Our first stop after leaving Beaver Creek was the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, OR. They allow RV’s to stay in their parking for
up to 2 nights and they have the Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes’s famous flying
boat (see links below)
The Spruce Goose and its journey to McMinnville OR
Spruce Goose VIP Tour
The Evergreen museum does a great job and I highly recommend
it if you’re an aviation or space buff. There’s
3 building. The Aviation building houses the "Goose" with most of the other aviation exhibits tucked in under it’s massive bulk. The Space building chronicles the history of manned space exploration along with some aviation
overflow. The I-Max theater building where 4 movies are shown at various times during the day (some in
3-D). The grounds also have some planes
on display and some works in progress in the rear parking lot where the RV’s
stay. The buildings also house various work shops including a model airplane
section.
There’s over 200 volunteers who basically run the museum
floor and also work on restoring vintage aircraft. They're constantly adding, removing and moving planes around. A few planes that were in the parking lot the previous evening were moved into the
museum while we were there the next day.
Each plane has a sign explaining the history of the model
with some basic specs and the history of that particular airplane on display.
We bought a 2 day pass, saw all the I-Max movies and stayed
3 nights.
Here’s some pictures…
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| Interesting photo submitted to www.tripadvisor.com by gdc4u2 (Oct 2018). Wish I'd taken this one myself. |
Joan and one of the massive 28 cylinder Prat and Whitney engines.
Di-aroma showing construction of the Goose.
Coming next, The VIP tour.
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