An hour or two is nowhere near enough for this museum. It is fantastic and you can spend the whole day.

@monkeybarmonkeyman

9 ай бұрын

Actually two days, if not three, to do it total justice. There's a staggering amount of information available to the visitor.

@digger105337

9 ай бұрын

4 days cover's it , not 4 hrs 😂 lot's of stuff outside that most skip.

@ParallelCamper

9 ай бұрын

@@digger105337 I spent a full day there on an off day from a business trip. You are right that multiple days are required and going down the line outside is missed by most. When I went you could also take a bus trip to the site where restorations were in progress, but I just didn't have the time available.

@zoltonthemagnificent88

8 ай бұрын

I spent two full days there a few years back before the upgrade. I went when it opened and left only because it was closing. I had traveled to Dayton to see both the USAF museum and the Wright Bros. exhibits but I skipped that. Now I’ve got to go back. 😊

@monkeybarmonkeyman

8 ай бұрын

@@zoltonthemagnificent88 Indeed you do - I started my visits way back in the 70's 🙂 Lots of changes since then.

Hey, Hey, RVerTV Russ, Great video today,Too Cool For School. 👍

You deserve far more followers than you have Russ.

Yes it was a magnificent museum. When deployed in OH. I spent 8 hrs there. Incredible. I enjoyed the various Air Force 1 editions

My father and I have gone to the NMUSAF twice. It is OUTSTANDING!

Love this museum. I could spend days there, great heroic stories

@rvertv

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

30:52 that's the XB-70 which i was lucky enough to see fly at the 1964 Edwards AFB airshow. As a seven year old, it reminded me of a big kite in the sky. Had a chance to visit the museum but my friend was in a hurry to get to Boston, he dropped me off in Buffalo to see my older sister. Safe Travels as always and watch out for rocks.

Let adventure begin

This got to be one of the best video's you put out yet and you put out a lot of great content.

Thank you, thank you. ❤️Dayton/Ohio videos. Never would have seen these w/o this video. Mom’s dad was in WWI and my dad was in WWII. Those tires on the planes probably came from Akron. My dad sold Goodyear tires for the Moon Rover. My grandma was a Rosie the Riveter during WWII. Reliving mine and my family’s history. Thank you again. ❤❤❤

I was at Wright-Patterson for a school way back in 1968! Then I went home to Malmstrom AFB. I thought they had an SR-71 Blackbird in there too. Thanks for the tour!

I was there to watch President Nixon dedicate the museum in the early 1970's. My father had me on his shoulders. Nixon stood in front of the cockpit of the B36 bomber while giving his speech.

I went there last year it was a amazing museum especially since I come from a military family i❤seeing the history. Thanks again Russ for another great video.

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So cool! Thanks Russ!

Wow!!! That is a very impressive museum both in size and selection. I never thought I could see the inside of Air Force One and so many other relics. And its amazing that it's free to visit. Only in America. Thank you Russ, and safe travels.

Thanks for the tour, Russ. My father was in WWII B17 bombers. Years ago I asked him about the Memphis Belle and going home after 25 missions he laughed and said you go home when the job is done. He flew 52 missions over Germany and was on all the major bombing missions. Out of a group of 5000 men that he went with only his crew of ten men came back alive. Cal Worthington of Worthing Ford in Long Beach, CA was one of his pilots. They flew in two different B17s during the war, one of them was called, Pistol Packin Mama. Enjoy your trip and have fun.

Great 👍 RUSS 😊thanks

THIS. Wow! THANK YOU SO MUCH! You did it great justice, Russ. Been there twice and thanks to you, am planning my 3rd trip from Oklahoma. Such a fan of the B-17, Memphis Belle.

I always wanted to visit that museum but never had the time or stamina. Thank you Russ, now I don't have to.

You need to experience the atmospheric glow of our sunsets if you haven't passed Cleveland you need to go to edgewater Beach and watch the sunset

Welcome to the AF Museum. I hope your video will attract others to this great museum. Had I known you were coming this way, I would have invited you to overnight with me and my RV driveway. I could have also directed you to a state park that has camping and access to a cool gorge to hike. The space shuttle is just a replica because the one we should have received was sent to NYC (because the "deciders" thought more people would be able to see it, even though it was to sit in the open air, not fulfilling the requirements for eligibility to get one. ) The shuttle training module (cockpit) was an original training module though. The presidential aircraft is only called Air Force One when the president is on board, otherwise it is called by its tail number, 26000.

Ok Russ another super stop thank you and take care.

Wow! This USAF museum is just amazing! Thanks for the terrific video! Both my adoptive Dad and my biological Dad were WW2 vets, one in Sea Bees and one in Army. (I'm 70 years old.) Greetings from central FL!

Another outstanding museum in Dayton. The city and Air Force base made a huge investment in buildings and preservation of airplanes over the last century.

Thanks for such a great video. We enjoyed it so much. It has to go on our bucket list. We live in NY. We enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you again for highlighting an outstanding museum in the modest mid-sized city of Dayton~! It's been over a decade since I've been to this place---shame on me, lol!

My home state Ohio!!! WPAF museum the greatest. ✈️ 🚀

Thank you for sharing,Russ. Love the videos. God Bless 🙏

Been to RP museum twice 30-40 years ago. Impressive then ; even more now. All free except for the I-MAX if they still have it. Also 2 additional hangers a short bus ride away was very early Presidential Planes and more history. Huntsville Alabama also has an impressive Space and Rocket Center worth visiting. Glad to see they have E-carts. My feet could never walk it today. Thanks for showing us the updated hangers. Most impressive.!! 👍👍🏍🏍🏍🙋‍♂️

Thanks Russ, lived in Dayton for 70 years now in Wyoming. Been to both museums many, many times. What days were you in Dayton, I just returned for a visit there.

AWESOME RUSS YOU DID IT AGAIN tnx and hello from the Netherlands

Went here in July 2019 and while the exhibits and their variety are impressive, for a number of reasons I prefer aircraft museums to be outdoors. The best I have visited in the US is in your neck of the woods, Pima Air & Space Museum in south Tucson. It is adjacent to Davis Monthan AFB or the "Boneyard" for US military aircraft. When I visited Pima in Nov 2017 I took a tour of the "Boneyard", an impressive sight indeed. Sadly, tours are no longer conducted, due to heightened security measures at the base. A wide variety of domestic and foreign aircraft at Pima are mostly well spaced out on the desert floor and in excellent condition due to the dry climate. There are also a few covered exhibits. It is well worth a visit

That's an awesome place! Another one going on my list for sure.

You can almost see the plasma glow of the northern lights the deep dark black to light blue green gold yellow and reds and oranges the sky is on fire!

Thanks Russ! I served in the Air Force for 8 years and I have visited the Museum in Dayton several times,

The Air Force National Musem is well worth the visit! I hope to go there someday. It's great that we preserve history, for history is what made America great. Talk soon.

Thank You Russ for the tour! What an amazing museum.

It took me 3 days to go through the USAF Museum in August. Also checked out a few of the other Aviation Trail museums, the WACO Museum in Troy, and the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urbana where you can walk through the restoration shop, watch and talk to the volunteers that were restoring a B-17. Spent my evenings at several of the Metro Parks around Dayton.

That "shuttle" is actually one of the two Crew Comparrment Trainers that were built; the museum lost out one of the actual orbiters, so this was a consolation prize, I think. The Trainer was a full size version of the actual shuttle crew section, used to train the astronauts on all the equipment and procedures used for a mission. Everything other than the crew section is just a mockup to represent the full size of the actual orbiter. The reason the trainer is here is that a number of shuttle missions were secret Department Of Defense/US Air Force missions, and the museum wanted the shuttle Atlantis, since it did most if not all of those missions. There was a long history of cooperation between NASA and the Air Force with the shuttle; in fact without the Air Force backing it in the 70s, the shuttle would not have happened at all.

😅 very interesting thank you for sharing

Awesome video Russ!

What a good stop you made there! Almost a magic carpet ride type of day going to two museums in a day!

Thanks, Bro Very Cool.

Thanks Russ, a friend and I drove over to Dayton Ohio from Indianapolis today to check it out. I wanted to go because of your video! Great place!!

Fantastic museum , hope they will add soon the alien spacecrafts they have from years...😁

Love this and thanks for posting it. My father was in the 8th Air Force, stationed in Kimbolton, England during WWII. He was the navigator on a B-17 Flying Fortress. Unfortunately, his plane went down behind enemy lines in June, 1943 after a mid air collision with a German Messerschmitt. My dad, and the co-pilot, were the only two who survived, and they spent the remainder of the war in a German POW camp. I'm pretty sure my parents visited this museum at some point as I'm thinking they may have attended a POW reunion in Dayton.

When I was young they had the main entrance in Fairborn. Had a rocket 🚀 at the entrance, it was right down the street from my grandparents house.

I visited the National AirForce Museum a years back. Unbelievable place. Enjoyed watching your video today. And so did my dog Baxter. He was glued to the TV watching you walk thru the museum. Thank you for all your videos.

Thanks Russ for the tour of the Air Force Museum. I visited the base back in the early 60's before this huge museum was built. My dad was a WW II flight instructor back at around the start of WW II. I need to plan a visit to Dayton someday and see this place. I could spend a week just looking around the museum. Safe travels, and thanks again for the tour.

What a wonderful museum; thank you so much for taking us there. It would have been nice to see inside the old Connie (next to Airforce One). Maybe the WW1 hangar was very dimly lit to help preserve the old fabrics?

I loved seeing President Kennedy's Air Force One!

THANKS!

Hey Russ, happy Sunday. After watching the last episode, I was wondering if you'd have time to "squeeze in" a visit to the Air Force Museum. An hour or two isn't really enough to do the place justice. I was there in July -- spent 1.5 hours in the afternoon before it closed and 2.5 hours the next morning and still didn't see everything! The galleries are dark because bright lights will deteriorate the fabrics and paint over time. The "Cold War" hangar was the most impressive to me, with the B-50, B-36, B-47, B-58, B-1B and B-2 all sitting next to each other. Oh, speaking of access to the aircraft, the Castle Air Museum has "open cockpit" days where you can climb in and sit in the pilot's seat of the big bombers--well worth checking out. Happy trails!

Out West ... New Mexico, I think ... White Sands has a large display of missiles. AND, Y E P ... they're BIG, too.

You want to see a great, really huge museum, The Pacific War Museum in Fredericksburg Texas is the best one I've ever been in.

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Wright Patt area is one of my favorite places to explore. You need to check out the Commemorative Air Force in Dallas TX.

Hey! I live 2 1/2 hours Northeast of WPAFB Museum. Been there many times and it never gets old.

Thanks for Sharing Russ!!

as you came off AF1, directly in front of you was Eisenhower's AF1 so to speak. the model is a Constellation built by Boeing I believe.

Pretty cool Russ. It reminds me of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. I look forward to your videos including the one of Michigan in October and November.

W🤩W that was impressive 👍👍

That is a awesome awesome video way cool or school. Enjoyed that video that's a lot of history. Tks for letting us tag along.👍

Great job, thank you Russ

So cool to see you in my town!! I hope you had the best time at the museum. It's so fun seeing someone else experience such a cornerstone of your childhood.

Hi Russ! What an interesting trip. That museum was awesome. Very well laid out. Another place I need to put on my travel list. I joined the USAF in 1972 , but I never made it to Dayton. I did spend several years at Luke AFB in Glendale, AZ. We love watching your videos. Thanks for sharing! Safe travels!

This is one of my most favorite places, and I've been here a bunch of times, usually over the Memorial Day weekend. I'm an aviation and space buff, and my father served with a B-24 crew in WWI, so this is a special place for me, and even 2 days is not enough. The museum is actually on the grounds of Wright-Patterson AFB, it just has a separate entrance, and the staff are actual Air Force support personnel along with hundreds of volunteers. Before the newest gallery building was built (all from donations), the R&D and Presidential planes were housed in a cramped hangar in W-P AFB proper, and you had to take a shuttle bus to get there for about an hour's time to see it. Needless to say, the new gallery is way better!

Wow that was fun thanks alot

Great video Russ! WOW! What a great museum! Safe travels Man!

Enjoy Al Of Your Videos Russ Safe Travels

What an awesome video Russ. There is a bicycle trail that runs in front of the Air Force Museum that my Wife and I ride. We both saw a van that looked like yours and said, wouldn't that be cool if that was Russ. It must have been you, now that is exciting.

Another great video Russ. You did Dayton proud, my home town. I need to go again since they have added more buildings. Google Maps took you the long way area from Carillon Park. But it gave you the opportunity to see some of downtown Dayton. I think there are a total of 5 buildings now.

@lindamartin2045

9 ай бұрын

Yes, very impressive! Beautiful day. Thank you. Take care.

In Colorado gold museum there was Cleveland drill presses and gold sifting pans we literally built the entire modem west

Used to be you could go out to the work in progress shop areas... Back there, you could talk with the folks who actually do the hands-on restoration work. Amazing folks. You may not know this - it may not be factual - but in one of those long-lost conversations I had with workers was the building of an underground building there for the signing of the Dayton Peace Accord back in Clinton's presidency. Apparently a new building was built there that was three stories deep, this being done to reduce if not eliminate the detectable sources of communications.

You should have turned and waved when you reached the top of the stairs on Air Force One 😂

My brother and i went .it was 2 days to see it all.

I agree, why didn't they light the exhibits properly?

Saw that you was heading towards Xenia,OH. It was nearly wiped out by a tornado several years ago.

I have herd of Wright Patterson AFB before. Looks nice those 3 weeks will pug you in a little better weather 😀

@ronaldhall2489

9 ай бұрын

Put

Must be nice Russ to be able to travel around the country and visit places , can you tell us how you afford it . I know I can't !

Hey Russ!! Do you use a wireless RODE mic? OR do you film all your scenes and voice over them in yor van? Thanks

I have been there. It is large but I feel like the Smithsonian air and space museum is larger.

Not that far from Toledo, me and the Family go about once a year and see what's new.

spent 2 days at the museum

The Military Industrial Complex in the Flesh !

I found out that it is black ceiling and low light has to do with preserving cloth, rubber and other parts. These are original planes and parts.

Don’t know why the GPS would route you that way??? Should have gone up 4 or across on 35.

it looks like Air Force One door blew off sometime

Russ forgot to tell us if that Air Force jet was haunted or not. They kept using the JFK limo for years afterward just to mock him.

I hope you were able to talk your way inside the secret underground Alien area. 😀

how come the Space Shuttle got no wings???

No space shuttle

Your in my neck of the woods russ

@johnp139

9 ай бұрын

*you’re

You’re in Riverside, Ohio…

@lynnward9889

24 күн бұрын

The Museum of the United States Air Force IS NOT IN DAYTON, OHIO!

yeah but isn't JFK's 707 located inside the Reagan Library outside LA?

Dayton, Ohio a great place to Visit.... as born and raised here no so much on living here....lol democratic ran into the ground.....

The question is.... is the 707 AF1 craft there.....also the 'one....JKF flew 'home on', Posthumously.....after Dallas? Not to be too heavy.... but, it 'does' pose the question. Some great old Aircraft in those hangars.....

I was looking forward to more Michigan adventures?

@joemiles6917

9 ай бұрын

He said they are coming

@mlentz1971

9 ай бұрын

Nice

@rvertv

9 ай бұрын

Because of the delays in travel. all michigan videos will be shown later this fall 8 videos in total. Thanks for understanding