Hercules Pavilion at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon [Credit: Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum/Robert Zeh]
Key Takeaways:
The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (EASM) has completed an internal "reset" to enhance visitor interaction, allowing people to get closer to and walk around the aircraft displays.
Aircraft have been rearranged and organized by role or function, such as fighters by generation, to illustrate the evolution of their design and purpose.
Key exhibits include the iconic "Spruce Goose" and emotionally significant aircraft like the Huey Dustoff helicopter, which features a Vietnam memorial for visitors.
The museum has just undergone what EASM CEO Scot Laney calls “a reset” to enhance visitors’ interaction with the aircraft on display by removing as many chains and barriers as possible but still maintaining safety—for example, to avoid hitting your head.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
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