good afternoon and welcome to exit through the gift shop today we are going to visit
the Tillamook air museum the museum is housed in this World War two blimp
hangar which is one of the largest wooden structures in North America
the size of this hangar structure is incredible you can't you really can't tell just how large
it is on video standing inside it is incredibly open it's almost 200 feet tall this is a map of
the blimp hangars that was established as a ring around the United States as defense in World
War 2 you can see that most of them have since been destroyed in fact one of the two hangars
in Tillamook Oregon has been destroyed and was destroyed by fire only one hangar remains hangar
B and that's what we're standing in today here we have some remains from the German airship the
Hindenburg which had exploded over New Jersey in 1937 here's an example of the scale of the
different blimps that have been made here's the Goodyear blimp at about a hundred and ninety
feet and by comparison the Hindenburg was over eight hundred feet long and you can get a feel
for what it's like being a pilot by sitting in the cockpit of one of these flight trainers
this is a douglas a-26 sea invader this aircraft had the distinction
of being one of the only aircraft to serve in world war ii the Korean and Vietnam wars
this German aircraft was one of the first jet trainers and sported a V tail configuration
this is a practice bomb it has the same dimensions and weight to simulate a real
bomb when used for training this fairchild gk1 was named after the
inventor who designed early aviation cameras specifically for military use
this exhibit recreates a replica of a British air-raid shelter and there
the orders are incredibly cramped it would be quite nerve-wracking to be traveling with movies
but necessary to potentially survive bombing this exhibit recreates the crash site from a Helldiver
crash and teaches visitors about investigation techniques used to survey the crash scene
also on display as a mini guppy this is one of Boeing's first
commercial aircraft to be made after World War two