Monday, August 8, 2016

Evergreen Air Musem

The Sopwith Camel, Snoopy's favorite plane, shot down the Red Baron in WW-1.


The Museum started with one huge building that contained the Spruce Goose.  Now there are 3 more buildings: a space museum, an indoor water park and an IMAX-format theater.

B-17 bomber, below.


The  huge Spruce Goose, below, dwarfs dozens of smaller aircraft.




Blackbird spy plane engine, above; the plane itself, below.

Which reminds me of the recent movie Bridge of Spies, starring Tom Hanks.  It's about recovering Gary Powers, the pilot of an earlier spy plane (the U-2) that was shot down over Russia.  Great flick!   


The Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft, below, looks like a winged whale.


Moon stuff, below: unmanned research vehicle, lander and buggy.




The Museum is located in McMinnville, OR.

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