The GPS receiver bought us to the Museum without too much trouble.
This view is actually the back of the building. The
Museum's web site
has an excellent photo of the Museum, taken near dusk, which
shows both the building and its main attraction.
The GPS receiver bought us to the Museum without too much trouble.
This view is actually the back of the building. The
Museum's web site
has an excellent photo of the Museum, taken near dusk, which
shows both the building and its main attraction.
This is a model of the Museum's main attraction, the Spruce Goose.
There are a number of display boards about this plane:
This diagram shows the size of the Spruce Goose compared with
a Boeing 747. They are about the same length, but the wingspan
of the Spruce Goose is very much bigger.
The rear end of the Spruce Goose. Note the other planes,
specifically the plane on the right is likely from the same
timeframe! And also there are some people too.
That's an SR-71 - the very supersonic spy plane - under the
Spruce Goose's wing!
The fronts of the SR-71 and the Spruce Goose.
Inside the belly of the beast! Looking towards the tail.
This aircraft was never designed for passenger service, though
troop transport was one possible use, but mostly freight hauling.
The front end. I presume the stairs lead up to the cockpit.
Although I believe it's also possible to walk through the wing
(but not open to visitors).
Four engines on each wing. These engines look small, but I
suspect that's more a comment on the size of the airframe more
than the size of the engines.
That's a DC-3 under the wing of the Spruce Goose.
After seeing all of interest in the Museum, we started on the journey home. This took us through Portland, during the late afternoon, so we were caught up in traffic, although my recollection is that it was more of a problem on the roads leading to I-5 than the freeway.
For dinner we stopped in Tacoma at Simon and Seafort's for a delightful dinner, as always, And, of course, we enjoyed the view over the southern end of Puget Sound as the sun set. And by the time dinner was over, the traffic had cleared and the journey home along I-5/I-405 was relaxed.
And so came to an end the west coast part of this journey. But there was still a few days before Yvonne and Peter headed off to London.
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