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Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: brady on March 04, 2002, 02:37:33 PM

This past weakend I went and visited the new museum in McMinvill Oregon, the Museum has been existance for a number of years in a small building on the Evergreen international campuss at the airport in McMinvill Oregon, a few years ago they accuired the Spruce Goos and laid plans to build a place to house this huge aircraft, those planes finialy came to be and what a place they have made! The building is enourmious and beautifull it houses the Spruce Goos and a lagre number of historic aircraft, including but not limited to the following, B 17, P 38 , P 40, Spitfire XVI,P 38, Avenger, Coursare, Me 109G-10, they also have a T 34 but it has yet to moved to the new faciliaty.
  The B 17 a large aircraft is dwarfed by the Spruce Goos, it is smaller than the tail of the spruce goos! The Me 109G-10 (earler I thought they said it was a G-6) is in amasing condition it has been compleatly restored and is is Beautiful, preporteadly flight capable but to valuable to risk flying. Also they have a DeHavaland Vampire, the onlyone I have ever seen. All in all a very fun time:) If you live in the area or are pasing through I highly recomend stoping by.

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: VWE001 on March 04, 2002, 02:47:35 PM

Its actually a CASA 2111 or spanish 109 built under license. it was originally powered by a Merlin, Evergreen rebuilt the aircraft and installed a custom built DB-601. I'm not trying to take anything away from what they have done with the aircraft, just letting you know the real history of it.

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: brady on March 04, 2002, 05:48:35 PM

Very cool ty, I wondered about that:)

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: 3Fingers on March 04, 2002, 06:56:51 PM

This is what EAEI (on there web page) has to say about this aircraft

...3f

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: SOB on March 04, 2002, 07:48:34 PM

Check the O'Club...a bunch of us are headed out there on the 23rd!  Ready to go back?  :)


SOB

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: illo on March 04, 2002, 08:00:03 PM

Other 109 has bulges other 109 doesnt.

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: eskimo2 on March 04, 2002, 08:41:12 PM

I actually went to school in Mcminville 1 semester.
Sadly it was in 1984, before this museum was built.
Boring town, it seriously needed something like this to make it 1/2 cool.

eskimo

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: Bluedog on March 04, 2002, 08:55:39 PM

Stupid Q.......what's the 'Spruce Goose'? must be one big mother of a bird.

Blue

BTW, Illo is correct, the distinctive 'humps' over the breachblocks of the cowling machine guns are noticably absent from this Gustav, a very minor detail on an otherwise superb aircraft, nonetheless, he is correct.

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: brady on March 04, 2002, 09:16:22 PM

Hmmmm maybe, I will get my nails done:)

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: Lazerus on March 04, 2002, 09:57:18 PM

Hey BD, the SPruce Goose was a dream of a megalomaniac by the name of Hughes. It was designed only to take off and land in water if I remember correctly, and never managed to get in the air. The above post gives you an idea of its size.http://www.aafo.com/goose/
This is a link I found on the subject if you're interseted.

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: Captain Virgil Hilts on March 04, 2002, 10:59:11 PM

Actually, Huges himself got the "Spruce Goose" in the air, it was about 60 feet up for around a minute.

When you go to Evergreen, take a ride up to Tillamook if you have the time. They have several nice aircraft up there. You may find an older gentleman standing near a P-38 with "Tangerine" painted on its nose. A nice fellow, tall, with thinning grey hair. Introduce yourself, on the chance that it may be Captain Stan Richardson Jr. If you want to talk about the P-38 and the P-51, he's one to talk to. The plane "Tangerine" is the other P-38 that was there when Jeff Ethell died in the silver P-38. "Tangerine" was the name of Ervin Ethell's P-38. Jeff's father shot down 4 Me 109s in one mission, he was caught alone by 20 of them, he got four and escaped, without a single hole in his plane. Ethell may actually be an ace, and in fact an ace in a day, since there is another 109 listed as a probable. Memory serves correct, he was in a P-38G or H. Not bad for the "third best plane in the U.S. inventory", facing 20:1 odds, early in the war.

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: niklas on March 05, 2002, 03:31:53 AM

Quote

Originally posted by 3Fingers
This is what EAEI (on there web page) has to say about this aircraft

...3f

The picture seems to show the 109G6 of the Messerschmitt Stiftung, still flying around in germany

http://members.tripod.de/luftwaffe1/mov/109_akt_1.mov
http://members.tripod.de/luftwaffe1/mov/109_akt_2.mov

niklas

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: Seeker on March 05, 2002, 03:53:34 AM

There's more than one "megalomanic" plane that dwarfs the Fort :)

Title: Evergreen Aviation Educational Institute a must see!
Post by: Hortlund on March 05, 2002, 04:11:42 AM

Hey look at that...they put the engines on the wrong side of the wings.

(on a more serious note, what aircraft is that?  Is that the B36?)