The Spruce Goose's specifications included ... with the idea to work with the famous plane designer Howard Hughes to create the largest aircraft ever built. Dubbed the HK-1, it could carry up ...

Despite only flying once in 1947, the Spruce Goose remains a symbol of the US aviation industry's ambition and is preserved in the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. Howard Hughes was a central ...

The Hughes H4 Hercules is probably better known as the “Spruce Goose” despite ... Not just for the aircraft, but it would have been a death blow to the reputation of Howard Hughes himself ...

McMINNVILLE, OR -- Howard Hughes’ famous H-4 Hercules flying boat - most commonly known as the "Spruce Goose" - has called McMinnville’s Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum home since 1993.

Howard Hughes, the famous aviator, was to test a new prototype aircraft, that he'd won a military contract for. Things didn't ...

And it was during this tour that my life as an aviation geek changed forever. Why? I got to visit the flight deck of the H4 and even sit in the pilots seat where Howard Hughes sat when he flew the ...

As a teenager, Howard Robard Hughes declared ... for Hughes Aviation, as well as running the company. In January 1937, he set a new record for flying from Los Angeles to New York City. One of his ...

Google combined its two LA offices into a historic airplane hangar ... and pilot Howard Hughes, who also helped design the plane. Now, the hangar where the Spruce Goose was kept for over 30 ...

Built by Howard Hughes in 1943 for the construction of the Hercules IV airplane (aka the “Spruce Goose”), the hangar now comprises office, meeting, food service and event spaces, and employee amenity ...