Dayton and Springfield, Ohio
On the road again.
Me in my spot |
Freddy in his |
and Cathy taking pictures of lots of windmills. |
A must see in Dayton, OH, The USAF Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum |
So much to see that I had a hard time deciding which pictures to use. So here is a sampling. |
First thing inside, The Bob Hope tribute. Continuous showings of shows he did for the troops. I was lucky enough to go to three of them. |
Bob's flight suits and other memories. |
P-59, the USAF''s first jet fighter |
Very sleek looking but not enough engine. Note the exhaust on the AC behind it. |
The exhaust is from the XB-70 Valkyrie High Altitude, High Speed (Mach 3) Bomber. Only 2 built because of advanced missiles. This is the first. |
I had to use a picture of a picture because the aircraft was too large to get a good picture of it |
XF-85 Goblin, built to be carried in a B-36 bomb bay and launched whenever enemy fighters appeared then recovered back in the bomb bay after the fight was over. |
It worked well at launching but recovery not so well, too much turbulence to hook back up. |
YF-12A Interceptor built to intercept high altitude bombers It was the fore runner of the SR-71 high altitude, high speed spy plane. |
It set altitude and speed records. It worked as planned but high costs and the Vietnam war ended the program. This was the second one built and only one left. |
The Canadian VZ-9AV Flying Saucer |
It actually flew but was dumped because of cost. |
I wonder how many phone calls this generated to report flying saucers |
The NC-131 H in-flight simulator |
Lots of Air Force One aircraft |
President Kennedy's Boeing VC-137C |
First jet Presidential aircraft |
This Beechcraft VC-6A was bought to transport the president from Bergstrom AFB and the Johnson ranch in Texas |
This one was small enough to hang from the ceiling |
Lockheed VC-121E used by President Eisenhower |
After Eisenhower left office, it was used to transport VIPs until 1966 |
President Truman had the Douglas VC-118 |
Almost all of the presidential planes are open to walk through |
Back to war birds The SR-71, fastest (2193.167 MPH) and highest flying (85068.997 Ft) aircraft in the world. It set the record in July 1976 and it still stands |
AC-130A Spectre gun ship |
Fires several different types of high speed weapons. This one was used in Desert Storm |
F-117 A first flew in 1981 |
During Desert Storm it could sneak in on targets unseen and used smart bombs to destroy their target. |
A-10 Thunderbolt !! tank killer. |
Built around a 7 barrel 30 MM Gatling gun that fired 4,200 rounds per minute |
This gun fires rounds that can penetrate a tanks armor |
Bockscar, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagaski |
Given to the USAF Museum in 1946, it was flown there in 1961 |
The bomb dropped by the Bochscar was the Fat Man |
The shell of a Fat Man painted in the same way as the one dropped |
The first bomb, dropped by the Enola Gay, was called Little Boy |
Replica of Little Boy |
The section for WW1 had such planes as The Spad VII |
F-1 Sopwith Camel built in 1917 |
and the Fokker D.VII from 1918 the type flown by the Red Baron |
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