Lessons from USAF Brutalism

I love seeing articles where someone clearly really loves something and has thought deeply about it, internalized all the lessons, and then gone out of their way to share it all in detail.<p>The Airforce museum in Dayton is amazing. We stopped off there on a roadtrip and after the entrance exhibit and the first hanger my wife said how great it was and how much she&#x27;d enjoyed it.<p>Then I told her about the next 3 hangers.<p>It&#x27;s huge. Really, really huge. There are giant planes that seem tiny in the hangers and take up just a small bit of each. You can walk through or sit in a lot of them, and quite a few have their histories and are significant aircraft.<p>Then after seeing everything my kids loved the simulator which is a full 5-point harness, can roll a full 360 degree style one. You could hear their screams of joy&#x2F;fear as they flew around. They loved it so much I had to fly it with them, several times to make sure they&#x27;d really enjoyed it as much as I did.

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As a software engineer who also likes military aircraft, I really enjoyed this article.

I can’t believe someone wrote about the WPAFB museum and didn’t mention the Avrocar.<p>There is a true moment of history in that museum though. You can stand on the exact spot where LBJ was sworn in as President after the JFK assassination, on JFK’s Air Force 1.

What a great article, thanks.