National Museum of the US Air Force in Dayton, OH Tour & Review with Hyde

What's up In The Loop, it's Hyde. Checking in from these giant aircraft hangars. We are outside Dayton, Ohio. The National Museum of the Air Force. They have everything from planes from 100 years ago, then through all the different wars and battles, all the way up to current day and some space program and all those hangars. Best part is free parking and it's free to go in. So why not check it out. Let's head inside and see probably hundreds of planes. Here's a map of this facility. Now each of those bays 1, 2, 3, and 4 are giant, giant, giant aircraft hangars. And you can see each one's kind of themed to different areas and we'll start in one and work the video through from left to right going through each era of aviation. First up is the early years and just first up I think I'll also show just how huge this place is. I mean these are giant aircraft hangars so of course they're huge. I think 1.1 million square feet I think is what he said. Largest indoor military museum. These planes are big. So this is, it is all done like chronologically. So this is the early years if you can't tell by these planes right here. Being that we're in Dayton, Dayton is obviously home to the Wright Brothers or they called home rather. So there are some Wright Brother pieces around the museum as well as nearby some of their famous sites, their bicycle shop and all that kind of stuff. So while this is a military museum the Wright Brothers obviously play a big part in the history of aviation. The observation balloon is like a weird looking hot air balloon. Looks kind of normal there but then you look up and it's like nope it's a giant zeppelin. When you think of the attack on Pearl Harbor you think of the attack on a navy base but there's actually attacks on some of the airfields nearby as well. And here's one of the planes and that is the fighter pilot who still in his pajamas ran out of bed to jump in this aircraft to go to battle. So yeah still in pajamas. Woken up in the morning jumped in the aircraft. Walking into the World War II section. Again giant hangar with countless planes as far as the eye can see. It's interesting how you know as we go through time the planes get bigger and bigger. It's also interesting how they like fit so many planes in here. I mean these planes are just feet apart. It's also neat how you know they have like a little like setup with guys here and some props to just kind of show you what it actually will look like loading this thing. So this is quite the interesting plane. This is the actual plane that dropped the second atomic bomb. The one that was dropped on Nagasaki. You know it's just crazy to see something so unassuming like this in a aircraft hangar in Dayton, Ohio that shaped history so much. A similar atomic bomb obviously has been they call it demilitarized is here on display but painted to look like the one that was dropped. There's a photo of what it looked like. Moving through time we are now at the Korean War. Now this part of the museum is just one giant aircraft hangar. You can see that all the way over to the Southeast Asia War. We'll check that out in a second. You got this giant aircraft there. Just so big so many airplanes everywhere you look. What's also neat is too is it's not just airplanes they have stuff like here a lot of like engines and other like artifacts. You know what they would wear all kinds of stuff. Really hard to show a video but man this is a large plane. It's probably at least 40 or 50 feet tall there. You just see how monstrous this is but uh U.S. Air Force giant like transport plane moving into the Vietnam War area. Big aircraft there starting to resemble a little bit more of what we're used to today. The first type of like self-guiding missiles. You can see the little camera they would like lock in on an image and then that camera would course correct to find its way down to the target. Must have took someone really smart to figure out how to fit all this in here. You can see this helicopter is like barely barely clear and the airplane goes underneath it and then there's another helicopter that's sitting underneath or a plane that's sitting underneath that. I guess that's how you fit in like the hundreds of aircrafts they have. We've entered the next massive hangar slash exhibit hall and this is the Cold War time frame. A lot uh definitely feels colder in here just because there's not a lot of color. The first few rooms had a lot of color to it. You know planes were painted a lot of fun colors. This is where it gets into more of the gray color but uh you still see like a giant giant airplane there. You still got like these strange like rescue water rescue planes up there. Dennis the menace painting on the side of uh this aircraft. We are now in the post-Cold War section which would be like uh Gulf Coast War or the Iraqi War. And this is a civilian plane that they said they turned into military surveillance and you can kind of see in the windows there it's unarmed but they fly that super low altitudes a bunch of spotters and uh radar to pick up things. The Nighthawk stealth style aircraft. Not a pretty looking thing. I guess uh point was for no one to see it so it didn't have to look pretty. As part of the Cold War section they do have pieces from the actual Berlin Wall. We are in the uh missile gallery and uh quite quite big. What do you say probably 75 feet 100 feet tall? This one's called the Peacekeeper. It says uh kind of shows how the how they're launched. Moving into the final room there is a space section. Here is a capsule from the uh Apollo missions. Space suit from Apollo 11. A giant uh rocket here. Probably at least like a hundred yards long. It's all the way down there and then there's the side rocket boosters that was used to send payloads up into space satellites and and the like. Crazy how big it is. This might be the smallest biggest plane I've ever seen. It's massive. We got tiny. Looks like an alien uh saucer. This is actually something built in partnership with Canada A that did vertical landings and takeoffs. So kind of like an alien saucer. They have a collection of a couple of the uh planes that were used as Air Force One for the various presidents. I assume this is the most recent one because it's the biggest. You can see some of the other ones back there. Let's go check it out. One of the uh planes is called the Independence. This flew uh Truman. Pretty, I like the slick uh paint job on it. This Air Force One was built uh is the first one built specifically to carry a president. Kennedy was the first one It uh might be most famous for uh this is where Johnson was sworn in on after the Kennedy assassination. But uh really big, really cool. It was in use for 36 years and then it came to the museum in the mid 90s. And with that that wraps up our visit to the museum here. A giant, giant museum. Bring your walking shoes. But you know it is a free museum to go into. Free parking like I said at the top of the video. So can't complain and uh it's very well done. Very big. I would say you know you could spend upwards of like a full day here if you wanted to and reading everything. Or uh you know we we read it quite a bit and did quite a bit of glancing and got in and out in about two hours or so. So I plan accordingly. But overall a great experience. Much bigger than I expected. Much more exhibits than I expected. I expected just a bunch of planes sitting around but there was a lot of infographs and tv monitors and props and uh you know engines and stuff like that. Not necessarily all just planes. So really cool. Thanks for subscribing. Thanks for watching.