The Red Brick Times

I visited the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB outside of Dayton last Monday. I was scheduled to work in Cincinnati the following Tuesday anyway so I decided to take Monday as a vacation day, hit the museum, then go on to Cincy for a motel room that night. This left me bright and bushytailed for work there Tuesday morning and the company payed for the whole thing. Nice.

My first impression of the museum was how popular it is. The parking lot is huge and was damn near full up with cars from everywhere, tour busses, school busses, RV's, you name it. I had to park what seemed like a half mile away from the enterance on a beastly hot day making the walk not much fun. The buildings themselves are two, soon to be three, extended blimp hangers, so lots more (air conditioned) walking inside. The exibits are nicely arranged so that you start out with the beginnings of aviation (at least as it applies to the USAF) and move along through WWI, II, Korea, etc. Yeah, I know, a little too warlike for my tastes to but hey, it is on a military base. I'd allowed up to five hours to see the whole thing but finished in less than three. This was because I didn't read every item in every exibit (you'ld be there two days if you did) and to be honest there were so many young kids in tour groups running around that I felt swarmed, so I moved it along more quickly than I might have otherwise. All in all a nice experience though.
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