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Definitely worth your trip to Dayton Ohio at the National Museum of the Air Force to see this plane in person. It’s on the floor so you can see it up close. I believe the other one at the Air and Space Museum is hung above.

The Air Force Museum is just an all around one of the best aviation museums to go anyway.

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Yup. The Air Force Museum is probably one of the best aviation museums anywhere in the world, perhaps second only to the Smithsonian. So many unique, one of a kind aircraft are preserved there.

If you're an aviation geek who likes to linger and read, plan on two days. I went a couple years ago. I got there when they opened and spent the whole day there. I had to blitz through the last hanger because they were closing and I didn't even get to see any of the outdoors exhibits or a movie.

Very true. We went last year, happened to be on the day the Memphis Belle exhibit opened. We have videos of the WWII era planes flying overhead. Then they landed and we took a bus out to the end of the runway/taxiway and could get inside the planes. It was awesome.

In an amazing stroke of luck, one of the VC-25s was doing training that day too. So we have videos of the WWII planes flying by, then pan over to a VC-25 in the same shot. Just an amazing combination to see in the air at the same time.

If you are ever in or near Tucson, AZ, the Pima Air & Space Museum (https://pimaair.org/) has a full-scale X-15 mock-up as well as one of the B-52s used for launching the things. You can coordinate this with a bus tour of the "bone yard" at nearby Davis-Monthan AFB. Note: the bus tour requires advance reservation & security check, I believe.

Just been to Air and Space Museum recently, as it happens. There's a walkway right next to the X-15, so you can actually see it from very up close.

I was just there a few days ago. It really is an amazing museum.

They have a few hangars full of airplanes, space ships, satellites, rockets, fighter jets, drones, etc.

Yea, awesome museum (I visited when I was in Dayton on business a couple years ago), it compares well to Nat'l Air and Space (including Udvar-Hazy in NoVA). I actually enjoyed it more due to it being far less crowded :)

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