Not Your Average Museum - The National Museum of the United States Air Force

[@johnenglish8126]

I reside in the Netherlands but was happy when my boss sent me to Columbus, OH for installation and commissioning of a line. It took us 8 weeks and that gave me the chance to visit the museum twice. First time I spent 2 days in the museum, second time I had another full day there. They have so many amazing aircraft, and also a lot of very rare ones like the X-15, XB-70 Valkyrie, and also the YF-23, which looks (and apparantely also performs) way better than the F-22. It has become one of my favorite museums in the States, besides the legendary Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. I have huge respect for the people that keep these museums in great shape and make sure the beautiful past of aviation is not forgotten!

[@TheJa123k]

Just about every item on display has a meaningful story behind it.

[@MasterEiji]

we get a ton of visitors around both the local air show and the Dayton Hamvention...

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

"I have huge respect for the people that keep these museums in great shape." So, you have respect for the United States government? I don't think I know anyone who's said that in my entire life.

[@steventhompson399]

Yeah the valkyrie was amazing, what an incredible bomber especially for that time

[@btaldog]

Tech Adams, as a repeat visitor to this, my favorite aviation museum in the world (even more than the Smithsonian-and that's saying something), let me congratulate you on a great promotional video. You hit everything. I was lucky enough to go through the restoration area, and that was one of the most interesting things I've ever seen.

[@Cee64E]

The new hangar is built, and was opened last year. The Presidential Airliner Gallery is part of it, as well as many of the aircraft that were formerly displayed outside. Oh, and coming soon, The Memphis Belle. The first B-17 Bomber to complete 25 missions over Germany. She's almost fully restored to her original Glory and goes on display in 2018.

[@wmpatv]

I live about 40 minutes away. I go there several times a year and there is always something new. The 4th hanger is coming along nicely and will open in 2016. It will essentially be full right from the outset and a 5th hanger will have to happen at some point. Its well worth the drive to visit this wonderful museum. The Doolittle Raiders have their goblets on display there. They have been a very moving display. I have went back to see several of them had been turned over as members passed away.

[@kaydoubleu5802]

"...two of my favorite planes: the SR-71 Blackbird, and the A-10 Warthog..." I see you are a man of culture and taste.

[@AaronRenner]

I live about an hour south and don’t visit nearly often enough. This last weekend, I went for the first time in about 10 years. The new hanger is awesome! I only made it through about half of the museum in a day, and that was just looking at the airplanes and not stopping to read or watch the videos for all the other displays. This place is a true gem. The history behind some of the planes is incredible, such as the Air Force One that flew back JFK’s body and LBJ was sworn in on...and you can walk through it.

[@TheParanoidGiraffe]

Go here every year. This place is great! It's basically right down the road from me. By the way, they just opened a new hangar this year so it is definitely worth a revisit once in the area!

[@travelinman70]

Yes, the presidential aircraft wing. Have you checked it out?

[@Phantom465]

As he mentioned already.... IT'S FREE ! ! ! But they gladly accept donations. I live in Columbus, and I've been to the museum several times. One of these days I'm going to plan better and book a hotel room nearby so I can spend more time there.

[@travelinman70]

The presidential wing opened about a year ago, it's time for another visit!!!! We're moving from Columbus to Lansing, but I hope to make another quick trip down to catch more of this incredible museum.

[@unimatrix82]

wow it looks way different now, went there back in the 90's with my dad best get away ever !

[@itinerantspark1658]

I actually work at the National Airforce museum doing visitor experience work awesome to see that you enjoyed the museum and we’ve been able to add in even more since your last visit! Just wait till we finish our planned 5th hangar ;)

[@YarGBR]

Great video! I had the honor and the privilege to visit the USAF Museum back in 06. It's truly amazing! One of the top experiences I had in the U.S.

[@tornado5783]

Im so blessed to like 25 minutes away from here. Im from Springfield. Joining the Air force, going through meps in less than a month!

[@bbmikej]

Spent a good 8 hours there last summer and I definitely need to go back.

[@525Lines]

I went there 10 years ago and it was awesome. Trying to teach history and science is a challenge. They had stuff all jumbled together. A few different section for different eras would have helped.

[@bryonscheer2759]

They have added new Hangers since then really nice....

[@johndemeritt3460]

I went TDY to Wright Patterson AFB back in 1992 for a class at AFIT. During the week I was there, I spent as many hours at the Museum as I could. It looks like things have changed a bit in the last 25 years . . . . The National Museum of the USAF is one of the three pilgrimage sites I want to visit before I die. Obviously, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is another. I've recently added the Naval Aviation Museum at NAS Pensacola as the third.

[@jaybabcock9123]

I cant believe i went here and just sped through it because i was so excited. I have to go back.

[@steventhompson399]

I got to visit this when I was in my early teens, it is a great museum, the most incredible thing to me at the time was the size of the largest bombers, I couldn't believe something as enormous as the b36 was built just a few years after WWII, that thing was incredibly massive and they had an old fashioned nuclear bomb from the era displayed next to the b36, those early nukes seem so huge compared to what came later

[@jthunderstriker]

He’s not kidding. I went there last weekend it’s insane. Mega huge u need 3 days easy to see it all. And it’s free that’s unbelievable. Should cost 100 a ticket. Best museum I’ve been to.

[@standriggs2420]

Great tribute to an amazing museum! And it is free!

[@2009v8]

AT LAST! Another A10 fan! :D

[@1IamBJC]

+2009v8 I've been a fan since it was put into service, you have company!

[@jjlwis]

March Airfield in Riverside California is awesome too! you have to pay an Entrance fee but it's worth it!

[@terryzx6]

Now that Building #4 is open, it's time for a return visit!

[@PrinceOfPeace-l9g]

I’d love to work in a place such as this museum, fantastic.

[@roderickval]

Love it. Need to go

[@jimjardine4705]

Wonderful! It's on my "Bucket list"!

[@drtidrow]

It's on, or needs to be on, the bucket list of every aviation enthusiast ^_^

[@amartinjoe]

I have got to visit this place.

[@michaelunfried4450]

IIIIIII want to go there... Now! That looks just awsome. But Ohio is a little bit too far away from Austria, Europe... But i need to take a look at the virtual tour. Thanks for showing this great Museum. Mike

[@RickyJr46]

Top of the bucket list...

[@SchokokuchenLP123]

Aircraft heaven :3....

[@MilitaryHistoryandAviation]

Real nice video! Great work. One of my favorite places in the world. And the price is right - FREE!

[@lancelotgohel8460]

The Blackbird and the Warthog are my favorite planes too, along the nighthawk

[@rlicon1970]

Awesome place. I took about a thousand pics literally.

[@tomcollier9892]

The most awesome military aircraft museum in the world !

[@michaelmoorrees3585]

I visited this museum, back in 1994, while on a business trip. I went straight to the B-36. That's where that over sized nuke is parked. At least back then. After that, I strolled over to the other birds, like the XB-70 Valkyrie.

[@patch5859]

Like you I love the SR-71, and A-10 Warthog!!!

[@Pulsatyr]

Dad used to take me there twice a year as a kid. When I became an adult, I'd take him. Every time we went, we learned something new. We would focus on one aspect of flight each time, like engine development or construction techniques. Dad never took me to Disney, but we went to the Smithsonian, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain and Wild Turkey Distillery to name a few places. His Dad accompanied us while he was able. I feel sorry for kids who spent all summer at the beach every year. They don't know what they missed. BTW Dad was a former Marine, so I didn't miss out on beaches, either. I just learned to open my eyes wider.

[@ahhwe-any7434]

My dad was a refugee that built a boat. He told me he was in the medical field, mom said she did government paper work before they got here... I havent communicated w/ them in several yrs but he did create alot of memories for my bro & i. Sometimes I think I might accidently come across them on yt 🙈.They didn't want me going out much, but when we did. We really did 😁. .. it kinda circled around alotta science & math tho, I guess. He always did want me to be involved in the medical field or computers but yeahNo... I have some resentment, sure. But I still remember... He was really good at buliding things. I'll give him that. Admirable enough. ..

[@borntoclimb7116]

The museum is awesome

[@Hoshimaru57]

I was bummed when I went cause they were building the new Experimental hangar, so all the cool X-planes were off display. Still, I gotta get back there again. I did that trip with my girlfriend along with a couple days at Cedar Point after coming home from GA.

[@paralleler]

Wonderful video! Many thanks! p.s., I got in three days there about ten years ago. I want to go back to see Hexagon and other new additions since my last visit.

[@repairdrive]

Why have I never heard of this awesome place!!??

[@lwgoinghome]

they have cool stuff here but they are not great at advertising.

[@parkerea]

Thanks for a wonderful video. BTW, we share favorite aircraft -- SR-71 and A-10. Why are they my favorites? I like things that are completely optimized for one thing, and do it really, really well. In this case, top speed and close air support (attack/survive) respectively. Spectacular designs, both.

[@hayward5000]

Two of your favorite planes, the SR-71 Blackbird and the A-10 Warthog.... It's... It's like you know me. Great video. Been there when I was a kid. It only dawned on me when I saw the "Strawberry Bitch" and I said "I know that aircraft!" Seems to be lot's of new exhibits added in since I was there.

[@CynamicsPvP]

Haha, thats my two favourite planes too

[@kengremillion5287]

MeToo. 'Cept I worked on the SR.

[@robfinney9289]

Been to the museum over two dozen times. Kind of happens when you live 15 minutes away. The latest building is open with the presidential planes, experimental planes and shuttle exhibit as well. Love going there.

[@jamesmcdonald5026]

Great museum 👏

[@RedsterDad]

I officially really want to go to Ohio

[@JC-11111]

Wow. And I thought we had a cool museum here at Barksdale AFB at the Global Power Museum. We even have an SR-71 Blackbird. Still, its nothing compared to what I see here. WOW! Side note: Barksdale used to have A10's stationed here when I was a kid. If they weren't stationed here, they sure were here A LOT. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😄👍🇺🇸

[@atheistpeace7579]

it takes three days min to take it all in.

[@kenbobca]

I want to go here!

[@LarsBohr5]

I think I'll go there, fuel one up and fly it outa there! :)

[@lwgoinghome]

I just went here yesterday.

[@johnsmith1474]

Here's a two notes for your museum: 1. During WW2, days our air force bombed targets that had no military significance in Europe were referred to by pilots as, "Women & children days." 2. Likewise during that war; Curtis LeMay is known to have said, with respect to the near genocidal level of inhumane and criminal fire bombing of cities in Japan (paraphrase), " I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal ...."

[@ariewibowo5739]

wowww. They even got a MiG-15, MiG-21, MiG-23, and I spotted a MiG-29

[@oisiaa]

That's an actual production F-22. The YF-22 prototype is a the Edwards AFB museum.

[@bryonscheer2759]

No your wrong it was the first off the line.................after the prototypes...

[@bryonscheer2759]

***** The other prototype crashed and BURNED

[@bryonscheer2759]

***** No not an original prototype they had a round nose cone this one does not!!! have a look at the YF-22 on you tube you will see the difference, and iv'e seen this aircraft many times being from Dayton myself and being a huge fan of military aircraft....

[@oisiaa]

***** That picture looks old. Museums change their displays,you know.

[@RhinoBarbarian]

That C-17 was also used in 'Man of Steel.'

[@anthonyzarlenga5282]

I must go see .

[@dukat03]

OMG.....OMG......(jumping in car, driving fast to OH)

[@Tubetopfan1]

It's not really HIDDEN there-unless you've lived under a rock. It IS, however, an incredible museum. It seems every time I go there, they've add something new. Wish they had a C-5, though. Logistically, however, I understand why they don't. The last time I was there I didn't see the pregnant pelican, er, I mean, the X-32. Wonder if I just missed it or if it is on loan somewhere else. Oh, one list has it in storage there.

[@thesnazzycomet]

I really wanna go but im in the uk!

[@JulieAV]

This is one thing I would really want to do before I die.

[@ahhwe-any7434]

To try & climb in an old aircraft & push all the buttons? Prob what most little dudes want to do. It kinda bored me as a youngen tbh

[@soggysadboi]

Sadly, the B-2 was only a static test model. Still cool though!

[@doorhanger9317]

Holy shit... your favourite planes are the SR-81 blackbird and the A-10 warthog? Are you me? If we could find some way to combine those two, well we might as well drop those nukes because we won't need anything else. Ever. Like, the warthog is designed to be a flying gattling gun that can say airborne with only one wing and the SR-71 blackbird is designed to outrun missiles. OUTRUN MISSILES.

[@BlackHeart.Actual]

I live five minutes from wright Paterson AFB

[@salimbordeux7933]

a lot of cool planes but the most important one ... you just show a flash. her name Bock´s car B29. its drop the bomb in Nagasaki and is in display there!!!!!

[@TechLaboratories]

+Salim Bordeux I had originally filmed a video about nuclear weapons and was going to talk about her there, but after reviewing the footage I didn't like how it came out, so it never got cut :-( I filmed their restoration tour as well, and so there are some other really cool planes back there that I never got to show either.

[@xdestroyerx117]

god this made me planegasm 45 times

[@mrpalaces]

This video made me sad because I won't be able to go anytime soon T_T

[@MrNextMx]

i always wondering, this airplanes are in flight conditions or are just like placeholder(just to look good in the museum)?

[@TechLaboratories]

They're taken out of flight condition after being flown to the museum. They have to bleed out all of the lubricants and fuels, and prepare things like the hydraulics to work without being hooked up to a power source or hydraulic pump. Some planes come damaged and the restorations don't make them flight worthy, simply putting them back to as close to original-looking condition as possible (even if a few parts have to be remade), though they do try as much as possible (at least, this one does) to use the same or similar materials and techniques to make the parts - they just aren't certified to do that.

[@MrNextMx]

+TechLaboratories i never think that, thanks for clear that question boss :)

[@oco2203]

I think I saw a GTA Titan in the expansion hangar model....

[@oco2203]

+TV 클론 At 5:09

[@lowiet8979]

HOLY FUCK i need to go there

[@aerohk]

Most interesting place in Ohio.

[@travelinman70]

Only if you don't like Rock n Roll or NFL, who both have their Hall of Fame in Ohio. For NHL you have the leave the country, eh.

[@Waffle4569]

music/song at 0:26?

[@ahhwe-any7434]

I had a feeling ohio had its claim to fame w/ aircraft... I dont know if I ever went here. It looks more dark (lighting wise) & familiar but wapawk enetta? sounds more familiar 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️. If there's walking astronauts in here, or astronaut mannequins, then I went here. I can see why my dad dragged me along... I don't consider myself smart enough to call myself a nerd. But ok I see you...

[@CynamicsPvP]

I must go there 😆

[@fabslyrics]

wow

[@oco2203]

Umm.......the link doesn't work.........(for the virtual tour)

[@TechLaboratories]

+TV 클론 Fixed. They changed their web protocol from .asp to .aspx. Thanks for catching it!

[@oco2203]

+TechLaboratories Thanks

[@josebravo1826]

WANT WANT WANT

[@diamondhawk7427]

Ok im off to Ohio, anyone wanna come along?

[@widdawa9773]

I live in Ohio I am so happy well ummm northern Ohio

[@cmrd_hdcrb]

Hi, whats the name of the song at 0:26?

[@TechLaboratories]

+Extrude Studios It's a piece of stock music called "Adrenaline", so, not really a song so much as a musical section. The longest version of it in my stock music library is only a minute long....

[@cmrd_hdcrb]

Ok, thanks. BTW you make great videos ;)

[@T187-w4x]

This is airplane p*rn.

[@davidhyland3833]

Dayton is not Central Ohio

[@tinolino58]

I did not make it to the end: may I get my 4 minutes back?

[@ATI556]

A 10 warthog 40 mm of pain

[@johnsmith1474]

A museum of aircraft, or of flight, is not a truthful museum of the Air Force. A museum of the US Air Force would have a vast exhibition area on murder, mayhem, war crime, and civilian death. It would have a vast accounting of the wasted money and misdirected engineering talent blown on boondoggles like aircraft designed to carry single 25 megaton bombs. It would have a continuously running movie of Curtis LeMay admitting (with respect to our criminal burning of Japanese cities) that, "If we were to lose this war, we are going to jail for war crimes." You go TechLab, nice work, not.

[@kuiper921]

Aardvark!!! Tornado!!!! Why do I have to live in Texas.

[@kuiper921]

Crap I forgot one of those is either the f-102 delta dager or f-101 voodoo.

[@kuiper921]

I think Iv gone insane, can someone give me some snickers? Wow, they have the b-1 and f-111. #usafstrong

[@ValentineC137]

i have a feeling thatthis guy likes planes...

[@TechLaboratories]

:-D

[@CynamicsPvP]

Wait, is there no F-86 there? How???

[@TechLaboratories]

Dub Stepzz They have a few F-86s!

[@CynamicsPvP]

:D

[@CynamicsPvP]

just realised there is a F-86 on the thumbnail

[@deanseawa]

Seriously, get rid of the spinning opening. Please.

[@TotalRookie_LV]

Hmm, the intro music seemed so familiar... Oh, that's because of the "Cognitive Dissonance" podcast from Chicago, LoL!

[@TechLaboratories]

God bless stock music libraries.

[@TotalRookie_LV]

TechLaboratories I see, that's what I suspected.

[@matausis1993]

Could you write me name of the song?

[@rkubbutat]

Sorry the Wrights were ony 2nd

[@Hopeless_and_Forlorn]

+Rainer F. Kubbutat Yeah, right, and the moon landings were faked. Go away.

[@rkubbutat]

Even your Air & Space Museum and people arround there did realize this fact bei now. Maybe you should visit Leutershausen nearby Ansbach in Germany to get your very personal impression in the facts! ---or have a look into the internet! Concerning the Moon... I'm just wondering, why nobody did ever make some big picture of the Lunar-Landing-Sites with the hubble-teleskop to proof what happend. Basically I don't care... For shure men had been on the moon. BUT which one really was the first... We'll see... some time!

[@rkubbutat]

www.weisskopf.de/ or simply google for gustav a. weißkopf... WE EUROPEANs are the inventors!!! Who were the responsible top managers in the Space-Program? Whom are you guys copying from to build the Stealth-Planes??? BIG even in the Silicon Valley!!! Cheif Engineer of SpaceX is guy from Bremen - who else... You guy's in the U.S. are fore shure the verybest Salesman... (maybe that's why some do not trust to much in some U.S. Publications...)

[@Hopeless_and_Forlorn]

Rainer F. Kubbutat Ah, the internet. Will I find authentic pictures of a powered, man-carrying airplane in controlled flight prior to December, 1903? No. Well, we know every step the Wright brothers took in solving every single problem that had delayed the dream of manned flight for aeons. We have their tools, their wind tunnel, their records and correspondence. We have films of them effortlessly circling Huffman Prairie long before anybody else got into the air. What do you have but myth and family legend?

[@rkubbutat]

+Hopelessand Forlorn ...it's so easy... Just READ then THINK and FINALLY ACT... please NOT vice versa! If you would have just read the page behind the link, you would have found a further link with 'Englische Version ' - even for a NOT german speaking guy EASY to guess, that this might help on case of trouble with the German language... ...but here the Link to the english PDF with the scans... weisskopf.de/mediapool/93/932814/data/DGLR_BROWN_John_English_Why_Gustave_Whitehead_was_Recognized_as_First_in_flig.pdf All facts can be seen in Leutetshausen nearby Ansbach... as already stated!!! remember -> read - think - act...

[@ARyan-sr4nn]

It's not "central" Ohio, it's southwest Ohio. I was born and raised 2 miles from this place. My daughter was born at Wright-Patt, my uncle was the Director of Exhibits there for 20 years and I used to live at this place growing up. That "warhead" was not a warhead, but an actual gravity bomb. It said so on the placard. Did you not even review the footage before you did the voice-overs? For a tech guy, you're not very technical. And there's lots to do in Ohio. Even Dayton.

[@1IamBJC]

+A. Ryan (Gunslinger Tactical) I was going to mention that, too. Close to Indiana AND Kentucky...not much "central" about that, lol

[@travelinman70]

What an inspiring comment, it's sure to win friends and influence people.

[@renatoaraneda5842]

ò

[@Locky1229]

Too bad I live halfway across the globe....sometimes I hate being an Australian.... If I had the money, I'd build a house right next to that place, because heaven can get fucked, I'd already be there...

[@johnsmith1474]

They ought to have a war crimes section that covers over half the museum, because the US Air Force is a flying war crime.

[@deanseawa]

I had to stop watching at about the 50 second mark. It was just making me too nauseous with all the spinning. I'm guessing it eventually stopped, but really, did you need to do it at all? Please don't do it in future videos.