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IEEE Pittsburgh Section Outing to The National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio

May 31 @ 06:00 - 22:00

We are organizing an outing to The National Museum of the US Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. The event is open to the IEEE Pittsburgh Section’s members and their guests and limited to the capacity (34 people) of the bus on a first-come-first-serve basis. The event is highly subsidized by the Section. If interested, please register at the vtools weblink above.
The museum, which is free to the public, is the world’s largest military aviation museum. Here are just a few of the items on view: X-15 rocket plane, U2 and SR-71 spy planes, B-52 B-29 B17 and XB-70 bombers, F-22 F-111 P-51 fighters, Apollo Capsule, Soyuz capsule, as well as the Second Wright Flyer, and ICBMs, cruise missiles, strange prototypes and all of the Presidential Air Force Ones (except Reagan's) etc. All exhibits are located indoors. The museum features more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space. The museum opened to the public on May 16, 1923 in Dayton Ohio and has now evolved to its fourth location which includes four buildings, a Missile Gallery, an Air Park and a Memorial Park. For further information, you may click on the following weblink at: https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil.
Co-sponsored by: senml@ieee.org
Agenda:
Departing time: 6:00 am
Returning time: 10:00 pm
Panera Bread, Miracle Mile, 4172 William Penn Hwy, Monroeville, Pennsylvania, United States, 15146