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  • Signals Between Aeroplanes and Artillery

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This Royal Flying Corps instruction book and signal guide was produced on heavy card stock and provided quick reference for pilots and observers directing artillery fire by airplane. This guide belonged to Lt. John A. Sperry, a pilot with the 139th Aero

  • Lt. Lloyd “Scotty” Hathcock

    Captured in Italy during the summer of 1944, Lt. (later Maj.) Lloyd "Scotty" Hathcock spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft III and Stalag VII-A prison camps. After the war, Hathcock stayed in the service and helped to desegregate the U.S. Air Force.Click here to return to the Tuskegee Airmen

  • Pre-war Super Bombers

    Although the Boeing B-17 was to gain greater fame, Boeing also designed and built an even larger four-engine bomber in the mid-1930s, the XB-15. Its design was actually begun before the B-17, but it did not make its first flight until 1937, more than two years after that of the B-17. With a wingspan

  • Proving the Flying Fortress

    As a result of the General Staff's decision, only 13 YB-17s and one YB-17A were ordered by mid-1937 as compared to 133 B-18s and 177 B-18As. The Air Corps was determined to prove the value of the four-engine B-17 with this handful of service test planes. It flew its YB-17s at every opportunity over

  • AN/MRC-108 Communications System

    The commitment of American forces to combat in South Vietnam created an urgent need for radio communications between air and ground forces, which used different radios. In response, the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Division developed the AN/MRC-108 in 1965 for use by USAF personnel operating on

  • Military Ballooning: The Spanish-American War

    After the Civil War, the U.S. did not conduct ballooning operations again until 1892, when the U.S. Army established a balloon section within the Signal Corps. When war with Spain broke out in 1898, the Army's "air arm" consisted of one hand-sewn balloon.Despite incredible difficulties, Lt. Col.

  • Vault

    Note: This exhibit is located in the Presidential Gallery on a controlled-access portion of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Click here for requirements to visit this gallery.During World War II, bomber aircrews, primarily B-17 and B-29, flying into Wright Field needed a secure place to store their

  • WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous Participant Information

    Participant Registration Forms & General InformationPlease complete all the forms for your associated category. Mail forms and payment to the address annotated on the bottom of your registration forms. If you have questions, please call (937) 255-1716. Pilots

  • General Electric J47 Turbojet

    The J47 was developed by the General Electric Co. from the earlier J35 engine and was first flight-tested in May 1948 as a replacement for the J35 used in the North American XF-86 Sabre. In September 1948 a J47 powered an F-86A to a new world's speed record of 670.981 mph. More than 30,000 engines

  • MHU-83B/E Lift Truck

    Note: This exhibit is located in the Research & Development Gallery on a controlled-access portion of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Click here for requirements to visit this gallery.Click here to return to the Research & Development Gallery.