747

[petrolscooterboy]

Such a beautiful plane really nice

[RogCBrand]

Yeah they are beautiful! And it's amazing to think they're 40 years old!

[JesseAndMike]

That sounds like an awesome idea for a waterpark!! :O Never thought about anything like that before.

[RogCBrand]

Yeah! It'll be really cool! I bet all the kids for 20 miles around are really excited!

:P

[mantopilas]

That is a really cool idea for a waterpark.

By the way I just saw this video.

What I want to know is how in the world did the owner have enough money to purchase a 747?

[RogCBrand]

Thanks David!

LOL! He's very rich! His company has been providing aircraft- helicopters, smaller planes & stuff like cargo 747s to the government since I was a kid. Those government ties seem to have served us well from the cool stuff like the perfect condition SR-71 Blackbird to the chance that we'll get one of the space shuttles when they retire!

[imintopunk]

cool footage and pictures!

i saw this was added a week ago but i never commented on it. i guess i just never saw it in the subscriptions box.

[RogCBrand]

Thanks Dylan!

I have such a hard time with the Youtube problems- it's like every now and then it shows videos from the last few days or weeks that I've already watched. Skipping through them I worry I'll miss one I didn't see.

[Zachattack2]

Very cool (and patriotic) concept for a waterslide! :)

[RogCBrand]

Yeah, Evergreen's owner, who has aircraft doing various duties for the government-from developing a 747 air tanker for forest fires, to delivering cargos to isolated places in the world, etc., had a son who was an F-15 fighter pilot and he was the main force behind getting the Spruce Goose there and opening an air museum.  After he died in a car accident his dad pushed ahead with the museum and it just keeps getting bigger and better!

[smileykai77]

^^, How was you allowed to film?! o0

[RogCBrand]

Hey Kai!

:D

I've been a member of the museum since it opened years back and we get notices for all kinds of stuff happening there. We had to get there before 4:45 a.m., when they'd close off the highway, so it was impressive how many people got up so early on a Sunday morning to come watch!

:P

[assortedfish]

woah really!?! so its gonna be a slide!?

thats insane! i wish i could go there!

[RogCBrand]

Yeah! I'll post vid when it's up and running- I'm thinking it won't be until next summer, maybe spring at the earliest.

I hope one day you can come up and visit it- it's a great museum plus with the water park it'll be a great place to spend a weekend!

[curtisdabassist]

haha that was really cool!

[RogCBrand]

Thanks Curtis!

[TheReviewKid]

WOW! I really want to go down that slide now!

What a great idea, good vid!

[RogCBrand]

Thanks! Hopefully they'll have a lot of other cool stuff too!

[bdsninja]

WOW, that sounds like a killer slide!!!

[RogCBrand]

Yeah, it should be great!

[WillNeverBackDown]

that will be a killer water slide, pretty creative whoever thought it up

[RogCBrand]

I know! With the Spruce Goose, and some other incredible air planes and space craft, that'll be something else so impressive there- and we may get one of the shuttles when they start to retire!

:D

Oh!  I notice in the related videos to the right, they show an Evergreen 747 they use as a water tanker to fight forest fires! Can you imagine the amount of water it can drop on a fire, compared to what would be a tiny amount from a helicopter or smaller plane! I'd love to see one in action!

[1insertbandnamehere1]

are you serious! thats gunna be the most awesome water slid ever

[RogCBrand]

Yeah! I think it was such a great idea! And this is by the McMinnville airport- McMinnville is about 30,000 people in the middle of farming land, so the museum and now the water park are big here.

Plus my sister, sister-in-law & their kids have to drive about 200 miles up to Washington to go to the nearest water park now, so it'll be cool that we'll have one right in our backyard!

:P