This year is the 100th anniversary of flight, and there is no better place to celebrate than in Dayton, Ohio, home of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the U.S. Air Force Museum and countless other flight-related sites and events.

If you're in the Dayton area, check out the U.S. Air Force Museum, located at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Ambling through the museum's three hangars is one awesome experience for anyone interested in airplanes. With a collection of over 300 planes and missiles, the museum showcases aircraft from the early flight period, World Wars I & II, and the Korea and Vietnam eras. The newest hangar, opened in May, highlights the Cold War period to present day.

As you walk through the displays, you'll be able to see planes such as a reproduction model Wright 1909 Military Flyer and a World War I Sopwith F-1 "Camel," with a 92-foot-long WWI Caquot Type R Observation Balloon hanging overhead. Planes featured from WWII include a North American B-52B "Mitchell" bomber, a German-made Messerschmitt ME 262A "Schwalbe" as well as the infamous Bockscar, the Boeing B-29 "Superfortress," which dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Many planes in this collection Ð such as "Shoo Shoo Baby," a Boeing B-17G "Flying Fortress" Ð feature the morale boosting "nose art" that was popularized during WWII. A Korean era Sikorsky UH-19B "Chickasaw" helicopter and a North American F-100C "Super Sabre" from Vietnam are a part of the museum's collection, as well.

If you have time, you should catch the hour-long tour of the Presidential and R&D hangars or one of the interesting movies featured at the museum's IMAX theater.

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