Evergreen International (2023) (Patreon)

So I've had a bunch of friends in town visiting Seattle and yesterday, before they left, we all decided to go to the Evergreen Aviation Museum south of Portland, and wow, what a place. It's a very weird place; their. "hangars" are immaculate, and they have a combination of an incredibly immaculate interior display area (made up of four! buildings!) and some scrungly stuff left outside; the entire facility is surrounded by vineyards. 

This shot features a very, very rotting and de-engined 747 in the middle of the vineyard with the much nicer waterpark rooftop 747 in the background. They built this entire building called "Wings and Waves" and the centerpiece is a 747 on the roof, with waterslides coming out of the cargo doors. It's absurd (and it's also been closed for years). Evergreen International Airlines, which funded the museum originally, was a CIA front operation that got shuttered in 2013 for bankruptcy and tax evasion, so plopping a 747 on a rooftop and slamming waterslides into it probably seemed like a brilliant idea in comparison. 

What else does CIA "mysterious El Salvadorian charter company" money get you? Well, they have the H-4 Hercules, better known as the Spruce Goose. This one-of-one boatplane was directly from the mind of 1950s' own Musk-type, Howard Hughes. It's a ridiculous sight to behold and we went into the flight deck. Mindblowingly huge. 

Today I'm back at my desk working on some articles and attempting to make this apartment more livable, but here's the work I did last week now live: 2024 Lexus TX review @ Slashgear