Evergreen Aviation Museum

[Mini Me]

While visiting my Sister and her Husband in Salem, Oregon, we spent a little time at the Evergreen Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.......Huge Facility! Had to be in order to house the "Spruce Goose". Rick H.

 

[Mini Me]

OOPS!.........Here's one for Alan G

 

[Mini Me]

There were a lot more aircraft to see but our time was limited so did the best I could....more when I visit them again in the future. Rick H.

 

[Tim Marlow]

Excellent spread. Really shows the size of the Spruce goose as well…..

 

[Lee Drennen]

Rick you’re just full of “Goodies” today WoW very nice set of pics. Like PaulE said earlier thanks for sharing.

 

[yak face]

Excellent pics rick , looks like a great museum . The Spruce Goose is just amazing , completely dwarfs everything else! Cheers tony

 

[Steven000]

Thanks Rick! Feels a bit like I was there too cheers

 

[Allen Dewire]

Great Stuff Rick,

Thanks for the pics and did you get to meet Howard too??? Now for the mathematical question of the day, How many Me-262's could fit inside the Spruce Goose???....You got 5 minutes to answer Buddy!!!

 

[adt70hk]

Rick

Yet again, thanks for sharing.

ATB.

Andrew

 

[Jakko]

How many Me-262's could fit inside the Spruce Goose???....You got 5 minutes to answer Buddy!!!

None. The fuselage was 7.44 m wide on the outside, and minus quite a bit for the ribs, as the photo shows; an Me 262 was 10.6 m long and 12.6 m wide, and the narrowest it can probably be when parked diagonally seems to be about 10 metres (based on some quick measurements in a top-view drawing).

So: you couldn’t get one inside of it.

 

[Jim R]

Hi Rick
Looks a great place. The Spruce Goose is certainly a one off monster.
Is that Salem the place with the witches?
Jim

 

[Mini Me]

Hi All, Glad you enjoyed the pix.......I hope to get more on my next visit. There is an aerospace building as well so hope to spend some time in it also. Looking forward to the next visit already! I was amazed at the size of that "plywood wonder".......and that 262 looks like an insect parked next to it. Oh, Jim......the Salem Witch Trials were in Massachusetts here endeth the history lesson for the day
Rick H.

 

[Jakko]

Is that Salem the place with the witches?

That was on the other side of the country Oregon wasn’t settled by Europeans at that time.

 

[boatman]

HI Rick m8ty some crackin pic of that spruce gousse an if it was me id have a hard job leavin the place as so many planes there like the big one that i will never see in real life but as all the guys have said MANY THANKS FOR SHAREIN the pics
an glad you had a good day an please get back to that earospace place an take loads of piccies as i would really enjoy that as in this country all the good places like this to visit are all mostly at the bottom of this contry an to far away to visit but where i live in norfolk the best jen an i can hope for is a vist to an old norman castle in norwich an it dont intrest me at all
ATB to you m8ty
chris an jen

 

[rtfoe]

Thanks for sharing those pics, Rick. It'll take a life time before I can get anywhere near these places. Corvid just made it worst.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[rtfoe]

There seems to be a lot of planes parked outside like a Voodoo, Neptune and C-47 besides an F-14, Mig-29 and a weird helicopter seen from the top of Googlemaps.

Cheers,
Richard

 

[Jim R]

Fancy having two towns called Salem. Just leads to old brains like mine being confused
Off to Google The Salem Witches.

 

[Mini Me]

No worry Jim....Just goes to show what a lack of imagination some of the elected officials suffered from when coming up with new names of places for people to live...LOL Rick H.

 

[Dave Ward]

Ha - try this for size - most common city names in the US

1	Washington	88
2	Springfield	41
3	Franklin	35
4	Greenville	30

Null pointe for originality!!! ( Salem is 8th with 26 )
Dave

 

[Mini Me]

So true Dave.......the Colonies also Plagiarized a lot of town names from the UK.......I can't imagine how many but it must be in the hundreds. Rick H.