F-4 Phantom on display at the North American Aerospace Museum in McMinniville, Oregon [Credit: Terry Howell/NAAM]
Key Takeaways:
The North American Aerospace Museum (NAAM), formerly the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, showcases a diverse collection of fighter aircraft.
NAAM's "Fighter Town USA" exhibit highlights four generations of U.S. and Soviet fighter jets, often pairing rival aircraft to illustrate their historical matchups.
The collection details the evolution of fighter technology over five decades (1942-1954), from early jet-powered designs to advancements like supersonic flight, air-to-air radar, and fly-by-wire systems.
For warbird enthusiasts, nothing compares to seeing the best designs America has to offer from each generation of fighters. That is unless they are paired with the aircraft they went up against in the not-so-friendly skies.
That’s what you will find at the North American Aerospace Museum (NAAM), formerly known as the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon.
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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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