By Stewart Bailey, curator 1929 Curtiss Fledgling During the first week of March, visitors that came to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum had the rare opportunity to see an aircraft being built right before their eyes. The subject of this unusual activity was the Museum’s newest restoration project, the 1929 Curtiss Fledgling, which was donated last summer by Gladys Burrill and her family. The Fledgling was originally designed by Curtiss in 1927 to meet a U.S. Navy requirement for…
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11
A Fledgling gets its wings
By Amy Quick, Director of Membership February is finally here. And that means it is Member Appreciation Month! If you’re not a Museum member, then it is the perfect time to join. Each new and renewing member will receive free IMAX movie passes, as well as the added benefits of a Museum membership, which includes gift store discounts, free admission to more than 250 museums through the ASTC program, invitations to members-only events (aka Member Appreciation Month!), and free admission…
Jan
21
Large Binocular Telescope
By John Cowens, guest blogger Raised in Bluffton, Ind., John Cowens received a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Indiana University. He is a master elementary and middle school teacher with 32 years of experience. During his teaching career, Cowens was awarded several prestigious teaching awards, and from 1999 – 2007, he was also a science columnist for Teaching K-8 magazine and received an award for “contributing outstanding science lessons.” Since 2002, he has served as NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Solar…
Dec
11
Global Hawk Arrives
By Stewart Bailey, curator In the midst of one of the coldest winter spells that Oregon has seen in a while, the Museum moved its newest acquisition, which was most warmly received. The new artifact was a mock-up of the Northrop-Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk reconnaissance UAV. The Global Hawk is one of the most sophisticated tools available to military planners in the current war on terrorism, and operates regularly over Iraq and Afghanistan. Similar in mission to the U-2 spy…
By Stewart Bailey, curator If you ask any aviation enthusiast to rank the top ten most beautiful aircraft ever built, chances are the Lockheed Constellation will appear on that list. Developed by Lockheed just before World War II, the Constellation owed much of its early capabilities to its lead customer, TWA, and the airline’s major stock-holder, Howard Hughes. With the outbreak of World War II, the Constellation first flew as a military transport and served as the C-69, but after…
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