NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE U.S. AIR FORCE | Largest military aviation museum in the world | Dayton, OHIO 

When I was a kid 1972ish, we lived in Dayton, my dad worked for NCR. We would go to that museum all the time. Back then, I think it was basically a couple of huge hangars. Had to be huge to hold the B-36, I'll never forget it.

I specifically took vacation to see this museum from Boston back in Dec. It's incredible and worth the visit. I spent 2 solid days looking at everything there. As a USAF veteran it's just....awesome.

I tell everyone while you can still walk all day go see the Dayton museum. Amazing place.

I visited that place in 2014 and now I want to go back in 2023.

Thanks so much for the visit and taking all the video!!!

I'm a native of Pensacola so I've watched the National Naval Aviation Museum grow from being little more than an unused WWII training building to the fantastic structure it currently is (though presently closed except to vets and active duty military), but it's CLEAR to me now that I'm going to have to make a special trip to Dayton, Ohio, to see this aviation masterpiece. These two museums together ought to make every American proud to be American, and help you sleep well at night knowing your air forces are awake and ready. Excellent video ... and SPECIAL thanks to EVERYONE who had a hand in restoring all this stuff, creating, and upgrading the museum! All very neat and clean.

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I am so old, I remember seeing "Strawberry Bitch" sitting outside like all the aircraft did many, many, many years ago. Been here many times, my hometown.

Somewhere I always wanted to visit !

I grew up and Dayton and went on like 10 field trips to this place, I’m now 31 and I can just now appreciate how lucky I am to be so close to such an awesome museum.

The Ohka trainer there is most exceptionally rare. Love that museum.

That Herc is one my old planes. Good to see they finally moved her inside. Great coverage and camera work.

I've only been there once and surely would love to go back. Thanks!

The museum is free and worth a trip at least one time.

OUTSTANDING. Thank you for this video.

If I lived in Dayton I’d volunteer there. Wonderful museum.I’ve been there 3 times,coming from Dallas.

i've been there may be ~10 years ago and it was great! on the way back to my town after meeting at WPAFB, just stopped by and it couldl't be just stopped by. went through whole sections for ~3 h and all sections are impressive. saw two old veterans in Korean war section who seemed particpated in the war, and kind of sneak their experiences. wanna be there again!!

Thank you for this video. Great work.

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Very well done!! I haven’t been back to the museum or to Wright Pat since 1994 when I retired. Enjoyed seeing what things look like now. Thank you 🙏

Thanks for this. Just made me add another one to the must see list.

Been there several times over the decades; Thankfully most of the outside planes were moved inside.

Fascinating. Thank you.

Ive been here dozens of times, its amazing to see just how much theyve upgraded it in the last 15~ years ive been to this place. Also feels kinda weird seeing my hometown on youtube. Keep up the good work!

The train car at 12:58 was donated by SNCF to commemorate its use by the Germans to move POWs. Brought to W-P by the 439AW from Chateauroux, FR

I am lucky to live here in Ohio and the museum is only 15 minutes away and I have visited it many times and it is great

A totally different vibe than when I visited several times in the 1980's and 90's.

I have lived 45 minutes from AF Museum most of my life and it was a Field trip destination throughout school. Awesome place!

Great place.i visited this museum 2 yrs ago.i really enjoyed watching the first airplane engines which where all mostly same brand engines as cars.italian,german and American

Exelente video gracias por compartirlo y darnos la oportunidad de conocer este gran museo a las personas que no tenemos la posibilidad de viajar y visitarlo

Just a note to those who have never been here. If you like to read everything in a museum, and possibly even if you don't. You may want to plan this as a two - or three day trip. This is big. There is outside displays not shown here, and I know there used to be other buildings that you take a shuttle bus to located elsewhere on the base.

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Super vidéo, merci

This video makes me want to visit even more. Hope I get there before I die. It's changed a lot since my last visit in 1968.

I visited here once and only had a couple of hours when I needed a couple of days. Fantastic!

Things of beauty

I have been here but a number of years ago. What an improvement! Will have to return.

Brings back fond (and not so fond) memories of working on the F-105, F-4, F16, T-38, T37, C-130, and many others as an Aircraft Instrument and finally an Insturment and Flight Control Systems Specialist. What a tour of 20 years. And I'd do it all over. My only critique would be the lack of the Aircraft Type "floating" under the aircraft, so we'd know the unfamiliar birds we're lookin' at. As someone below mentioned, I'd probably enter the museum and never come back out!

Great video. I will Definitely go some day

I have visited the NASM both in DC and Chantilly VA , the Pensacola Naval Aviation Museum in Florida, the Marines Miramar museum, the USS Midway and the San Diego Air and space museum in California. Even visited the experimental aircraft association museum in Oshkosh. My next trip to the US, if any, will include Dayton.

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Looks like a really wonderful museum! I hope to visit there someday.

Very good video, we went this summer good times

If you go to the museum's RU-vid page, you can see some drone footage they did earlier this year. It gives you that great bird's eye view inside the museum. And if you ever get to visit when they have the special exhibits going on, they do an excellent display of them.

30:09 My Dad actually flew that C-130. We were walking around it one day with my kids and he said "I may have flown this plane." Then he looked at the tail and said "I have definitely flown this plane." My sons and I (and a few bystanders) were duely impressed.

Thanks so much for the tour. I'm retired USAF. I still remember some of those plane's that were flying back then. I was station at Norton AFB, CA. ( 1980-88 ) and use to watch the C-141 Star Lifters fly in and out daily at Norton. Loved that cargo plane. I even got to ride in one once. This is one place on my bucket list I'm going to visit soon. Good video. Thanks.

Thanks very much. Enjoyed. This has been on my bucket list for a while, and now I just got that bug to check and mark it off that list. CAVU

9:45 now that is my favorite World War II plane of all time the infamous P40E Warhawk most famously flown by the flying tigers of China we have one in working order in north central Texas. That’s flown during air shows along side to fighter, jets an F-16 and an F-22 and a P-51 mustang

You won’t need to even like airplanes to enjoy this museum. Not to be missed.

I’ve been to the Air and Space Museum on the Mall in DC, here and the Pima Air and Space Museum South of Tucson. All are fantastic!

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Trying to figure out the disclaimer at the beginning. How would anything shown in this video hurt or upset someone? This museum is phenomenal, now comprised of 4 ginormous hangars, with a fifth one in the pipeline, so I heard. Definitely worth a visit, and it’s free of charge.

Well filmed with sufficient time spent on each subject to take in what you are looking at. An absolutely wonderful museum for the aircraft enthusiast and no doubt could spend the best part of the day wondering about viewing all the exhibits. My particular favourite was at 24min 5 sec. the Sabre with all the fuselage skin removed showing all the detail of the aircraft. Great video and thanks for uploading it. By the way I presume the cute little boy who keeps popping up in the video is your own son.

I'm lucky. Live 30 minutes away, and have been there many times. Awesome place to visit

Esse Museu e o Smithsonian National air and Space Museun em WDC são magníficos!!!

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Thank you for the walk through. Was there 15 years ago with my son. 28:55 your only shot of the only XB-70 in existence.

Grew up just outside Dayton, used to go a few times a year, it’s awesome. It’s also a LOT better now than it was in the 70’s & 80’s, the nukes are incredible to see. Oh, and it’s free. While there go to Carrilon Park where they have the Wright Cycle shop. Might as well head to downtown Dayton and see the original spot of the shop. After that head to Wright Pat, park off the runway and watch flights come & go. The first thing most of us did after getting our license was to do just that.

The B-36 there is tremendous...always thought that was just and updated B-29, but its not, its enormous!.....like a Super Duper Fortress!

I noticed that at big war, big and good stuffs came out.

I flew in the Navy version of the EX-121K show at the museum. The Navy has a number of squadrons of EC-121Ks in Guam, Barbers Point, Hawaii, Argentia, Newfoundland, Spain, etc. I was a radarman in the back of the aircraft. I flew in AEWBARRONPAC and VW-11 from 1960 to 1963.

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Wow the museum has changed very nicely since I was last there in 1988 . I did a project for my black and white photography class and shot a lot of these aircraft using a Minolta 35 mm film camera with 400 speed black and white film I used a tripod and no flash.and got some great shots I ended up getting a A on the project (a good friend of mine went with me and later on told me that there was an airman following us the whole time we were there keeping an eye on what we where up too.)

Great video! May I ask where the music comes from? Love it!

Great video Varma, I grew up at WPAFB in the 80's to 1995 when my dad retired from the Air Force, I remember going to this museum a couple times back when they only had two of those large, curved roof buildings, glad to see they added two more and a rocket building... BUT... they clearly need to add a fifth giant curved roof building, to fill it with military helicopters all the way up to the current lineup that all the military branches have used, I was in the Army from '02-'06 as an aircraft re-fueler, re-fueled Army UH-60's, AH-64's, OH-58D's, CH-47's, Marine CH-53's, CH-46's, AH-1's, UH-1's, Air Force C-130's, plus Sherpa's and US Army UH-1's in Egypt with the Multinational Force & Observers.

I love your disclaimer, if only it was possible.

Great job! Was that your little boy or grandson? Cute kid standing at parade rest in front of the cars . Bet he was ready for nap time when he got back to the car. Anyway thanks again looks like they have changed the K-9 display around a little bit. Looks better. I hope to go back again . I need to check up on the Bob Hope display.

We here at Torrance Ca. have the only other Northrop YF-23 prototype. The F-22 won the competition. Northrop was based at Hawthorne airport (SpaceX took over much of the site now for Falcon 9 production) next door to Torrance. We hope to have a large enough hanger museum to keep it and other fighter indoors soon.

Wow! You did an amazing video job here. Imagine all the man hours and imagination it took to complete this enormous display!! Thank you for giving us this opportunity to see this museum.

I really enjoyed watching this video because I like aviation so much and I'm on course for a commercial Pilot Licence. I love military and civil aircraft so much. .... .

White Sands Missile Range has a number of early rockets on display including some V2 rockets that were tested after WW2 at White Sands.

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I drive 1.5 hours once a month to volunteer there. I always work the Early Years/WWII Gallery in the morning, and another in the afternoon.

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I've seen that same F-86 at the AF Museum. Typical engineering, if there's the smallest space left, we fill it with the biggest piece of equipment we can find. I worked some early C-130A models, you had to know each one by serial number as they added my nav system and each one got added in a different place. Best fighter to work on, the Thud, everything behind drop-down panels easy to work on. Phantoms, not so easy, they hid my system under the side control panels or down in the foot well, you took a nosedive headfirst to get to the computer. To get to either the main black box, or the stable platform, that required getting the Egress people out and pulling the ejection seat. It was fun ... when I was young, wouldn't want to work on them now, much older.

1946 designed double jet engine , double real rudder, nose like A10, with a canon in the middle surrounded by 5 machine guns , thought only this kind of plane able to win the internal war , only in picture one after one to make internal happy, as a mid school kid, if in the States possible some one could develop my way of thinking

I am an Air Force Veteran. You didn't show the plane with the most unique history, the Corn Field Bomber. The F-106 Delta Dart. The ONLY time the Air Force had a pilot eject and they AF got both the pilot and plane back! The Museum has a video of the pilot in front of the F-106 talking about that day and when he got to fly the Corn Field Bomber again! That airplane and I were both stationed at Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY at the same time. It has taken me many trips to the Museum to fully see the museum. I strongly recommend at least FOUR DAYS! This video just barely touches all the history that is on display. Sadly, so many truly historic aircraft were scrapped. Two historic prototypes not saved are the XB-35 and YB-49 flying wings. The Memphis Bell was only saved by accident. If not for the City of Memphis after the war, the Bell would have been scrapped too. After the Korean War started, captured Japanese planes earmarked for a future museum were just became landfill for O'Hare Airport when the building was needed to build more airplanes for Korea. Sickening! I wish I could be with you when you go again. I have learned so much of the history behind the planes. If those planes could only talk, it would take months to tour the museum!

When I last went, it was free admission. . . .it's almost always open. . . .and this video , as great as it is. . .doesn't shown half the stuff.

Wright brothers looks like fun to me..............................................

In April they will add an Atlas rockets, and will return the LGM-118 payload bus.

Good video, but that disclaimer was to say the least interesting

Wow. Interesting. Did not know Dayton had a Air Force Museum. I am from Dayton and we do not have a military museum, There is one at 1100 Spaatz St, Wright Patterson AFB, OH 45433. Not Dayton, its in Riverside Ohio nearest city. Still A nice place

We go about once a year .

19:05 MiG - 21 - the killer of Phantoms F-4. The rivalry between the American "Phantoms" and the MiG-21 in the sky of Vietnam ended in the defeat of the American fighter. Over the entire period of the war, American pilots managed to shoot down only 54 MiG-21 aircraft, and the MiG-21 managed to destroy more than 100 Phantoms. Moreover, the loss of an American aircraft, as a rule, was accompanied by the death of crew members, and the fighter itself cost the American people a significant amount, which was several times higher than the cost of the MiG.

Hard to see that YF-23 just sitting there when it should be serving our country.

They had some Iraqi Migs there when I went mid 2000s with son's Boy Scout troop. We camped off base and took the tour . I hadn't been there since 1974. There were B-52s taking off and landing. Unbelievably loud and impressive back then.

Wonderful museum realy, but why in ane place we don't see something about our master of flight Sir Alberto Santos Dumont.

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These all seen in 1930s popular science , mechanics , life , !onden News , many air plane , air model magazines from my fathers collection , spending whole afternoon studying the structure of different ail plane early bombers , later German plane fron German publivation, when under control , was first one with others to air port to welcome USA officers and KMT soldiers in 大塲air port Shanghai not seen Hook exported to China brought by Dolittle to Shanghailater by brothers airplane and model megazine , building model understanding more about structure of different fighting plane , F14 was made in 2000,,,,,,,,

Area 51 gift shop.

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Great museum, but all this old and modern technology, the USA has never won a war outside of the USA, failed in every war 20 years in Vietnam 20 years in Afghanistan, then Syria, Iraq all failed .

It's one boring museum

Having not seen double bodies p51, or P 70 or 77, saw by eyes after August 15, 1945, jap surrendered ,sparkling B29, With P77, both so sparkling flying over the blue sky of Shanghai, Do not think anyone would afford you this segment of history

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