pic: National Museum of the USAF

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You definitely need to go on a bus tour of the experimental and presidential hangars. They're not very well advertised. Those hangars aren't connected to the regular museum, they're actually on base. So you sign up for the bus to escort you guys over there.

If you are a first time visitor, the main exhibits will take most of a day to get through. If you want to go to the experimental and presidential planes get into the line to get a spot on the bus first. BRING YOUR ID! Because it's on an active base, you take your bus over, tour for about 30 minutes and come back on the same bus. You can see either the experimental or the presidential planes, but not do a good job of seeing both in a single tour.

Two years ago 1640 did the main building, last year we did experimental, and I think the plan is for 1640 to do presidential planes this year.

There is a two IMAX shows that play during the day, I'm an IMAX junkie so thats a first hit for me.

Pictures from the first year are here and the second year is here, experimental planes