Today I went to the Evergreen Air & Space Museum. This is where the Spruce Goose is now housed. The building was built specifically to hold the Spruce Goose.. They have so much that they have now split the displays into two buildings.
Here is a helicopter (hanging from the ceiling) carrying one of the space modules.
This is DC3.
A P38 Lightning with the wing of the Spruce Goose in the background.
They have an SR71 there with several displays and drones that were developed at the same time. This one of the cameras it would carry. The negatives were 9"X9".
This is the SR71 from above. The SR71 is still the fastest jet ever made and holds many speed records - not bad for something that was designed in the late 1950's.
This is a picture of the Spirit of St Louis (flown by Charles Linberg). It had no front window so he had to look through a periscope to see where he was going. The periscope is the little steel square in the middle of the picture. When he was landing the plane he had to stick his head out the window.
Here is a picture of the tail of the Spruce Goose. It is 80 feet high - so those are real people walking underneath it not Lego people.
This is a panorama of 6 shots of the Spruce Goose. The wings are so deep (high?) that a person who is 6 feet tall can walk from the hull / fuselage inside the wing to the furthest engine.
From the SR71 to a copy of the Wright Brothers Flyer (hanging from the ceiling) and the beginning of flight.
On my way home I passed the local drag strip and there was a race going on so I stopped by to get some pictures.
One guy was racing his Dodge Diesel.
The other day as we were leaving Bend we were treated to wonderful views of the local mountains - The Sisters.
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