United States Air Force Museum

Dayton, Ohio USA  June  2005

Dominating the main lobby is this statue of Icarus.  As you probably know Icarus tried to escape captivity by fashioning wings of wax and feathers.  Alas, while he succeeded is taking flight he flew too close to the sun, the wax melted and Icarus fell to his death in the sea.  He probably should have gone at night!

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