Evergreen Aviation Museum

The Evergreen Aviation Museum is located in McMinnville, OR and is the home of the Spruce Goose (see above picture). It is the largest flying boat and was built primarily out of wood (birch wood though, not spruce).
To get some perspective of the size of the plane, DH & the kids are in the above picture in front of the two doors on the side. I blew up the section with them in the picture which you can see to the left.


I think this was DH's favorite plane at the museum. It is an SR-71A Blackbird which is the world's fastest and highest flying "air-breathing" aircraft. It was built in 1966 and used for reconnaisance.

This is the A-26C which is one of the planes that Grandpa White flew in World War II.






While DH & his parents went on a guided tour of the museum, I took the kids over to the children's hands-on section.


They had fun climbing into the different model planes there and then I took them to a section that had dozens of computers running Microsoft's Flight Simulator program.


Once we figured out how to use the controllers and buttons, the kids enjoyed that as well.