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Originally Posted by M_Six
Is that a floor fan inside the second window, Ed? Looks like one I have in my office. Gives you a good sense of the enormous size of that thing if you can walk around inside with like it's your living room.  |
Yeah it sure is. It's pretty dang big inside, but not really any more usable space than a modern big cargo jet. It was an idea a bit ahead of its time, power wise, not to mention all the man hours to put a laminated plane that size together! The end of the war before it was even finished killed the whole premise. Still very impressive to see it in person.
They wanted 50 bucks to get into the cockpit and get a picture taken
I have over 10,000 hours riding in military cargo planes, plenty of it up front, so no thanks.
The museum is very impressive though, and right in the middle of Oregon wine country, so definitely worth a detour if you're in the area. Plus if you have kids, what youngster wouldn't want to ride a waterslide out of a 747?
747 Waterslide 2 by
lennycarl08, on Flickr