
Air Force Museum
History of the use of air power for military purposes

entrance and the Imax theater of the Air Force Museum

honoring the enlisted men of the air force (1907 - )

Wright Brothers airplane

the group Alexander Graham Bell got
together to build an airplane
Glenn Curtiss, the motorcycle builder, joined the group

the airplane of Glenn Curtiss

the Curtiss engine
Photos of the Glenn Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New York

first shot fired from a Curtiss airplane

World War I


battlefield spotters from a basket on a balloon

over ocean flights

ever more speed

auto-giro plane

in England during World War II

"Jewish Lawyer!
Germans go to a German Lawyer"
an anti-Jewish slogan of the Nazi, leading to World War II

Location of concentration camps

Nazi transport

Flying Tigers, in China

the P-38

radial aircraft engine

Dog of the Berlin airlift
(Berlin was supplied by air during a Soviet blockade)

standing on a "Traubi" and scaling the Berlin Wall to escape to the West

Plane modified to carry the Atomic bombs

model of the bomb used on Hiroshima

model of the implosion bomb dropped on Nagasaki

cutaway showing the intricateness of a jet fighter