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- This video is my walk-through of the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinneville, Oregon, on May 19, 2018. This was during my three day planned layover in Portland as part of my "Train Odyssey 2". ON an earlier layover in the Los Angeles area, I did walk-throughs of the Petersen Automotive Museum, Queen Mary ocean liner, Yanks Air Museum, Planes of Fame Museum, March Field Air Museum, San Diego Aviation and Space Museum, and San Diego Automotive Museum, and all of my videos of those are here on TH-cam. Other TH-cam videos made during my Portland layover include the VintageTek (Tektronix) Museum in Beaverton, and my flight around Portland with Oregon Helicopters. Of course, my three video series "Train Odyssey 2" is also here on TH-cam. I also have a related video dedicated to the Howard Hughes "Spruce Goose" aircraft, located at this museum.
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I toured that museum several years ago, it really is one of the nicest aircraft museums in the country.
The kids head to the water park, I spend the day at Evergreen. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for making this video b/c it's HIGHLY likely that I won't have the opportunity to go there myself.
Thanks for posting your visit. You did a heck of a job!
What an enjoyable video, thanks for sharing.
Superb tour! Greetings from Holland
I feel compel to apologize to you: this video came on after I watched a documentary re: the transportation of the Spruce Goose and had it playing as background noise. "Who wants to see home movies of guy taking a tour of the museum containing the Goose" I thought to myself. Then when you entered and shared your tidbits of the failing Evergreen corp. and of course your vast info on ALL the plans and engines that I was shushing everyone in the room and on the edge of my seat, like an adolescent school child with hand clasp in my lap, listening to all the info. I don't know your background (perhaps I should) but I'm highly impressed. I had a good, much older, friend who was an engineer whom worked for/with Howard Hughes and I loved all the stories he told me of Howard and what kind of person he really was. (I don't want to mentioned his name for privacy purposes but I will say he married a Russian Olympian, skier I believe, who defected to the U.S. and ran her famous restaurant in New York for years. She would make us these outrages lunches that she claimed she threw together, that were amazing.) Anyway I've always wanted to see/touch the Hercules and missed out when it was in Ca. I doubt I'll make it up to Oregon so I really, really appreciate your video. Seriously, thank you for posting.
P.S. I'm a little surprise you didn't mentioned the Norma Jean photos upon entering the hanger.
I was there Aug 2015 and was fortunate to see a B-17 Flying Fortress, P-38 lighting, F4U Corsair and P-40 Warhawk. They really sold a lot of some of the most interesting planes in their collection.
It is sad . I worked for Evergreen in Arizona and all those aircraft were flown on a regular basis by Michael Smith . They even had a airshow once and you could pay 100 dollars to fly in the B 17 along with some of the other planes .
Their P-38 is probably flying somewhere.It was airworthy and stunning to stand near.
@@mikeclancy1930 The P-38M was sold to The Collings Foundation along most of the other WWII planes. The B-17 was going to replace 909 on the ride tour circuit due to the age of 909's wing spar. After the fatal crash of 909 most of the foundations plans have slowed or stopped.
The history of WWII planes at this museum is long & unfortunate. The warbirds were stored at a large hangar at PDX due to construction delays & constant redesigns by Evergreens owner Dell Smith. A B-25 they housed was sold to a international bidder because of a screw up on the part of the museum. The bulk of the warbirds were sold in a attempt to keep the museum open after creditors came for assets due to the cominhuling of funds between the museum & Evergreen airlines. The P-51D & F4U was sold under market value for personal profit by a former partner/employee without the knowledge of the museum board. On a side note the B-17 was reported to have been used as a CIA asset to insert spooks via parachute into foreign nations. The B-17 went on to fly with Evergreen for agriculture spraying & as a fire bomber.
Fabulous work on all these videos. I’ve been to some of these museums myself! Subscribed 😎👍
Great vid!
Very splendid tour. McMinneville . . . conjures up images of the UFO captured on film back in the early 1950s (1954?) by the couple on a farm near there. I enjoyed the tour. Good cinematography.
Hadn’t been there in years would be great to go there again
Thanks... Very informative...! Well done... I did want to see the Apollo Mission Control console they had there... perhaps it has been removed... Coming to Oregon soon...!
When the Spruce Goose was being readied for its sea-going barge trip North to Evergreen, the top 19ft section of 47' OA tall rudder crashed in a heap on the floor. Pieces were trucked to Ty Sunstrom's Dawn Patrol Aviation, then located outside Exeter CA, where he totally rebuilt, covered, doped, and trucked back to Long Beech, over a VERY VERY LONG weekend. I have a few original spruce, ply and fabric pieces, sitting not 3ft from where I'm typing, right now.
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thank you!
Thank you for sharing, hoping to make the trip
@24:00 F-100 Super Sabre. Also contrary to what the sign might have said that's actually A-26B not a "C" C models had glass bombardier noses, while the "B" had hard-nose with guns like the one you see here... however to confuse even more... the same airplane can be either a "B" or a "C" depending on the aforementioned noses that are installed at anyone time.
He's just reading the placards pretending to be an Avgeek.
Good video....
landing gear and tractor fascinating, love the aircraft. there's no ugly planes only ugly design. all plane have merit. ugly planes matter!
26:30 This Stearman was restored by my late uncle and his friend in the 80's in a 3 car garage in Lackawanna NY.
It's near my neighborhood....I visit often....and, every time, there's not enough time in the day.
Since you didn't mention it, when you entered to museum and saw the small propeller engine, maybe you didn't read about what it was. That engine powered drone-target models for pilots and ground troops to shoot down. Just underneath were photos of one of the workers, putting one together. She might look familiar, as her name, after she got divorced from her soldier-husband, after the war, was Marilyn Monroe. She was known to make a few movies over the years. By the way, she only got divorced because her then-husband "didn't want any wife of his" to work for a living, he would provide for whatever they needed. Gee, was he wrong-headed, marriage is a partnership, that takes the input of two people to work correctly. On the other hand, if they hadn't divorced, we might never have heard of her. With an attitude like that, I'm sure he wouldn't have wanted her to act either.
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@58:00 Lockheed Starfighter exhibit. Would the ejection seat, as displayed beside it, be a hint or just a sense of the curators humor? (Lockheed Starfighter, also known as: The Widow Maker,)
Love your walk through videos. Can't wait to visit this museum. Do the signs say whether the aircraft are replicas or do you just know?
Few aircraft museums have a lot of replicas. The serious ones make it clear through signage when an aircraft on display IS something other than original.
The one with no sign is an F100 Super Sabre
Have you toured the Pima Air & Space Museum.? It is very large but walking the displays is extreamly difficult. Also make sure you come in the dead of winter. Any other time you take your life in your hands due to sevear heat!
Ken J, I have been to the Pima museum several times, and made a Walk be Through video of it, combined with a tour of the adjacent Boneyard.
Do you remember if there are any storage lockers to rent? I want to do a bike ride out there but need to store things I can't lock up with the bike.
The floats are called wing sponce
IT'S CALLED THE HERCULES AND IT DID FLY ! Lol
Robert5185, learn how to write TH-cam comments so others can understand your point. Who are you directing your comment to?
Also, you assert that the plane "is called the Hercules". Yes, it is. It is (and was) also called a few other things, including "Spruce Goose", HK-1, etc.
As for it a actually flying, yes, most knowledible people agree on that, but there are always some that insist otherwise, usually out of ignorance or a desire to take a contrary opinion.
Id love to have a sport aerobatic plane something to just have fun that is nimble
I'm just wondering, some aircraft have a drip try under their engine and some do not. Are these airworthy? or just only certified for ground runs?
- Cool vid, many thanks and much regards.
The drip trays are to collect oil dripping from virtually all engines, in any condition from all museums, as they can drip for YEARS, no matter what you do.
At 19:00, is this the same or similar aircraft that rescued USS Indianapolis that carried the atomic stuff and sunk from a Japaneses submarine?
26:36 YYYyyyyyeeasssss!!!!
I wonder if the "replica' of the Spirit of St Louis flew.
Dan Mathers, I think all aircraft at this museum have flown, and some are still flyable. Many flyable replicas have been made of the Spirit of St Louis.
They were not sunburn, there was an issue with parents so the brothers took a different route.
Perhaps sunblock would have helped the situation. Lol
The one with no sighn next to Boeing stearmen looks like a ford of course im not good with planes
Vid really starts 6:00 in....
Turd Burglar, why the dumb comment? The video starts at the beginning. Do you think others are so dumb that they can't figure out how to fast forward past the preamble or ambience?
I visitd
I visited USA when the Spruce Goose was at Long Beach and sat in the Pilot's Seat. 🇦🇺🐨🦘✈
F-100,, Sweet PBY
6:20 Is that model Norma Jeane Baker? I read that she did similar stuff before she became famous.
Norma Jean was an assembly worker in an aircraft factory before the war, working on unmanned target drones. She was 'discovered' during a photo shoot of the plant.
you forgot the helicopters hanging from the celling
planca3430, are you sure? The museum changes the planes around a lot; there might not have been any hanging when I was there.....
OREGON: where you can drive for days, and no bugs on your windshield. thanx Chem-Trails.
"Better living through chemistry".............unfortunately, I don't subscribe to that laughable conspiracy theory.
Let me guess, the Earth is flat as well?
Rip-off...don't go $28/ head for adults, $25/seniors...saw the spruce goose at Long Beach and it was $5/ head...Air Force museum in Dayton, Ohio is free and has a lot more aircraft and missles...even a Sputnik and an East German Trabant (last 2cy. car on the highways of the world).
D Wetick, the fact that some museums charge and some don't does not make the ones that charge a "rip off". Where do you get off telling others to "don't go" because you are cheap and have an unrealistic notion of what things should cost.
As for the Air Force Museum, that is paid for by donations from museum 'friends' (I am one of those) and other philanthropic sources, because we believe in it. But to your ignorant, selfish view, the museums that can't be funded by donors and need to charge are "rip offs". Your comment and attitude disgusts me.