Dayton Air Force Museum- Massive photodump inside

"KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time" (kngt) 08/06/2018 at 15:21 • Filed to: Planelopnik, Aviation, Planes, ww2 aircraft

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MORE BRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT AND GAU-8

The crowning glory in my opinion. Majestic AF

This thing is Gangsta.

I nearly squealed like a little kid seeing one of my favorite aircraft of all time in my favorite color scheme as well

Remember Orange County Choppers?

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E90M3 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 14:59

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I think I’m going to have to take a weekend trip up there at some point. 

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > E90M3 08/06/2018 at 15:03

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Totally worth the free admission. I would give it 3 hours easy. There are so many interesting stories around each display.

TheRealBicycleBuck > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:03

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Egads. Be still my beating heart.

E90M3 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:04

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I’d probably go alone and spend the whole day there. 

TrickJos > E90M3 08/06/2018 at 15:08

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Plan on spending the whole day there. I live in Dayton and have visited countless times. I can still easily use up several hours per visit.

MonkeePuzzle > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:10

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lol. how bout no

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > MonkeePuzzle 08/06/2018 at 15:13

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Took me back to the early 2000s Discovery Channel LOL

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > E90M3 08/06/2018 at 15:13

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Even better

3point8isgreat > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:16

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I think seeing Bockscar there was the weirdest/most harrowing thing for me . It’s weird seeing a plane involved in dropping a nuke on a populated area just sitting on display like it’s any other plane in the museum.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:18

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I’m going there again with a couple of like-minded friends late August. Uuuuuugh, I hate waiting.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:26

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I like this, as if it was needing pointing out that these are period weapons from China/Russia. Also the AK-47 is fun to shot.

ttyymmnn > 3point8isgreat 08/06/2018 at 15:28

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I’ve seen Bockscar as well as Enola Gay at the Udvar-Hazy Center near DC. They had to put up extra glass around   Enola Gay because somebody threw blood on her.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > 3point8isgreat 08/06/2018 at 15:28

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Yeah, if one starts thinking too much about the morality of at all in a museum for war machines, you can’t enjoy it. God knows how many people all of those aircraft in the museum have killed.

ttyymmnn > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:29

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My son and I went last summer. We got there when the doors opened and they pushed us out as they locked the doors. You could easily spend two or three days there. The new 4th hangar is incredible. Here is a link to my photos from our visit.

https://tshaff.smugmug.com/Aviation/US-Air-Force-Museum/

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability 08/06/2018 at 15:29

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Worth it. Take your time and don’t rush.

ItalianJobR53 - now with added 'MERICA and unreliability > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:30

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I know I know, I’ve been there. We plan to spend the whole day there.

JeepJeremy > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:34

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oh wow! Awesome pics! I haven’t been there in a long time. I should drive up there and visit it again soon. It isn’t too far from where I live.

ttyymmnn > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:38

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There is a true difficulty in trying to admire the technological advances while reconciling the fact that all of these advances were made in the name of killing more people with greater efficiency. I’m going to do a post along those lines soon.

ttyymmnn > MonkeePuzzle 08/06/2018 at 15:39

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More art than motorcycle, and not very good art at that. Those guys just kept building the same bike over and over and over again. 

3point8isgreat > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 15:42

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That’s sadly true.  I think part of me tries to pretend that a lot of them were just minor duty or even built from spares.  But even then, a full use F-16 probably hasn’t come close to the kill count of that single B-29.  I didn’t realize it was there until I saw it.  Felt like I needed to just take a seat to reflect for a bit.  Granted my friends didn’t seem at all fazed by it, so maybe I’m just overly sentimental about it.

MonkeePuzzle > ttyymmnn 08/06/2018 at 15:44

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I do recall watching the show, and step 1 of all the custom bikes was to pull a standard frame off their shelf.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 08/06/2018 at 15:44

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“Communist”aka Russian weapons in 2018- Facebook, Twitter and these 2 jokers

3point8isgreat > ttyymmnn 08/06/2018 at 15:47

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I wondered if Enola Gay was around somewhere as well.

And kind of a random but related question,  do you know if they had to clean off these aircraft after this missions to get of radioactive material?

ttyymmnn > 3point8isgreat 08/06/2018 at 15:53

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And kind of a random but related question, do you know if they had to clean off these aircraft after this missions to get of radioactive material?

I have no idea. The bombers did not fly alone. Two other B-29s accompanied them, one to take pictures and the other to take measurements (one of them, which went along on both missions, was named Great Artiste. Great Artiste crashed in 1949 and was scrapped ) . I imagine they knew how much radioactivity they had picked up, but I’m not sure that they would have cared all that much. Later, t he US sent soldiers into atomic zones after tests, and flew airplanes through mushroom clouds just to see what would happen. But that would be a fascinating question for the Smithsonian, and I bet they would be glad to answer it.

Ash78, voting early and often > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 16:25

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Awesome...I’ve seen most of these over the years, but a handful — the XB-70, B-36, B-58 — are extremely rare.

That particular AC-130 gunship (Azrael) was one of the last scale models I ever built about 25 years ago.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 08/06/2018 at 16:26

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IIRC, Enola Gay is up about 15' on a big lift, too. I was pretty sure it was a vandalism deterrent.

One of the only aircraft that ever made me cry actual tears at the thought of what it was.

Kiltedpadre > E90M3 08/06/2018 at 16:27

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Definitely take a whole day. Within just a few miles of the museum you can also visit the Huffman Prarie flying field, and the hill where the Wright brothers tested their gliders.

As a bonus, if you look around the area where they tested the gliders you can see several small burial mounds built by the Adena Indians.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 08/06/2018 at 16:28

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I have wrestled with this, as well, but came to the unscientific conclusion that weapons of war have resulted in technologies that have saved more lives and bettered our standard of living many, many more times over than if they had never been invented at all. It’s just sad that killing has to be our impetus -- or maybe the impetus is the desire NOT to be killed.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 08/06/2018 at 16:29

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Enola Gay is indeed up off the ground, and the catwalk that goes by it has an added shield on it. You can still get pretty close to her, or at least you could. I took these back in 2014.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 08/06/2018 at 16:32

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That’s actually a pretty good way of thinking about it. Just take the radial engine and large plane tech of bombers and how it was used to create fleets of civilian airliners that made the world smaller. And the same for the turbojet engine. The B -47, with its 30-degree swept wing and podded engines set the design standards for most all jetliners to follow. I imagine all of those discoveries would have been made in time, but they were certainly accelerated by the necessities of war.

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > Ash78, voting early and often 08/06/2018 at 16:35

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Love the AC130 Spooky.

There’s an Italeri 1/72 kit for JUST $96

https://www.amazon.com/AC-130H-Spectre-Gunship-Aircraft-Italeri/dp/B0064JJXJA

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 19:00

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Love this museum. This was the pic you were supposed to take though:

Now I have to go next week.

Great pictures!

glemon > 3point8isgreat 08/06/2018 at 20:48

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I saw the Enola Gay when it was on display at the Smithsonian Air and Space, I did not even know I was walking into the display.  Got chills, major chills.  

glemon > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/06/2018 at 20:57

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That is awesome, I have been to SAC by Omaha several times (my neck of the woods) , Smithsonian Air and Space, and the Naval museum in Pensacola, but this looks as good as any of those.  B36 is an amazing machine, as is the B58, and so many others.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > MonkeePuzzle 08/07/2018 at 00:32

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The first season, I recall them actually making all the parts. They were also driving shitty trucks. A year or two later, “ yeah, lets grab this frame, that tank, and um oh we’ll make the air filter look like a hydrant. yeah we really care about firefighters, and we wanted to show that appreciation ......”

StndIbnz, Drives a MSRT8 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/07/2018 at 11:10

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I haven’t been there in a looooooooong time, but I remember it being awesome.  Great pictures.

john28ryr88 > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 08/07/2018 at 15:06

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Planning on going to this museum next May on the way back from the Indy 500, and cannot wait! I may just stare at the Valkyrie for hours, who knows...

T o hold me over I’m hoping to visit the Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB next week while on vacation...

Dusty Ventures > Ash78, voting early and often 08/07/2018 at 23:10

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The museum has a number of 1-of-1/1-of- <5 aircraft as well. The first Air Force One (and three of the presidential aircraft used before that term was created), experimentals including the X-29 (in the photodump), Boeing Bird Of Prey, the X-3 Stiletto (which looks absolutely insane), the YF-12A (predecessor to the Blackbird), the YF-23, XF-85 Goblin, X-36, TACIT MOTHERFUCKING BLUE...