Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Return to the USAF Museum, Dayton, Ohio (March 7, 2018)

 Easily one of the best aviation  museums I have been to in my life (and that list is rather big over 60 years) and always something interesting to see there. For instance this is an Autogyro, which was a development I guess on the way to the helicopter. Could not do all of what helicopters can which is why they were on the road to them, but nonetheless interesting flying machines. This is one of many, many amazing aircraft there.
Had lunch in the museum restaurant where I got this photo of the B-36. Nice to see that up there as down in the museum it is almost impossible to  get it whole. At ground level it is just a massive aircraft. I think the B-36 is one of the largest bombers ever to fly (in wingspan at least). Course the museum is one of the largest in the world of aviation and has grown greatly from when I first saw it many years ago. 
At any case the United Air Force Museum is a must visit stop. Planes from all eras and even a number of spacecraft including the Command Module from the Apollo 14 mission (which had an all Air Force Crew) can be seen there. You can also see a number of research aircraft and all the planes known as Air Force One (except the current one). Admission is free and hours can be found at the museum web site. 

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