September 9, 2008

One of the best places to visit when in the Dayton, Ohio area is the National Museum of the United States Air Force. It is on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and the admission fee is unbelievable. It is FREE! Here visitors can travel through the history of aviation from the Wright Brothers to the Stealth planes. This museum has 10 acres of indoor exhibits, with over 400 aircraft and missiles and thousands of artifacts. We were fortunate to have good friends, Ron and Anna Hall, as our tour guides. Ron and Anna have a home in Huber Heights near Dayton and are our winter neighbors at Ponderosa RV Park in Kissimmee, Florida.

Ron and Anna

Both Anna and Char wanted to be astronauts.

Thanks to our guides, we saw a lot of the museum and had a wonderful time. It was great to see Anna and Ron again. Ron shared experiences from his Air Force career as we looked at the many planes. It was very interesting to get first-hand knowledge from Ron who was a Crew Chief for planes like these. I wish we could have seen “CREW CHIEF: MSGT R. HALL” painted on one of the planes below the pilot’s name. This is definitely a must see and we want to return again to see the rest of this great museum.

Later we had a terrific dinner and conversation at Ron and Anna’s home. Ron cooked chicken on the grill while inside Anna cut up potatoes to make delicious French fries. Thank you Ron and Anna for a great day.