PHOTOS: After Dark: Swing the Night Away 2025 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
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The third annual After Dark: Swing the Night Away returned to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025. The museum’s quarterly after-hours 21 and up ticketed event featured food, games, trivia, cash bar, swing dancing and rare artifacts. “Victory Canteen”: A Tribute to the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band was performed by the Tom Daugherty Orchestra during swing dancing and lessons with Ohio Ballroom. Attendees had up close and personal encounters with the Douglas B-18 Bolo bomber (open aircraft), Douglas C-47D Skytrain (open aircraft), Supermarine Spitfire PR.XI (look-in) and the Kawanishi N1K2-Ja Shiden Kai (look-in) in the World War ll gallery. TOM GILLIAM / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER