Air Force Museum Unveils Massive New Exhibits

The June 8 opening of Hangar 4 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, was followed by a weekend of activities and demonstrations (June 11–12) to celebrate this major expansion of the world’s largest military aviation museum. The new 224,000-square-foot building showcases more than 70 aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles, along with engines, weapons, and artifacts.

You’ll see, for example, the modified ­Boeing 707 that carried President Kennedy’s body from Dallas to Washington, D.C.; the sound barrier-busting Bell X-1B; the only remaining XB-70 Valkyrie, the gigantic experimental delta-wing bomber; the 96-ton Titan IVB space-launch vehicle and satellite booster rocket; and the C-141 Starlifter Hanoi Taxi that brought the first American POWs back from Vietnam.

Some one million people annually visit the free museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which features 19 acres of indoor displays.
Info: nationalmuseum.af.mil