| New podcast feature provides virtual tour Free podcast tour online now |  Go on a virtual tour of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force! Navigate through a guided map and download your favorite podcasts to customize your own tour. Enjoy background information about the aircraft on display and learn about the people who flew them and the crews that maintained them. Whether you listen to this on your computer, in your car or while walking around the museum galleries, this podcast will put you in the cockpit of America's Air Force. Click here to learn more and to take the podcast tour.
| | IMAX Theatre operating on summer schedule Variety of films run throughout day and evening |  Children and adults of all ages will enjoy the IMAX Theatre features this summer at the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Five films - The Magic of Flight, Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag, Space Station, Mystery of the Nile, and Coral Reef Adventure - will be available. See current schedule at right for times and call (937) 253-IMAX or visit www.afmuseum.com for ticket prices. | Valkyrie Café introduces breakfast menu
Breakfast available daily |  Breakfast items ranging from cereal with milk to cheese-and-sausage omelets with hash browns are available for purchase in the café Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and on Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. All items are priced under $5. For more information, please visit the Air Force Museum Foundation at www.afmuseum.com. | Fun for all ages at Family Day First Military Airplane |  Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first military airplane, the Wright 1909 Military Flyer, with special activities during Family Day from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Visitors of all ages will have a variety of activities to choose from, including learning to land a model airplane, attempting to fly a Wright Flyer on two different simulators, building egg carton gliders and watching a wing-warping demonstration. Younger visitors may participate in "Storytime" at 11:30 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. All activities are free. Click here for more information. | Giant Scale Radio-Controlled Model Aircraft Air Show Model aircraft perform Sept. 4-6 |  See daring acrobatics performed by model jets, helicopters and warbirds during a three-day air show of giant scale radio-controlled aircraft on the runway behind the National Museum of the United States Air Force. This free event, hosted by the museum each Labor Day weekend and sponsored by the Dayton Ohio Giant Scalers, will take place Sept. 4-6 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day. Click here for more information.
| | Web site updates to take place in August Look for changes soon |  Within the coming weeks, you will notice changes to the museum Web site. The most notable updates will be a cleaner design and more multimedia features. Although the museum's site will continue to be unique in its set-up, you can get an idea of what the redesigned site will look like by visiting Air Force Link at www.af.mil. | Featured exhibit of the month Meeting the Challenge: The Wright Brothers |  Although heavier-than-air powered flight posed more difficult problems than other methods of flight, it also held the greatest potential. Until Wilbur and Orville Wright dedicated themselves to solving the problems of control and aerodynamic lift, along with the development of a lightweight engine for propulsion, no one had been able to solve this puzzle. The National Museum of the United States Air Force is within seven miles of the places where Wilbur and Orville lived, studied and most importantly, solved the mysteries of flight. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the U.S. Army's purchase of the Wright Military Flyer in August 1909. Click here for more information on the Wright Brothers and the museum's reproduction of the Wright Military Flyer. | | | This month in USAF history August 8, 1946 |  The Convair XB-36 Peacemaker made its first flight at Fort Worth. Responding to the U.S. Army Air Forces' requirement for a strategic bomber with intercontinental range, Consolidated Vultee (later Convair) designed the B-36 during World War II. The airplane made its maiden flight in August 1946, and in June 1948 the Strategic Air Command received its first operational B-36. The B-36 served as the United States' primary strategic nuclear bomber in the 1950s, remaining in production until 1954 with a total purchase of 385 planes. Its official nickname of "Peacemaker" was appropriate, for although the B-36 never dropped a bomb in combat, its range and nuclear weapons capability made it a powerful deterrent to a possible third world war. Making the last B-36 flight ever, the B-36 Peacemaker on display in the museum's Cold War Gallery flew to the museum from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on April 30, 1959. (Information provided by Air Force Historical Studies Office)
| | | | On the radar | Daily · USAF Heritage Tour Aug. 3-7 · High Flying Adventure! Aerospace Camp
Aug. 7, 14, 21, 28, Sept. 4, 11, 18, 25 · Behind the Scenes Tours
Aug. 15 · Family Day Sept. 4-6 · Giant Scale Radio-Controlled Model Aircraft Air Show Sept. 7 · Labor Day, MUSEUM OPEN
Sept. 14 · Berlin Airlift Special Exhibit Opens Sept. 19 · Family Day Sept. 23 · Wings & Things Guest Lecture Sept. 25-27 · WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous | | IMAX® schedule | Coral Reef Adventure · 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. daily Mystery of the Nile · 6 p.m. daily Fighter Pilot · 12 noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. daily The Magic of Flight · 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. daily Space Station · 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily | | |
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