Hughes H-4 Hercules - Wikipedia
WEBThe Hughes H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during World War II, it was not completed in time to be used in the war.
The Spruce Goose - Evergreen Museum
WEBWhile taxiing on the water, Howard Hughes surprised the gathered crowd of onlookers by suddenly lifting the aircraft off the sea during a taxiing test. Spruce Goose was airborne for about 30 seconds, 25 feet above the harbor for just under half a mile.
Why Howard Hughes Flew the Spruce Goose Only Once - HistoryNet
WEBNov 2, 2022 · Howard Hughes called it the H-4 Hercules—a fitting name for the largest and most powerful airplane of its time. The press, however, dubbed his prized creation the “Spruce Goose”—a name Hughes despised.
Howard Hughes’s “Spruce Goose” flies | November 2, 1947 - HISTORY
WEBNov 24, 2009 · The Spruce Goose—at one time the largest aircraft ever built—is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight.
The Spruce Goose: The All-Wood Plane That Only Flew Once - All …
WEBJul 22, 2024 · Measuring 218 feet long and weighing a quarter of a million pounds, the Spruce Goose was designed to transport military materiel across the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. During the 1930s, few men in America were as well-known as …
The Spruce Goose - Hughes Historic District
WEBThe infamous aircraft that is now commonly known as the “Spruce Goose” originated in the mind of Henry J. Kaiser, owner of an Oakland-based ship manufacturing company, in response to the escalating threat of Axis Powers submarines in …
Howard Hughes and His Larger-Than-Life Dream Machine, the Spruce Goose …
WEBNov 1, 2012 · When contracted by the U.S. government in the mid-1940s to build a military transport plane, he responded in his usual modest style and set about creating the H-4 Hercules, a massive wooden...
The Spruce Goose - a single flight, a lifelong impact - GlobalAir.com
WEBNov 2, 2023 · The Spruce Goose, the largest flying boat ever built, flew for the first and only time on Nov. 2, 1947. Eccentric billionaire filmmaker and pilot Howard Hughes spent years designing the aircraft, and a lifetime waiting for a second opportunity to fly it.
Spruce Goose: Get the inside story of an aviation icon | CNN
WEBJan 20, 2014 · More than 66 years after it first flew, Howard Hughes' gigantic, wooden H-4 Hercules -- nicknamed the Spruce Goose -- still has one of the widest wingspans of any airplane: 320 feet.
The First and Last Flight of the Spruce Goose
WEBThe brilliant, eccentric aviator Howard Hughes in the cockpit of his mammoth transport plane. But in the summer of 1942, after the Germans sank 681 Allied ships in the first seven months of the year, the idea of flying boats captured the nation’s imagination.
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