By Philip Jaeger, Director of Operations The Museum hosted our first Photo Contest this year. It was more of an experiment than anything else, but we were astonished by the number of amazing entries that were submitted. Oftentimes we hear that our airplanes can be difficult to photograph because they are static objects and the Museum is made up primarily of windows that can cause unusual lighting situations. But, some of these photographers made these planes come alive. I hope…
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H-34 Choctaw Helicopter
By Philip Jaeger, Director of Operations The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum recently welcomed a new arrival, the Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw helicopter. As always, the helicopter seemed to grow once it got inside the building. It always seems that once I have a spot picked out for an aircraft, it is never the right size. The aircraft, as you can see in the pictures below, started out in bad shape. The Museum restoration crew in Marana, Arizona refurbished the helicopter…
By Philip Stuva, Director of Development On Saturday October 10, 2009, with family and friends from six different countries in attendance, Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum unveiled a monument in remembrance of John R. Jankowski. Jankowski was born to a family of foresters in Poland in 1913. John became an officer in the Polish Army and was captured by the Russians and made a prisoner of war in 1939 and miraculously managed to avoid the fate of those in Katyn.…
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A World in Miniature
by Stewart Bailey, Curator For thousands of years, people have made scale models of objects from the world around them. From models of royal barges found in the tombs of Egypt’s Pharaohs, to complex three dimensional architectural renderings, models have been used to bring the real world “down to size.” On Saturday, September 19, the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum hosted the largest display of modeler’s art in Oregon, as the Oregon Historical Model Society put on their annual model…
by Philip Jaeger, Director of Operations Many of you have probably turned your head to stare at the back wall of the IMAX and looked up at the windows impatiently waiting for your movie to start. So in this blog, I thought it might be a good idea to tell you what happens on the other side of those windows. Starting off, the IMAX Theater at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is one of the best in the world…
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