My good buddy and I are driving up to Dayton (weather permitting) for the sole purpose of going to the Air Force museum. We plan Feb19-21, 2019. We figure 1.5 days in the actual museum. Any advice about other “must see” stuff around there? Good restaurants? Lodging? Thanks! https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/ Mods, the post loaded before I finished. Would you kindly change title to “Going to the Air Force Museum”. Thanks! .
If it's open, the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historic Park had numerous sights around town that are worth visiting. Huffman Prairie, not too far from the AFM, is where the Wrights did most of their flying after 1903. https://www.nps.gov/daav/index.htm
Don't know. He hasn't been posting updates for a while. Winters in Dayton area are a little bit dreary.
Probably the Old Kingsbury Aerodrome. Its between here and San Antonio. http://www.pioneerflightmuseum.org/
see this thread https://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/threads/replica-ww1-aerodrome.363858/page-7 and Aerodrome Les Noyers https://www.airnav.com/airport/50OH
The National Museum of the USAF is not a Smithsonian affiliate, and DOD is fully funded, so the shutdown should not affect the NMUSAF, or the USN museum in Pensacola.
The museum is free, but the gift shop is great and you're almost certain to want to buy something, maybe a lot, so figure that into your budget.
Uro, They are redoing the comfort inn across the street, may be ready by now. Personally, I prefer the hotels on the other side of the base - in my opinion, the old Holliday Inn is probably the best. You'll be near the chain restaurants there; Texas Roadhouse isn't too bad. There are better, more interesting eateries but I don't remember the details at the moment. I'll try to put together a list. I seem to recall the town of Xenia having a nice restaurant scene. Other things to see: the fields where the Wrights really learned to fly. They are preserved near by, the Carillon museum is a neat side trip and, if you schedule it correctly a pass to see the restoration hangar is a must. That said, 1.5 days to see the USAF museum, if you are an enthusiast, will be an exhausting rush. It's much, much bigger and more detailed than the Sithsonian. I would personally plan for doing half the museum in 1.5 days or spending all three days there (I'd get 'museumed out' if I did that). The problem is that it's broken up by eras and each is very well done, it's tough to 'Rush through' or skip stuff. I've probably spent a week on my off hours there (especially the research and Presidential hangars which have now been incorporated into the main site) and could spend much more time there. Good luck and feel free to reach out. Regards, Art S.
Mamma DiSalvo’s in Kettering is good. I was told Los Reyes is good too. There is a local grocery store called Dorothy Lane and they make awesome brownies.
If you like Cincinnati-style chili, Skyline has a couple of locations quite close to the museum: https://www.skylinechili.com/locations.php?loc=Greater%20Dayton
I spent like an hour and half just on the B-58 hustler. The ww1 planes are awesome too. Didn’t get to see the Valkyrie
Well there's the 3-way, 4-way, and 5-way. https://www.skylinechili.com/ways.php And if you are in St Louis in the summer 'it may be hot outside but its chili at O.T. Hodge'
It's a Greek recipe, rather unlike traditional (Mexican) chili. spiced differently and sometimes even incorporating chocolate. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati_chili
They will provide volunteers to go with you on tours of the museum, but when my father (P-47D pilot in WW-II) and I (F-111 WSO, WW-I enthusiast, author) went through the museum, she was taking notes. Might be useful, might not.
Bob, Skyline chili is the most vile stuff on earth, especially over spaghetti. Some swear by it though. Jerry, The B-70 is now in the main building. I agree with you about the WWI stuff but, so is the interwar display, the WWII display, the post war display, the research aircraft, the presidential aircraft, the atomic bombs, the space stuff including the forest of ICBMs and manned space capsules, not to mention the miscilanious stuff... I wonder if the Pulse Detonation Engine powered Long EZ that used to be under the Valcarie in the old research hanger made it across to the new facility. Regards, Art S.
Well, of course, that's your opinion. I happen to love the stuff. I'll admit that it's an acquired taste. Steak 'n Shake has five-way chili made with "normal" chili but otherwise similar to Cincinnati style. On a road trip last summer I stopped in at a Skyline in Troy, north of Dayton, for dinner. Although a large place, it was so packed that I had to wait for a table!
