My lovely wife bought some VIP passes to the Evergreen Flight Museum at a silent auction and we used them while in McMinnnville, OR the day after Christmas.
This was my second trip but what a humbling experience to actually sit in Howard's seat.
The pilot's seat of the Spruce Goose.
An RV grin is better than a Hughes scowl.
Spruce Goose cockpit
Flight engineer's station
View of Spruce Goose cockpit from the ground. Notice the "Experimental" over the door.
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Mike Macon
RV6A
Carbon Cub EX
VAF #201
Last edited by n5lp : 12-29-2008 at 06:06 PM.
Reason: Showed pictures per request of poster
I wanna know how you're supposed to bring all 8 throttles forward together.
__________________ "What kind of man would live where there is no daring? I don't believe in taking foolish chances but nothing can be accomplished without taking any chance at all." - Charles A. Lindbergh Jamie | RV-7A First Flight: 7/27/2007 (Sold)
I wanna know how you're supposed to bring all 8 throttles forward together.
I would think you don't, the FE does. Just think about synchronizing all eight engines. Somewhere I read that each engine has five magnetos, I'm still trying to understand the starting procedure on those big radials.
What is really cool is they could walk/crawl down the wing and reach the back of the engine in flight to service it.
If any of you ever get the chance to tour this thing, do it! It is just awesome! (I saw it back in the 80's when it was in LA.)
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Bill R.
RV-9 (Yes, it's a dragon tail)
O-360 w/ dual P-mags
Build the plane you want, not the plane others want you to build!
SC86 - Easley, SC www.repucci.com/bill/baf.html
I got to see the Spruce Goose up close when it was in Long Beach a few years ago. It is an amazing aircraft. The strangest thing to me was being able to walk around in the cockpit like it was a Greyhound bus. It is a must see if you are ever close by.
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Jim Wright
RV-9A N9JW 90919 SoldArkansas http://www.jimsairplanes.com
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"It's a brutal struggle for the biscuit."
Do they let you walk all around inside the Spruce Goose? Can you walk out to the engines in the wing?
Unfortunately no.
You get to go in behind/below the pilot comp, and that is it. There is a plexiglass wall separating you from the tailcone, but at least you can see back there. You also get to look up towards the cockpit via the ladder way.
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Mike Starkey
VAF 909
Rv-10, N210LM.
Flying as of 12/4/2010
Phase 1 done, 2/4/2011
Sold after 240+ wonderful hours of flight.
"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
VAF Charity Cap Sightings
(kidding) I think it was moved in 1990. 
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