October 2007
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| The Evergreen Aviation Museum displays a number of military and civilian aircraft, most notably, the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose". The museum is located in McMinnville, Oregon near the headquarters of Evergreen International Aviation. Oregon Route 18 separates the museum from the company operations and McMinnville Municipal Airport. The museum was founded by Michael Smith, a former pilot in the United States Air Force and an executive at Evergreen Aviation. |
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| Below: Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor Tin Goose -- Built in 1928, this Tri- Motor, serial number 8, flew the pioneering passenger service between San Diego and New York for Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) beginning in early 1929. | ||||
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Russian
Photon Space Capsule
-- Launched
from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome north of Moscow, Russia on April 11, 1990,
and propelled by a Soyuz rocket this Photon space capsule served the
French “Operation Crocodile.” Functioning from the central portion of
the seven-ton spaceship, the Photon launched over 1,500 pounds of
scientific devices into space to conduct experiments. The sixth in the
Photon series, this design is the first module in which the recovery of
on board objects as part of a wide research spectrum occurred. Donated
by Museum Chairman Mr. Delford M. Smith, the Photon Capsule has on it
the signature of Soviet Cosmonaut Marshal Gherman Titov. This
spacecraft is the sixth in the series of Foton satellites manufactured
by the Kozlov company. This capsule completed 250 earth orbits in
15 days before recovery in Russia. |
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| Hughes Flying Boat, H-4, HK-1 Spruce Goose -- The Hughes Flying Boat represents one of man’s greatest attempts to conquer the skies as the largest airplane ever constructed. It flew only one time on November 2, 1947. Conceived as a personnel and material carrier, the single hull prototype was designed to fly Trans-Atlantic to avoid World War II German submarines that were sinking Allied ships in large numbers. Completed in 1947 after the end of the War, the wooden winged giant is nearly six times bigger than any aircraft of its time. The press insisted on calling the Hughes Flying Boat the “Spruce Goose,” a name that its billionaire builder Howard Hughes despised. Most of the huge plane is actually made of birch, with only small amounts of maple, poplar, balsa, and, yes, spruce. Birch was chosen because testing proved it light, strong, and resistant to splitting, dry rot and deterioration. MORE . . . | 
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| Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird -- The Blackbird is the world’s fastest and highest flying “air-breathing” production aircraft. On July 28, 1976, the SR-71 set a world speed record of 2,193 miles per hour. The same day, another SR-71 set a world altitude record of 85,068.997 feet! To achieve a low drag at Mach 3+ speeds, Lockheed designed the SR-71 with a delta wing configuration. Its two Pratt and Whitney J-58 engines operate as ordinary jet engines at low speeds and are switched to ramjets at speeds above 2,000 miles per hour. Although retired by the Air Force in 1990, a few Blackbirds received funding from Congress for additional flights. The Museum’s SR-71A (61-7971/NASA 832) flew for NASA crews as part of the reactivation program in 1995 and 1996, then retired. On long-term loan from the United States Air Force Museum, the Blackbird is among the Museum’s newest aircraft. | 
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