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OMSI is excellent, but I really have to recommend The Evergreen Air And Space Museum. The Spruce Goose itself is worth seeing, but the incredible collection sitting literally under it's wings is what makes it fun.

My wife and I got to the DC area and took in the Smithsonian last year, including Udvar-Hazy - It was incredible, but really didn't compare in many ways to Evergreen.

-Boeing Museum in Seattle http://www.museumofflight.org/
Fairly small, but has a lot of early pioneer planes hanging there.

-Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinville Oregon (About 1 hr south of Portland)
http://www.sprucegoose.org/ (It houses Howard Hughes' famed 'Spruce Goose'... you'll never understand just how huge that puppy is until you're nose-to-nose with it.)

Evergreen Aviation and Space Musuem, in McMinnville, west of Portland OR, has already erected 'coming soon' billboards and made space indoors for one of the retired Shuttle's...will be a nice bookend to their Titan II missle that stands upright in the newest exhibit hall.

Hmmm I wonder if a fueled up Titan II can lift a shuttle orbiter?

Evergreen Aviation and Space Musuem, in McMinnville, west of Portland OR, has already erected 'coming soon' billboards and made space indoors for one of the retired Shuttle's...will be a nice bookend to their Titan II missle that stands upright in the newest exhibit hall.

There's also a great SR-71 on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon. It is remarkably well presented, with Buick and Chevrolet starter carts and an engine display.

You can also see one at the Dryden Flight Center in California - I've seen the Pima SR-71, and it is in decent shape, but not as good as the aforementioned examples of this amazing (especially so for a late-50s design) aircraft.

This place has it: http://www.sprucegoose.org/

I don't think the spruce goose has landing gear.

The Hughes Hercules was certainly an impressive aircraft, there are any number of jet-powered aircraft that are larger, many of them designed back in the 60's.

Hughes' accomplishment was a massive one, but it is not unsurpassed.

I was delighted to go see the Hercules in its new home in Oregon. I had no idea when I moved up here that this super-cool plane was parked less than an hour from my place. Nice little air museum, that.

It's amazing that this giant of an airplane is actually bigger than the legendary Spruce Goose. It's amazing how technology has progressed from a rudimentary wooden substructure to this bleeding edge aluminum/steel airframe. Lighter, stronger, and more economical than Hughes could ever have imagined, this Airbus A380 is a marvel of modern manufacturing.

The only issue is whether the capacity will be taken advantage of effectively. While most flights now are booked solid, will the number of passengers be high enough to make the construction of these behemoths profitable?

Remember the "Hercules", otherwise known as the "Spruce Goose."

http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_artifacts/exhi bits.html

Spruce Goose - large, bloated, obsolete, unsafe, and can barely get off the ground.

Please see this page for a description of why the HK-1 / H-4 came about. It's part of the Official Spruce Goose Web Page

Please see this page for a description of why the HK-1 / H-4 came about. It's part of the Official Spruce Goose Web Page