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By KEN BECK StaffWriter SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. Airplane aficionados, flight fanatics and just plain folks all will get a lift from a visit to the Tennessee Museum of Aviation. With an all-star cast of more than a dozen warbirds, the museum, which is three months shy of its third birthday, showcases flights of fancy for all. Amazingly, almost everything in the exhibition is on loan, and many of the planes still fly. daily, if the weather is good, we do impromptu flights for visitors.

We consider it bringing history to said Bob Minter, the president and executive director. had some very powerful or emotional experiences when we have veterans here who have had a relationship with an old warbird of their own. We see a lot of tears hit the hanger The museum will have a War- birds Weekend Sept. 25-26 that will feature an informal gathering of Tennessee 1st Squadron members. That means flight fans will be looking up, as in flyovers.

public can interrelate with the pilots and the owners. We could easily have a dozen to two dozen planes come in, depending on the said Minter, a former corporate pilot who has been flying for 42 years. of what you see in there is on loan to us, airplanes included. The people who wore those uniforms or had those artifacts still have control over he said. Visitors to the museum will see hundreds of artifacts related to the first century of flight history.

Besides flight suits worn by fighter pilots and mail pilots, there are boots, goggles, helmets, coats, jackets and gloves. There are Please see AVIATION, 2J CYANMAGYELBLK TennesseanBroadsheet Master TennesseanBroadsheet Master 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 5 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 5 TennesseanBroadsheet Master TennesseanBroadsheet Master 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1J SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2004 www.tennessean.com TRAVEL BOOKS In Never a City So Real: A Walk in Chicago (Crown Journeys; $16), author Alex Kotlowitz takes you to places most of us never see, where the neighborhoods have names such as Irondale or Slag Valley, and recalls local history that most history books ignore, such as the Memorial Day Massacre in 1937 at the Republic Steel plant on the south side. Not your typical guide book PET TRAVEL Traveling with your pets be a hassle. Many hotels and spas will fawn over Fido and coddle your kitty, and there are several Web sites to help you find them. See www.pettravel.com, www.petfriendly travel.com and www.petfriendlyhotels andtravel.com.

On the road with Rover CONTENTS Lowest air fares Adventure travel Travel calendar Sandy Smith, Assistant Managing Editor Features, 259-8040 Gloria Ballard, Assistant Features Editor, 259-8042 To List Events: Call 726-8902 Fax: 259-8057 E-mail: Warbirds on the prowl as museum takes wing in East Tennessee Life magazine Our Sunday Life section, which contains your favorite stories and features, is here. Look for Life behind this section. ASSOCIATED PRESS At the Pentagon, some of the scarred darker area from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks can be seen at upper left, in contrast to the repaired wounds are healing, but scars still visible By DERRILL HOLLY Associated Press ARLINGTON, Va. An observant traveler along Interstate 395 here might notice that the gray limestone facade of the Pentagon is tinted slightly darker in spots.

These barely visible scars are reminders of the attack on the military nerve-center, which killed 125 in the building and 59 passengers and crew on the aircraft. The slabs obliterated by the attack have since been replaced with stone hewn from the same Indiana quarry where the original stone was mined. In other places, the original stone was tinted slightly darker by the smoke. A small chapel built within the impact zone of the Pentagon now serves as a place of reflection for Department of Defense staff, but it is not readily accessible to the public. A permanent two-acre memorial is planned, however.

It would be built about 165 feet from the now- repaired face of the west facade. Proponents of the project have said in the past that they would like to be able to dedicate it on Sept. 11, 2006, but it still faces a long approval process. The wall has been repaired, and the area remains visible from afar, but it is inside a military installation. Visitors are subject to security checks conducted by both military and uniformed Department of Defense commissioned security police.

But visitors can view the site from Army-Navy Drive, or from an old section of adjacent Arlington National Cemetery. It is most easily accessible via the Washington Metrorail system; the Pentagon or Pentagon City are the closest stops. Also at the cemetery you can visit a Pentagon-shaped memorial marker honoring 66 victims of the attack. The dozens of civil servants who lost their lives Sept. 11 also are listed among the heroes honored at the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C.

and the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Md. Also of interest, the Smithsonian National Air and Space companion facility in Chantilly, near Washington Dulles International Airport, has a small exhibit of artifacts devoted to Sept. 11, including photos and a fragment from the damaged area of the Pentagon. Inside Travelers from all over the country still come to pay their respects at the crash site of Flight 93 in the quiet Pennsylvania countryside. On 3J LARRY MCCORMACK STAFF The Tennessee Museum of Warbird Hanger features more than a dozen airplanes.

Some are a permanent part of the museum, while others are flown in and displayed for a limited time and then flown back to their homes throughout the United States. Inside Information for anyone planning see the museum. Also, some of the different types of aircraft housed there. On 2J ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse on the East Coast, overlooks the Atlantic Ocean and the village of Buxton, N.C. Ocracoke Lighthouse stands above Silver Lake, the harbor in Ocracoke, N.C.

LIGHT-HEARTED CHARM By MARGARET LILLARD Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. Combine the tragic romance of seafaring, the skill of engineering, the lessons of history and a nice day at the beach, and you have some of the reasons why lighthouses continue to captivate travelers on land and sea. Seven lighthouses dot the North Carolina coast, anchored by the 134-year-old Cape Hatteras light, once considered the most important navigational aid on the East Coast and, five years ago, the subject of a $10 million move to save it from the encroaching sea. the pinnacle of a lighthouse quest to stand next to the 208-foot tower the tallest in the United States and look up the vertiginous swirl of black and white stripes, or down from its wind-whipped observation deck. The coastal sentinels range from Currituck a dozen miles south of the Virginia border to Oak Island and Bald Head at the mouth of the Cape Fear River.

The lights are fascinating on any day to Cheryl Shelton-Roberts, cofounder with her husband, Bruce, of the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society. height is awesome. And just their history old, been there a long time, they truly are symbols of she said recently from her home in Morehead City. they have pretty nice back yards, you say? That feel and smell of salt air that, I think, seasons our good humor, so to Six of the seven are working navigational aids. (There are two automated lights off the coast, Diamond Shoals and Frying Pan Shoals.) Oak Island, the newest at 46 years old, is part of an active Coast Guard station, though it soon will be turned over to the town of Caswell Beach.

Bodie, Cape Hat- Nautical history only part of allure If you go State information on lighthouses: www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us/ Outer Banks Lighthouse Society: www.outer-banks.com/light- Currituck Light: www.currituck beachlight.com or 1-252-453-8152. Cape Hatteras National Seashore: (links to Hatteras, Ocracoke and Bodie Island lights): www.nps.gov/caha/culhistory.htm or 1-252-473-2111. Cape Lookout Lighthouse: www.nps.gov/calo/lths.htm or 1-252-728-2250. Old Baldy Foundation: www.oldbaldy.org or 1-910-4577481. Oak Island Lighthouse: www.uscg.mil/d5/group/fort Please see LIIGHTHOUSES, 2J 66 75 441 0Mile5 40 40 Great Smoky Mountains National Park Nashville Nashville Nashville Tenn.

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