[Update: after complaining, I now see an alert with updated hours. After my previous experience, I’m still skeptical.] The NPS app shows the visitor center and museum open, but it’s not. You need to find the hours, and then scroll down. Underneath the hours that show it open are Covid hours that show it’s not open. Because when you find something you naturally scroll down to double check that what you have been told is true.

It makes perfect sense that the exhibit would be closed during Covid, because when you think small confined space, your first thought is ”aircraft hangar”. Also, everybody knows that Covid only spreads on weekdays, which is why it is only open on weekends (maybe).

Oh well, at least I got to walk the grounds, and I watched the Tuskegee Airmen movie (starring Laurence Fishburne) recently. Despite constant efforts to prevent them from succeeding, the African American pilots trained here helped win the air war in Europe by protecting our flying fortress bombers over Germany. I certainly hope that the understaffing and questionable explanations are not yet one more slight against these brave pilots who overcame so much to risk their lives for our country.