This past weekend several of us went out to McMinnville to the Evergreen Aviation Museum (www.sprucegoose.org).  What a great place to spend a day!  If you haven't been there yet, the trip is well worth the time. Those of us in the group included Grant, Zane (Grant's grandson), Bob Pearson, Bob Walker, Jerry Tofte, and Mike McGuyer.

We were able to go inside the Spruce Goose and have a look around. You could hold an indoor event in that fuse.  We drooled over the P40, P51 and SR71 Blackbird.  So many aircraft in perfect condition.  Most of them are flyable.

Then Bob Walker persuaded the guardian of the B17 to give us (and only us) a guided tour INSIDE the B17.  We discovered that he was a pilot of a B17 at the age of 18.  He flew over 30 missions to Germany.  He was very informative and gracious to us.  What a thrill -- a personnel tour of a B17 by a living pilot who flew a B17!   WOW!

Later we had to go check out the RC field behind the Evergreen Museum. Our field is still number one.  What an experience!

(Photos and writeup courtesy of Mike McGuyer.)