Monthly Archives: November 2019

Road Trip[4] – Seattle Museum of Flight

We headed north from McMinnville to our trip destination – the Seattle/Tacoma area – to spend time with extended family.  I took a half day to check out the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field, just south of the city of Seattle.

The Museum is located right on the flight line, next to the Boeing Military Delivery Center.  There were a line of KC-46 tankers and this Australian Air Force P-8 parked on the other side of the fence:

IMG_5937

Continue reading

Advertisement

Road Trip[3] – Evergreen Air and Space Museum

From Grass Valley we worked our way up I-5 into Oregon.  We spent two days at the Evergreen Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.  Of course Evergreen is the home of the Spruce Goose, with one of the buildings built specifically to house her.

There is no way to get a picture inside the building that does justice to the scale of the Hughes H-4 Flying Boat, but here is one showing three of the four R-4360 radial engines on the port side wing:

Continue reading