This is the home of Evergreen Aviation and their pilots are highly skilled at landing on short runways. Witness the 747 that landed on top of that building in the pix above.
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Evergreen built an air museum near the airport here; it has Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose, a Blackbird spy plane, several fighters and so on. By coincidence, there’s an older fighter plane parked outside the museum, and it has the names of the pilot and copilot written on the cockpit. The pilot’s name is Major Tony McPeak. Tony was a Blue Angels pilot who later became a 4-star general and air force chief of staff. It so happens he was a neighbor of mine when I lived in Lake Oswego, OR in the 90s.
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We spent a pleasant 2 hours listening to Brian and Carina yesterday, doing a pro bono gig at a local music store. They have an appealing sound, nice blend of voices. Brian has several original songs and some of them are very good. See pix. After the performance, we all went out for dinner at the Golden Valley Brew Pub, good brews and chow.
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Evergreen built an air museum near the airport here; it has Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose, a Blackbird spy plane, several fighters and so on. By coincidence, there’s an older fighter plane parked outside the museum, and it has the names of the pilot and copilot written on the cockpit. The pilot’s name is Major Tony McPeak. Tony was a Blue Angels pilot who later became a 4-star general and air force chief of staff. It so happens he was a neighbor of mine when I lived in Lake Oswego, OR in the 90s.
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We spent a pleasant 2 hours listening to Brian and Carina yesterday, doing a pro bono gig at a local music store. They have an appealing sound, nice blend of voices. Brian has several original songs and some of them are very good. See pix. After the performance, we all went out for dinner at the Golden Valley Brew Pub, good brews and chow.
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About 8:30 this AM we’ll hit the road, destination somewhere in the stretch between Ashland, OR and Weed, CA. En route we’ll stop at Dick’s Sporting Goods in Salem to pick up Trish’s new kayak – her third toy acquisition on this trip (the others were a folding bicycle and a set of golf clubs).
About 8:30 this AM we’ll hit the road, destination somewhere in the stretch between Ashland, OR and Weed, CA. En route we’ll stop at Dick’s Sporting Goods in Salem to pick up Trish’s new kayak – her third toy acquisition on this trip (the others were a folding bicycle and a set of golf clubs).
Looks like you are having a great trip. Hope to see you in AZ this winter.
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