Museum of the Air Force

I've wanted to visit the Air Force Museum in Dayton Ohio for many years. They have one of the few remaining Mosquito aircraft in the world. In addition they have much more which details the history of flight and the development of aircraft.

The museum starts with a hangar full of exhibits telling about the development of the aircraft and covers the work of the Wright Brothers and continues thru the aircraft of WWI.

You had to look up to see all of the aircraft on display

Posters of the period were shown

Aircraft were parked with typical settings and ground support equipment.

 The hangar containing the WWII aircraft was fabulous and contained examples of numerous aircraft from most of the combatants.

Many of the displays showed aircraft in typical situations. In this example a training aircraft is shown with the results of too hard of braking and the pilot trying to explain and the ground crews determining the needed repairs.

Japanese Zero

Hawker Hurricane

Beech Aircraft made a multi engine trainer using plywood for much of the airframe.

Mosquito aircraft painted in the livery of a photo recon unit

The Mosquito we wanted to see. This is one of the few left in the world.

B-17 Bomber

ME-109 Fighter

The plight of captured fliers was well documented

The actual aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb ending the war was on display

Examples of "Fat Boy" and "Little Boy" atomic bombs were shown

Displays of uniforms worn by the WWII fliers were on display. These are helpful for modelers wanting to be accurate in their figure painting.

Hangars covering later aircraft will be in a future post.