Some pics from my Oregon Washington trip

[Tulio]

Is that Space Ship One the real deal? And that's at FHC?

-David

Was asking myself the same question. There were probably two of them? One at the EAA HQ in Oshkosh.


Saludos,


Tulio

[Second Air Force]

I think I remember as a kid walking through it in Long Beach that it had the side windows as well. They had scaffolding built up to the flight deck area so you could walk along that area on the outside and then you could walk through the cockpit and flight engineer station. Anybody else remember that from it's days across from the Queen Mary? And the Evergreen group recovered all the control surfaces with about two football fields worth of fabric. Can you say "Ribstitch" about a million times. By the way Gary, didn't you fly a really small version of the Spruce Goose at Reno-- the Spruce Sparrow?

Ellen and I visited the HK-1 at Long Beach in '87, and I believe you're right about the catwalk on the outside. I think I took photos of it......but I'll never find them. I do have a question--did the clamshell doors for the HK-1 make the trip along with the airplane? There was a display of the prototype doors behind the airplane when it was at Long Beach, and if memory serves there was a Sherman in the doorway to show the size of the loading doors. The plan had been to have bow doors on the production machines.

[Rod Schneider]

Is that Space Ship One the real deal? And that's at FHC?

-David

Was asking myself the same question. There were probably two of them? One at the EAA HQ in Oshkosh.


Saludos,


Tulio

That one is a replica, as is the one at the EAA museum. The real one is at the Smithsonian downtown.

[Chris]

I don't know if the clamshell doors made the trip but you're right. I remember them too with the sherman tank rolling out. Do you also remember the cockpit mock up where you could get your picture taken? Spaceship One at FHC is a composite mockup but a very good one. Good one about the A-7 in the handicapped parking.

[retroaviation]

Thanks for the insight on the extra windows on the Goose, y'all. I appreciate it.

Gary

[Second Air Force]

I don't know if the clamshell doors made the trip but you're right. I remember them too with the sherman tank rolling out. Do you also remember the cockpit mock up where you could get your picture taken? Spaceship One at FHC is a composite mockup but a very good one. Good one about the A-7 in the handicapped parking.

I don't really remember the cockpit mockup/photo thingy, Chris. The two things that stuck in my memory were the extreme size of the airplane and how beautifully the hull woodwork was executed. It reminded me of the inside of a gargantuan piano.

We also visited the Queen Mary that day--dad went overseas aboard her on the crossing when she collided with HMS Curacao near Scotland.

Scott

[Michel C-GNCJ]

Yeah, the 109 is a real beauty ! Here are a few views of that open engine compartment:




Lovely !

[bdk]

I remember them too with the sherman tank rolling out.

That was the Planes of Fame Sherman on loan to the Spruce Goose.

[tom d. friedman]

yes, those cuts in the spruce goose are their to expose the inner construction for view & to bring in better light. what a 1st class museum!!

[The Inspector]

SCALED COMPOSITES/P. ALLEN had 6 copies made of SPACESHIP 1. The original is @ NASM, MoF has a copy hanging over the cut open 737 next to the elevator, FHC has one and I'm not certain of the locations of the others-
Anybody????