Director: Total loss unknown

Director: Total loss unknown

(EXCERPT) By Wes Hills

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE |
By thievery, carelessness, or both, America is losing artifacts of its
aviation heritage.

The United States Air Force Museum once stored the aging wooden
pattern used to cast the engine that enabled aviation pioneers Wilbur
and Orville Wright to achieve the first powered flight in 1903.

It's missing.

Ten artifacts, ranging from camp regulations to a notebook, entrusted
to the museum from survivors of World War II prisoner-of-war camps.

Also missing.

Bombs, bomb fuses, guns, a "urine collection device" from the Apollo
program and a camera lens from the Gemini space program.

Missing as well.

A March 21, 2002, audit of the museum by the Wright-Patterson Area
Audit Office, obtained by the Dayton Daily News, reported that 1,000
items...

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