August 2014 Newsletter

It's Motorcycles and Snowmobiles this

Second Saturday!

If you live life on two wheels, dream of a vintage motorcycle or scooter, or love to make tracks on a snowy day with your historic sled then this day is for you!

We are showcasing Motorcycles, Scooters and Snowmobiles August 9th during our action hours at WAAAM.

Join us and learn something new!

9-5 Museum is open

10-2 A Museum in Action:
Old Motorcycles, Snowmobiles and Scooters. Stop by to see what flies and drives around the yard

11 Vintage Snowmobiles: Listen to the story of the machine and the sport by members of the Pacific NW Vintage Snowmobile Club.
(We love a bit of winter on a hot summer day!)

11 Lunch Starts- Hot off the grill. Served until 1pm

12 Restoration Shop Tour

1 See the Steam Tractor "all fired up"

5 Museum Closes

Thank you for your support in making this a fun and

safe fundraiser for the WAAAM Air & Auto Museum

See you again soon. Tell your friends...

Count Down to Fly-in

Always the weekend after Labor Day

Hood River Fly-in 2014

Running on all three cylinders!

Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum

September 6 & 7 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum invites you to walk among hundreds of antique and classic airplanes that will be flying into Hood River's Ken Jernstedt Airfield. Watch the newly restored Parker Pusher airplane fly between 8:00-9:00 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Biplane, airplane and helicopter rides are available. Book signings by authors on Saturday afternoon. Museum airplanes will fly on Sunday. Pancake breakfast begins 8 a.m. both days. Food & fun 8 to 5

Adults $10, Ages 5-18 $5

Fly-in Link- Click Here

Help Spread the Word. Print off a flyer from our website and hang it at your favorite restaurant, shop, hotel, etc.

PILOTS -

Remember: Friday night is Pilot Night.

Bring your own tie downs.

Get Pilot Info Here

Recapping the Month and

Keeping You Up to Date

Click for Photo Stream Here

117!

117 Planes on the books at WAAAM

The museum has just flown our new 1940 Rearwin Cloudster. On display now in M1 is this three seat cabin painted in "Stearman Vermilion with Insignia Blue Trim ".

WAAAM now has 4 of the 5 aircraft built by this company! We have the Sportster, Speedster, Cloudster and Commonwealth Skyranger 185. Missing is the "Junior" Keep your eye out for it!

Many thanks for the generosity of Bill Bremmeyer and Don Mayo for making this aircraft acquisition possible, to Terry Brandt and Lois Bowman for your volunteered time in the retrieval to get the Cloudster here and to all of the volunteers who got it ready to fly and display.

Learn more about the Rearwin Airplanes at this web site www.rearwin.com

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Bull Stearman... Hanging and rigging the wings.

Along with a huge airplane comes a huge project of putting all of the parts together.

1929 Bull Stearman Speedmail. One of just seven built. Alan Lopez had a dream to get it in the air again, he did so and now it is home in the Northwest again ... here at WAAAM.

Our "Bull Stearman" was so-nicknamed for its imposing physical size and extreme loudness compared to other airplanes. This was one of the six M-2's bought by Varney Airlines for use on Contract Air Mail route 32, Portland-Seattle-Spokane. Its 46-foot wingspan is the longest in the WAAAM collection, exceeding even the Boeing Model 40C. The M-2 was built to carry a pilot plus 1000 lbs. of mail. Stearman's selection of the unreliable Wright R-1750 Cyclone engine contributed to the airplane's downfall. Varney lost three of its six M-2's within months. Future orders went to Boeing for their Model 40 and no other operators ordered M-2 Speedmails. The seventh and last one built was for a private owner and used a Pratt and Whitney Hornet engine, the engine model installed here. United Airlines (of which Varney was a component) sold NC9055 in 1932. This airplane was enroute to Alaska in October, 1939 when it landed upside down in Teslin Lake, Yukon Territory. All three men aboard survived but the Bull Stearman lay there, unnoticed by all but locals until it was rediscovered in 1989 and recovered by an aviation historian. By 1999 Alan Lopez had taken ownership and invested ten years in restoring the airplane. In June, 2014 Lopez transferred ownership to WAAAM where its imposing presence can be appreciated by our visitors.

The Bull Stearman book by is available in exclusively in our gifts shop. Read Alan's story of this restoration.

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Model T Driving School : August is sold out. We are taking names for a possible September Class. If you are interested get your name on the list by calling WAAAM 541-308-1600

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See our stunning 1935 WACO YPF- 6 featured at the McAllister Museum of Aviation in Yakima, WA on August 16, for their Rare Aircraft Event. Displayed 10-12

www.mcallistermuseum.org

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The Annual Hood River Fly-in is just 30 days away

September 6 and 7 (Pilot Night is Friday the 5th)

Issue 8, 2014

Visitors Quote:

When asked if this visitor had a favorite... this is the reply.

"It's like seeing a tray with 1000 diamonds

and being forced to pick one" July 28, 2014

The

CALENDAR

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2014

August 9

Second Saturday

Motorcycles -

Life on Two Wheels & vintage snowmobile too!

August 16

Model T Driving School

September 5

Pilot Night -

part of the Hood River Fly-in

September 6 & 7

Annual Hood River Fly-in

Hundreds of planes

come & go

September 13

Second Saturday

Steam Cars, Tractors along with Hit & Miss Engines

September 13

International Model A Day

October 11

Second Saturday
The Teens: Cars & Planes.

( Dress the part! Wear your Clothes & Costumes that represent the 19Teens)

November 8

Second Saturday

Honoring the Uniform-

Military, Fire, Police, Volunteer etc.

Join us and wear yours

December 13

Second Saturday

Vintage Bicycles

Second Saturday

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MEMBERSHIP

Solo (individual) $50

Family $100

(2 adult of the same household + their children/grandchildren 18 yrs & under)

Member +1 (guest) $120

(one named member who can bring a guest)

Members +2 (guest) $150

(two named members who can bring 2 guest each )

membership benefits are

non-transferable

MEMBER BENEFITS

~ Unlimited museum visits

~ Gift Shop 10% discounts

~ Monthly Newsletter

~ Members only events ~ ~Tax deductible (check limits with your tax adviser)

Business Membership Now Available. Call us for information.

MUSEUM HOURS

Open Daily 9 ~ 5

Closed:

Thanksgiving, New Year Day

and Christmas Day

Timber Kings

are coming to WAAAM

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Timber Kings is a huge TV hit! And these famous Canadian log home and structure builders are coming to WAAAM!

During this years annual Fly-in you are invited to watch all of the goings on of construction, filming, ca-motion and fun as they build a log wind/picnic shelter on the museum property.

Pioneer Log Homes of BC founder Bryan Reid sits on the WAAAM Museum Board of Directors.

Pouring Concrete

The digging and setting of the concrete forms for our Historic Marquee Sign has begun!

Schuepbach Custom Concrete is hard at it again on the museum grounds.

Drive buy and watch as we put the finishing touches on erecting our new and permanent road sign.

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a museum we love!

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Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum

1600 Air Museum Rd. Hood River, OR 97031

541-308-1600

info@waaamuseum.org