A Aviatory Experience

A week ago today, Jeremy woke up with a cold. A couple days later I came down with it. Needless to say, last school week was extremely trying. Many rolls of toilet paper, bowls of chicken noodle soup, cups of soothing tea, and packets of saltine crackers later, today I woke up without a sore throat and a headache, and though we both have the sniffles/cough/unfortunate need to spew revolting matter from our mouths, we drove out to the air museum near McMinville to do a little post-illness adventuring.

The air museum is called the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum. Unfortunately the Space part is under construction and won't be open until June, but we still had fun looking at the "air" display, looking at all the airplanes and helicopters outside, and wandering around the IMAX building, which shows 3-D movies (that we didn't view) and currently has the micminville school district science competitions displayed, which were super cute and fun to look at. Here are some of the pictures we took while we were there:

Sitting pretty, first class...

A fighter Plane: P-38 used in the "Pacific Theatre"

A Custom plane with a cute little face. Aw.

A WWI German Tri-Plane

A P-51 Fighter plane: Used during WWII

A Now-a-day Stunt Plane

A B-27, WWII: Used in the Dolittle Raid


The Spruce Goose: The Plane for which it was all made. Its wings span is longer than a foot-ball field, and it's the biggest plane made out of wood: birch.

Jeremy says this is an Infantry helmet.... why its in the air museum??

Some kind of American trainer plane

A Vietnam Bomber... (or training plane)

Careful...

"The Strutting Peacock"

"I just have to finish blow-drying my hair..."

Jeremy gives you his best Roger O. Thomhill, of North by Northwest

And that my friends, concludes this days happenings. Thanks to Jeremy for letting us in on the names and many happy uses of the above mentioned aero-planes. I'm going to go make some tea.