I finally visited the Air Museum yesterday in Dayton Ohio. F'ing HUGE place! I spent about two hours walking around and didn't see half of it. I did peruse the Blackbird though and that alone was worth the trip. What a sleek device. They said it holds the altitude record at 85K feet or so and the speed record at 2,100 plus (is that knots or mph?). I think some folks think its faster than that.

107' long and 55' wingspan....after you take out for the engines and fuselage there is precious little left for actual wing! 150,000# loaded....I suppose mostly the fuselage is a humongous fuel tank, since its only duty was to fly far, fast and high and snap candid moments of the evil empire!

I also had good looks at the stealth bomber and stealth fighter.

The fighter has vents over the motor....folks here said this wouldn't work during our discussion of geese being sucked in a few weeks ago!

Anyway, it would take a couple of days to really do it right.

Admission is free, wear good shoes.

The only thing I didn't see was a C5A.

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