Air Force Museum

What a place! I never knew that many airplanes existed. Without question this has to be one of the finest museums in the world. It would literally take several days to see everything, read everything and view every video in this magnificent celebration of the history of the U. S. Air Force. We only spent five hours and just skimmed everything by quickly walking by the aircraft on display which range from early Wright Brothers planes right up to the B-2 Stealth Bomber. There are three hangers filled with planes all arranged by time period...from Early Aviation right on up through WWI, WWII, Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq. We also got there early enough to sign up for the tour of the presidential planes. There were four Air Force Ones that we walked through: Ones used by Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and the big jet used by Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Carter. In walking through it we saw the area where Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as president after the assignation of John Kennedy in Dallas. So much history...it was a strange feeling. The pictures show the three huge hangers that house the museum, me standing in front of a B-17, the type of plane my father flew when he trained crews during WWII, a B-29 like the one used to drop the atomic bomb...complete with an atomic bomb so you can see the size, and Air Force One. I have a lot more pictures that I will try and post in a Facebook album. Needless to say, we were both very impressed with how well everything was presented. Tomorrow we are off to Bowling Green, Ohio for the FMCA convention.