The Spruce Goose!
When we went into the door of the museum, one of the docents told us that the best place to get pictures would be upstairs above the Gift Shop. It is so large that you can't even get it all in the camera in one picture. They have it set up so that you can go up those stairs and walk through it in a "U" and come out the other door.
It was made out of wood (but birch rather than spruce) due to wartime restrictions on metal. Several layers of wood were bonded together. Its maiden and only flight was on November 2, 1947. Howard Hughes preferred to call it a Flying Boat as it was meant to be a troop transport.
This shows the tail section, but we are still under the wing up where we were taking pictures.
Dave did a good job of getting all of the fuselage in this picture.
A U.S. Mail plane and others are dwarfed in the shadow of the Spruce Goose.
Inside the plane looking back at the tail area. The beach balls were somehow used for flotation in the wings. The canisters were CO2, and I don't know what they were used for. There is plexi-glass in front of the camera, so it was hard to get a picture.
Looking through the plexi-glass at the nose. The stairs go up to the flight deck, but they wanted $25.00 more to go up there . . . but you got a picture of your party in the cockpit.
So we opted for this instead!
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