2001 USAF Museum Visit

"user314" (user314) 04/23/2020 at 12:00 • Filed to: Planelopnik, USAF museum, Dayton

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So literally a week after 9/11 my cousin invited me to fly out to Dayton to go to the USAF Museum. I said yes, and we boarded a USAir Express puddle jumper for the quick flight from PGH to Dayton. These pics were taken on a shitty !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! camera, and have been enhanced after scanning to make them less dark.

VB-6 ‘Felix’ IR Guided bomb

VB-9 ‘Roc’ RADAR Guided bomb

VB-10 ‘Roc’ RADAR Guided bomb

The Bell X-5 and a Bell UH-1P Huey

Boeing B-29-36-MO Superfortress

A mock-up of the ‘Fat Man’ atomic bomb

Mock-up of the ‘Little Boy’ atomic bomb

Convair B-58 ‘Hustler’

You can just make out the canard and fuselage of the XB-70 behind the Hustler. Sadly, this is the best pic of the Valkyrie that I got.

Consolidated B-24D ‘Liberator’

Convair B-36J ‘Peacemaker’

General Atomics MQ-1 ‘Predator’

General Dynamics BGM-109 ‘Tomahawk’ and the ‘Predator’

Lockheed U-2 and a Boeing B-47

McDonnell XF-85 ‘Goblin’

Me-163 ‘Komet’ and a Boeing B-17

Engine bay of an Bf 109G-10

T-9E1 75MM cannon from a B-25G

Ryan X-13 ‘Vertijet’

Northrop TACIT BLUE, nicknamed ‘The Whale’ or the ‘Alien School Bus’

Lockheed EC-121D ‘Quick Look’

MiG-23MLD ‘Flogger K’

The Rocket Park

ranwhenparked > user314 04/23/2020 at 12:07

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This series is making me nostalgic for the time when we could go to places and do things

user314 > ranwhenparked 04/23/2020 at 12:13

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Yeah, I’m going to post pics from my various trips until either:

I run out

I get bored

The lockdown ends

ranwhenparked > user314 04/23/2020 at 12:31

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I see you ranked them in order of likelihood 

ttyymmnn > user314 04/23/2020 at 12:40

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We were there a couple of years ago and the only thing they had parked outside was the YC-125. Funky plane, to be sure.

The new fourth hangar is amazing. If you’re interested, my pics are here .

ETA: Just looked through my pics and there is a C-17 parked back behind the YC-125.

user314 > ranwhenparked 04/23/2020 at 12:44

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Sadly, yes. 

Chariotoflove > user314 04/23/2020 at 12:48

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Another destination for my list of vacation sites.

user314 > Chariotoflove 04/23/2020 at 13:00

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I so want to go back for another visit. The museum completed a major expansion in ‘16, and I’d really love to see what’s changed and what I missed on this trip.

E90M3 > user314 04/23/2020 at 13:43

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I used to drive past a B-47 every morning on my way to work. 

Kiltedpadre > ttyymmnn 04/23/2020 at 14:50

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That plane is now sitting outside of the restoration hangar on base. There’s now a C-17, C-130, A-10 and an EC-135 outside.

ttyymmnn > Kiltedpadre 04/23/2020 at 15:26

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Dang, where do they get all their planes from??

;)

Kiltedpadre > ttyymmnn 04/23/2020 at 15:56

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My company stores a piece of equipment in a hangar where the museum stores some of their planes that are waiting to be restored.

I’ve submitted a request to be allowed to snap some pictures the next time I’m in there.

ttyymmnn > Kiltedpadre 04/23/2020 at 17:04

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Oh, man, that would be a scoop. I’d love to see that. 

Jayvincent > user314 04/23/2020 at 18:13

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Great photos, I miss those days when they had so many unrestored aircraft just parked outside the museum that you could make a trip and be satisfied without even going inside! I’ve got some pics from 2018 I should post...