Air Force Museum in Dayton, OH

While visiting with Michele, Ed's daughter here in Dayton, we had to make another visit to this great museum.  We have been here before but it is well worth another look and even better, it is FREE.  There are 3 hugh galleries and they are in the process of building a forth.  They take you from the very early flights all the way to space flights.  Here are a few of the planes we saw.

This is a B-25.  One like it was used in the Doolittle raid on Tokyo after Pearl Harbor.

This is the actual plane, Bockscar, a B-29.  It was used to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945.  It ended WWII.

Here Ed is checking out a few of the planes and helicopters used during the Viet Nam War,

This is the actual Apollo 15 Command Module, Endeavour.  It was launched on 7/26/71 and made it to orbit the moon.  Col. David Scott and Lt Col James Irwin walked on the moon and returned to earth on 8/7/71.

After visiting the Air museum, we went to see the Presidential planes.  They have Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy's Air Force One planes for viewing.  They are very small compared to the ones used today.