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Air Force Museum

highpockets

highpockets

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I just returned from a trip to Ohio & Va which included a stop at Dayton & the AF Museum. I spent two days there & wore out my poor wife. Probably could have spent two more days! If you have never visited, you airplane nuts should before you pass on. It and the Navy museum in Pensacola are a hoot!
Found out a bit of trivia while there that I did not know. Some of the P-47 & P-51 wing tanks were made of plastic impregnated paper! They had to fill them the day of the mission otherwise, they could get "soggy". When they dropped them, they didn't have to worry about "Jerry" getting the aluminum for reuse!
Could not wait to get back to my CFS 2 !
 
I went to the Wright Patterson Air Force museum in Dayton as a young child with my folks. I have never been the same since. I am nuts about flying!!!:isadizzy:
I will probably go back again within a few years. Definitely worth checking out. It is huge!
 
I was lucky. One of my customers was Wright Pat. But I always made an extra day to look at the museum. I must have hit it at least a couple of dozen times and always find something new. It's always changing although the scheme is always the same, taking you from the first flight, through the two wars and right up to today. A wonderful exhibit and one that any airplane buff should not neglect. They have some strange planes there, including the Valkerie.
 
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