Evergreen Air Museum Revisited

Some new stuff is at the Museum- They turned the upper floor of the gift shop into the gun room, with a large fraction of the gun collection on display. Also they got a nice Mig-21!

They are going to be building a water park at the museum and are bringing in a 747 to put on top, with people climbing up to enter it, then exiting down a water slide.

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• Evergreen
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• McMinnville
• Oregon
• Gun
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• Mig-21

[jurgenmg42]

Отличный музей!!!

[RogCBrand]

@jurgenmg42 Благодарите Вас!

[Cam6697]

I really loved the D-Day paratrooper photos awesome video 5/5

[RogCBrand]

Yeah! I think that's the best part! What would be really cool is if the museum had a couple dozen of them!

:P

Oh, I got up at 3:30 Sunday morning and went out to watch them move the 747 across the highway. It was pretty cool, though it was still dark out, so the pictures and vid turned out bad- much of it you can't see a thing at all!

[RogCBrand]

Yeah, the carbines were developed originally for cavalry use- a shorter rifle that could easily be carried and used on horseback. It was picked to be used by paratroopers & fighting in jungle areas too because of it's short length- though that also makes it less accurate over longer ranges- but in the jungle that's no problem & for paratroopers the smaller size was more important.

[RogCBrand]

Yeah, it was cool just that he got a Walther, but especially because it had been owned by a German detective & he left that poem which gave it a sort of history!

Yeah, our navy was one of the worst in the world in the later 1800s, behind most South American countries! Also our rifles were poor-the Spanish in the war had the Mauser while we had basically Civil War era stuff! The Krag was a Norwegian rifle used by them, us & Denmark. Most of ours though were the obsolete model 1889 black powder.

[mantopilas]

A Walther?!?!?!? That is so awesome, they can shoot really fast. I have never heard of a Krag-Jorgensen, but that also sounds really cool. I had no idea about the length of a Carbine. It is a lot shorter than I thought it would be, but I guess that is good for close range. Wow, what I would not give to be able to fire all 100+ of your dad's guns!

[RogCBrand]

Oh! The other really neat one is a Walther pistol my dad got when I was in high school.

It came in a box with a long poem written by the previous owner- a German police detective. He had me take it to school to have my math teacher, who knew German translate it. It was great, something about how the pistol is the officer's best friend, there to defend him in time of need, or something along those lines!

[RogCBrand]

Thanks David!

Yeah the carbine is at the top at 1:26 and I believe one of the paratroopers had one but I didn't get it in a picture.

My mom's grandfather who died in 1979 at 100 had a friend who fought in the Spanish-American War of 1898 & got his 1896 Krag-Jorgensen Rifle. After he died my aunt got it but she gave it to my dad. He has something between 100 to 200 guns but I think all the others are from the last 100 years.

[mantopilas]

Those guns are really cool. I love all types of guns, and I would love to shoot all of those ones. By chance did they have a M1A1 carbine? It is a really nice gun. What guns, like the antique ones, does your family own?