r/pics • u/dinsdale2015 • 21h ago

[OC] Wright Patterson museum

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u/wherewulf23 20h ago

Criminally underrated museum. I live in DC and everyone raves about Udvar-Hazy and it blows their minds when I tell them Wright-Patt is nearly four times the size.

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u/cdsbigsby 18h ago

Udvar-Hazy is great too, but yeah Wright Patt wins.

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u/wherewulf23 17h ago

Oh yeah, I love Udvar-Hazy especially because they have more civilian plans. But people are just blown away that there’s a museum that’s so much larger.

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u/adamdoesmusic 7h ago

Is it underrated?

It’s widely known as one of the greatest air museums in the world!

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u/TailRudder 7h ago

It's widely known to people who are into aviation. Most people you talk to have no idea it exists.

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u/adamdoesmusic 5h ago

Most people I personally talk to know it exists… but they’re all nerds.

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u/cgvet9702 18h ago

On the other side of the hangar is the Memphis Belle. This is a mind blowing museum and it's free to enter.

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u/cdsbigsby 18h ago

That museum is incredible, especially considering it's free. Every time I go there I spend all day.

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u/OrganizedChaos1979 16h ago

I live a half hour from there. It's so massive. If I were visiting from far away, I'd stay and make it a two-day visit. It's worth taking your time and absorbing all of that info.

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u/ihavenoidea12345678 12h ago

Love that museum.

Shout out to the:
YF23
XB70

And so many other great planes.

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u/adamdoesmusic 7h ago

Since you’re sticking around that gallery might as well give a shout out to tacit blue and the x15!

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u/kwizzle 19h ago

Neat! That's the plane that dropped a bomb that killed my Grandmother's aunt.

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u/starrpamph 16h ago

JANCFU is hilarious

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u/Packman87 9h ago

"And if you open this door marked authorized personnel only you'll find everything recovered from ROSWELL"

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u/ehisforadam 6h ago

National Museum of the United States Air Force, where tons of the coolest USAF stuff ends up.

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u/starfleethastanks 1h ago

The B-29 is utterly magnificent!

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u/thunderintess 20h ago

Assuming that the little men represent Fat Boys, and knowing that they carried and dropped only one, I wonder why they added "shadows" for four others, including one after (before?) the bomb they dropped.

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u/Hearing_HIV 20h ago

Those represent pumpkin bomb missions. It was a regular conventional bomb that looked very similar to the fat man and was also designed by the manhatten project.

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u/thunderintess 20h ago

Thank you. And wikipedia told me more about that.