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A cassette tape of astronauts’ favorite wake-up music. Flight uniforms that date from the 1920s to contemporary times. The World War I diary kept by Eddie Rickenbacker, the Columbus, Ohio-born fighter pilot famously nicknamed “America’s Ace of Aces.” These are only a fraction of the unique artifacts featured in “100 Years of Heritage,” a special exhibition the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton is presenting this year in honor of its centennial. The exhibition’s May 21 opening approximates the date in 1923 when people were invited to view airplane paraphernalia at a Dayton airfield. That small-scale display launched what is now the world’s oldest and largest military aviation museum — think nearly 20 acres of galleries showcasing hundreds of aircraft, spacecraft and missiles.
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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, 1100 Spaatz St,Dayton,OH,United States
