Interesting piece on Wikipedia ......"Evergreen International" being a front
airline for the CIA !
jh
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From: "Paul Laughlin" <pelaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Oly OM" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 4:10 PM
Subject: [OM] OT Interesting Aircraft
> Off topic because shot with Fuji F70.
> Yesterday, on the way to Spirit Mountain Casino, we passsed by the
> Evergreen Aviation Museum at McMinnville, OR. I managed to catch a
> couple of shots on the fly, from the window of the car. The first one
> is at:
> <http://www.pbase.com/pelaughlin/image/127926342>
> When I looked at it on the computer, I was kind of wondering just what
> kind it is. When I went on line, I somehowdug up P2V from somewhere in
> that vast amount of useless information that seems to reside in the
> nether regions of that thing I call a brain. LOL That seemed pretty
> well to match, but there were discripancies. Then when I finally got to
> the P2V5, there it was. Even had the fire fighting slurry bomber
> image. P2V5 Neptune with the jet engines mounted outboard of the
> Recips. Looks like Evergreen has retired it from it's slurry bombing
> duties and it is slated for display. The next picture is of the Boing
> 747 display on top of a new building that is still under construction,
> it seems. I was prepared to shoot the 747, but the P2V was just by
> chance. I really need to make a trip down there just to go through the
> museum. They even have the Howard Hughes folly called the Spruce Goose.
> Paul in Portland OR
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