since public parking at the pier is now $20 per car and to use HOV lanes.

Particulars: Cost is a discounted group rate of $25 per person Use the following link to sign up to purchase tickets. ( https://Fallbrookvintagecarclub.org/product/midway-museum-tour/ NLT 30 August. When you sign up, indicate if you will be doing the BRIDGE tour(B) or the general ship tour (GS) spaces which will indicate which group you will be assigned. Sign up early since can only accommodate 20 persons per Bridge tour at a time due small space. May have to cap bridge attendees at 40 (two groups) – can accommodate any number rest of the Midway tour.

Wear comfortable walking shoes and shorts/ slacks. Ladies no dresses as will be doing some inclined ship ladder (Stairs) climbing. We will also have lunch onboard Midway (own cost) at the Midway Café which serves grilled sandwiches/ beer / wine. Free to leave after lunch or continue the audio tour of the ship.

There are several flight levels on the Island to reach the Bridge / Pri Fly with inclined ship stairs but with handrails. Also, there are elevators to/from the Hanger Deck ship entry to the Flight Deck.

When you sign up, indicate if you will be doing the BRIDGE tour (B) or the General Ship tour (GS) spaces.  This will indicate to which group you will be assigned.

Note: When considering a bridge tour there are four flight levels from the flight deck in the Island to reach the Bridge / Pri Fly using inclined ship ladders (stairs) only but with handrails, however consider what goes up must come down if mobility challenged. There is a small elevator to/ from the Hanger Deck ship entry to the flight deck but no elevator to the bridge.

We hope you will be able to attend. Tickets will be good for six months in the event you have to cancel.

Questions: – contact Jim Binford bjbrsa14@roadrunner.com or 760-728-6393.

Announcement: Jim Bindord will be conducting a carrier briefing at the FVCC general meeting 27 August which should provide additional carrier information as a precursor to the Midway tour.