I always like going to the AF museum at Wright Patterson and have gone there many times since the age of 8 or so when our family moved from Cincinnati to the Detroit area. I'm 75 now. My son and I went the day before before the latest solar eclipse, stayed overnight in Middletown OH and then headed north to see the eclipse. The WP museum is massive and is a pretty good test of endurance for my 75 yr old body and legs. I'm glad we went as it was the first total eclipse I've ever seen and I'm sure it will be my last.
Thanks for posting! We’ll be there for the airshow in March and may visit. I’m pleasantly surprised the public can get onto the base to visit this museum.
5:16 Interesting note: that mission cost well upwards of $100,000,000, and was largely done to demonstrate the US’s ability to bomb anywhere in the world without landing (using in flight refueling).
I always like going to the AF museum at Wright Patterson and have gone there many times since the age of 8 or so when our family moved from Cincinnati to the Detroit area. I'm 75 now. My son and I went the day before before the latest solar eclipse, stayed overnight in Middletown OH and then headed north to see the eclipse. The WP museum is massive and is a pretty good test of endurance for my 75 yr old body and legs. I'm glad we went as it was the first total eclipse I've ever seen and I'm sure it will be my last.
Thanks!
This place is going to my bucket list
Thanks for posting! We’ll be there for the airshow in March and may visit. I’m pleasantly surprised the public can get onto the base to visit this museum.
Just make sure to bring your state IDs and stop at the visitor's center to get your pass first
Interesting stuff. Can only imagine what you know and what they didn't let you know.
The B-52 hasn't had nuclear gravity bomb capability for quite a few years. Only nuclear cruise missles in addition to conventioal ordnance.
5:16 Interesting note: that mission cost well upwards of $100,000,000, and was largely done to demonstrate the US’s ability to bomb anywhere in the world without landing (using in flight refueling).
I lived there from 1954 to 1959! Those were scary times!
how do you get onto the base to visit the museum, which road do you use ????
Those magnificent warbirds require housing, they’ll rust out under the elements
Barksdale is in Bossier City...not Shreveport...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shreveport%E2%80%93Bossier_City_metropolitan_area
I said Shreveport because it's better known, but they are the same thing