'The Early Years' Old Air Planes at WPAFB The Wright Brothers

The Early Years Air Plane exhibit in HD, filmed Nov. 2,2010

music is jj cale live travlin' light

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: FFO, ICAO: KFFO, FAA LID: FFO) is a United States Air Force base in Greene and Montgomery counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. It includes both Wright and Patterson Fields, which were originally Wilbur Wright Field and Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot. Patterson Field is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Dayton; Wright Field is located approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Dayton.
The host unit at Wright-Patterson AFB is the 88th Air Base Wing (88 ABW), assigned to the Air Force Materiel Command Aeronautical Systems Center. The 88 ABW operates the airfield, maintains all infrastructure and provides security, communications, medical, legal, personnel, contracting, finance, transportation, air traffic control, weather forecasting, public affairs, recreation and chaplain services for more than 60 associate units.
The base's origins begin with the establishment of Wilbur Wright Field on 22 May and McCook Field in November 1917, both established by the Army Air Service as World War I installations. McCook was used as a testing field and for aviation experiments. Wright was used as a flying field (renamed Patterson Field in 1931); Fairfield Aviation General Supply Depot; armorers' school, and a temporary storage depot. McCook's functions were transferred to Wright Field when it was closed in October 1927.[3]
Wright-Patterson AFB was established in 1948 as a merger of Patterson and Wright Fields. The 88th Air Base Wing is commanded by Col. Amanda W. Gladney. Its Command Chief Master Sergeant is Chief Master Sergeant John L. Hoffman, Jr..
The Base had a total of 27,406 military, civilian and contract employees that work for the base in 2010

Wright-Patterson AFB is "one of the largest, most diverse, and organizationally complex bases in the Air Force"[5] with a long history of flight test spanning from the Wright Brothers into the Space Age.
It is the headquarters of the Air Force Materiel Command, one of the major commands of the Air Force. "Wright-Patt" (as the base is colloquially called) is also the location of a major USAF Medical Center (hospital), the Air Force Institute of Technology, and the National Museum of the United States Air Force, formerly known as the U.S. Air Force Museum.
It is also the home base of the 445th Airlift Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command, an Air Mobility Command-gained unit which flies the C-5 Galaxy heavy airlifter. Wright-Patterson is also the headquarters of the Aeronautical Systems Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory.
Wright-Patterson is the host of the annual United States Air Force Marathon which occurs the weekend closest to the Air Force's anniversary.

more info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• flight
• dayton
• old
• planes
• the
• wright
• brothers
• aviation
• war
• heros
• wheels
• bikes
• engine
• ohio
• hd
• high
• definition
• history
• montage
• jj
• cale
• j.j.
• travelin
• light
• traveling
• music
• acoustic
• live
• patterson
• air
• force
• base
• army
• military
• navy
• air-force
• Hanger
• 18
• Roswell
• WPAFB
• Wright
• Patterson
• Air
• Force
• Base
• UFO
• Robert
• Collins
• Crash
• Affidavit
• Alien
• bodies
• tour