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- ajretz, on 12/27/2008, -1/+17I was just there this summer. If you live anywhere near Dayton, Ohio I suggest going. The collection they have is absolutely amazing.
- eclectro, on 12/26/2008, -3/+19Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!
- bwjacket, on 12/27/2008, -2/+17Ohio, ftw.
- badqat, on 12/27/2008, -2/+16Rumor has it the bodies are stored at Wright-Patterson. And by bodies, I mean aliens.
That aside - the Air Force Museum is a great way to spend a day. Beyond what you expect, you'll also see things like the rosary made and used by POWs in Vietnam. - veganpa, on 12/27/2008, -1/+11WP is great. Not nearly as famous as the Smithsonian, but it has the B-70!
- joebme, on 12/27/2008, -2/+9Just sayin'
The Wright brothers were from Ohio.
They designed the plane in Ohio.
They built the plane in Ohio.
Give credit to where it's due. ; ) - mparker21311, on 12/27/2008, -0/+7WPAFB is rumored to be the third biggest base in America. Therefor making everyone around it paranoid (me) of being on the "nuke list".
One interesting thing I can tell you as someone who has been to WPAFB many times. There are more rumors that they took the aliens and wreckage from the Roswell crash there. I thought it was laughable, but the funny thing is that the engineers at WPAFB were the first to develop stealth technology. Just something to think about.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=wright+patterson+air ... - createcontent, on 12/27/2008, -1/+8Damn did not expect my crappy panos to make front page on digg,thanks everyone.The motion blur was caused by the stitching process.Here's a bunch from the Dayton Airshow this year and all the Wright Patt picts in one set
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28817565@N03/sets/721 ... - jmcneilly, on 12/27/2008, -2/+8Wright-Pat is a great museum. Space stuff, war birds, huge bombers and all sorts of other cool things to see, do and touch. One day is not enough for that place.
Just don't ask the tour guides where Hanger 19 is. They don't have a sense of humor about that. - wh3873, on 12/27/2008, -0/+5I remember going there as a kid and standing inside of a tire for one of the planes. Also they had an SR-71 blackbird there, which at the time I referred to as that cool plane.
- Quilik, on 12/27/2008, -1/+6which reminds me... of a picture I have:
http://flickr.com/photos/93616683@N00/3140804201/s ... - ThatGeek, on 12/27/2008, -1/+6I agree with everyone else, wright patt is a great way to spend a day or a weekend if you are really into air and space.
they have a lunar module and even a "soviet bloc" with a part of the berlin wall - evilesttoast, on 12/27/2008, -0/+5I've been there at least 10 times, and its a great place to spend the day. Its completely free, besides the food court and Imax. And you might be out 10 bucks if that during the entire day. They have 3 hangars I believe completely filled with all sorts of aircraft, including Boxcar, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
- billyfalconer, on 12/27/2008, -0/+5It's still that cool plane.
- junkneo, on 12/27/2008, -1/+5Once Weapons of Mass Destruction, now Weapons of Mass Distraction.
- j0hn33y, on 12/27/2008, -1/+5Last time i was at Wright Pat those things where outside.
- sonoran, on 12/27/2008, -1/+5Yeah! One of the most awe inspiring aircraft ever made!
- kacymartin, on 12/27/2008, -1/+5They've added a 3rd hanger and this missile building to the original museum a few years ago.
- rebo2, on 12/27/2008, -2/+6This is a great museum -- far better than the Smithsonian Air and Space museum. So much history has happened at this base.
- Fentekreel, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I'd agree with you there broken it isn't always foggy but when it is its pretty cool! I used to live on the base for a few years. The airfield is right behind it and is pretty noisy :) though a great museum and an awesome omnimax too! The walk through planes are pretty sweet!
- DarthPoo, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I went once and my dad took a picture of me with the B1 bomber. I was just a little colored smudge next to the front landing gear.
- belumaves, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4well, the air force owns the nuclear missiles, and they keep them out in the middle of nowhere... and the crews are on duty for a few days at a time...
- Hanny26, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I live in Columbus and have been to WP a few times, it's a good time.
- br0ken1128, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I live right accross the street from it .. it's all you can see from my front window .. pretty cool place! the only bad thing is the actual base is a couple miles down the road from it and when the jets take off or land, it's a lot of noise .. better than living near a commercial airport I guess!
It is not always foggy, not at all .. but on days when it is foggy around here, the museum is almost invisible because it sits so far back with grassy fields all around it .. - createcontent, on 12/31/2008, -0/+3Thanks everyone for digging my picts,I am honored.Hopefully someday all of our Nukes will reside in museums..
- MorfiusX, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I live about 10 minutes away from the museum. We go and walk around several times a year. It's free entertainment. The kids love it.
- UndeadOverlord, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3WPAFB is pretty sweet, went there a few years back, coolest part by far though is their hangar of experimental and old failed planes. They've got the last remaining XB-70 Valkyrie (sp?) which looks like the Great Fox outta the starfox series
- jason210, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4On the inside of that hangar the first thing you see when you go in is a painting of a grey with a question mark beside it. Military dudes have a sense of humor.
- gl77, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4isnt it Hanger 18?
- gabe0463, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2Ok maybe being too much of a nerd here; but it is the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Besides that it is AWESOME; the missile hanger they recently (< 4 years ago) added is definitely worth a trip back if you haven't been.
- theOguy, on 12/27/2008, -1/+3Tell me Mish Moneypenny, have you ever seen anything quite so erect?
- br0ken1128, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2I live right accross the street from it .. it's all you can see from my front window .. pretty cool place! the only bad thing is the actual base is a couple miles down the road from it and when the jets take off or land, it's a lot of noise .. better than living near a commercial airport I guess!
I work for an IT company near by and they hired us to work on the flight simulators in the museum .. they are running flight simulator x (their choice), they have 4 of them up ... as you walk to the modern flight hanger, passing bob hope ... that big section is on the left - benighted, on 12/28/2008, -0/+2http://i40.tinypic.com/2myyng0.gif
- noclss2000, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2that's the only time we can say that lol.
besides that, we got the Reds, Bengals, Browns, crappy weather, idiot drivers and people that should have the darwin effect hit them. - mparker21311, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2http://www.realufos.net/2007/11/history-channel-uf ...
- Quilik, on 12/27/2008, -1/+3Wow that's awesome, I haven't been there in years... I should go seeing as I live like 5 minuets from it. (=
- asgardshill, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2We saw (and heard) SR-71s launch and recover all the time when I was stationed on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. You could pretty much count on having to replace all the window glass in the barracks when they lit off the burners - we finally just gave up and left plywood over the windows.
- agentdickeyd, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2And zen fire ze missiles!!
- br0ken1128, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2I remember the day they landed it at the museum, on the small airstrip in the rear of the place.. they were concerned because that runway is so short.. awesome to see that thing flying in!
- br0ken1128, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2It's in Riverside, OH ... Dayton still claims it though.. Riverside became a city over 10 years ago
- mparker21311, on 12/28/2008, -0/+2I'm in Centerville, too. Near the intersection at 48 and Spring Valley. (small world) lol. And the conspiracies surrounding that sonic boom are crazy... no one seems to know what happened.
- createcontent, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2Forgot about this one,better sense of scale.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28817565@N03/31410781 ... - ShindeKudasai, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2You go to the Smithsonian if you want to look at knick-knacks. You go to Wright-Pat if you want to look at airplanes :)
- hermizzle, on 12/31/2008, -0/+2Great place to visit
- opticwind, on 12/29/2008, -0/+2When did every digger become an aviation nerd (no disrespect meant but clearly "nerd" applies)?
- JMCtg, on 12/27/2008, -1/+3Currently 66 and slightly overcast... I find that I actually prefer Cincinnati's unpredictable weather.. it keeps life interesting.
- AAK15, on 12/27/2008, -1/+3Dayton, Ohio ftw.
Anyone else from the 937? - DarthPoo, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2@ josh1413
May the ghost of Woody Hayes punch you in the throat. - cemetz, on 12/28/2008, -0/+2Dayton, the heart of it all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayton_Aviation_Herit ... - AAK15, on 12/27/2008, -0/+2Ya I'm in centerville. 9/11 was scary with the sonic boom and all...
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