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Known as the “Tin Goose,” the Ford Tri-Motor made scheduled flights possible and changed aviation history. In this episode, ...
If you’re an airplane aficionado, the Pacific Northwest is a pretty good place to be. Travel+Leisure magazine recently ranked the 10 best aviation museums in the country, and two of them are located ...
Today the Spruce Goose is one of 108 aircraft on display at the museum. It sits in the center of the building, its keel countersunk about seven feet into the floor.
Last week a live ringer for the Tin Goose, Aircraft Hydroforming’s newly refined Bushmaster 2000, trundled down a Long Beach, Calif., runway and took off over the Pacific on a test flight.
Some historic aircraft seem like a barrel for holding superlatives. One of these, the H-4 Hercules, goes one better because it's also at the center of one of the strangest stories involving ...
A piece of music by the composer Philip Glass will be performed this weekend under the tail of Oregon’s iconic Spruce Goose airplane. The piece, “1000 Airplanes on the Roof,” has rarely been ...
The 2-AT was the first all-metal American certified aircraft. The aircraft was dubbed the “Tin Goose” by the news media at the time. It featured padded seats, opening windows, and even a bathroom.
The Spruce Goose, which is housed at Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, has been relisted on the National Register of Historic Places.
Flight was buffeting and breathtaking. By the time I took my flights in "Tin Goose" aircraft from Harry Clever Field in New Philadelphia in 2007 and from Akron-Canton Airport in 2011 – both in ...
Michael Blume, 62, of Burnsville, Minn., was killed when the Grumman Goose aircraft he was piloting crashed into the parking lot of Lost Trail Powder Mountain late Tuesday afternoon.