- Today on Bing- November 2, 2022
75th anniversary of the 'Spruce Goose'
Today we're looking back to a time when an eccentric billionaire's dream of reaching new heights was still a novel idea. It was 75 years ago today that Howard Hughes' 'flying boat,' dubbed the 'Spruce Goose,' made its one and only flight. Officially named the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the press persisted in calling it the 'Spruce Goose' even though it was constructed almost entirely of birch wood. The plane was commissioned in 1942 by American industrialist Henry Kaiser, who supplied ships to the US during World War II. Kaiser recruited Hughes—the film producer turn…..Read more The Largest Wooden Airplane Ever Built. The Spruce Goose was first conceived during World War II, when German submarines were sinking hundreds of Allied ships, and there was a growing need …
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Aug 28, 2020 · What was the Spruce Goose? At the time, the Spruce Goose plane had the biggest wingspan in the world, at 320 ft 11 in (97.82 m). It was a flying …
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The 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 aircraft made only one brief flight, on November 2, 1947, and the project never …
Wikipedia · Text under CC-BY-SA license- Manufacturer: Hughes Aircraft
- Number built: 1
- First flight: November 2, 1947
- Produced: 1947
- Development of the Spruce Goose cost a phenomenal $23 million and took so long that the war had ended by the time of its completion in 1946. The aircraft had many detractors, and Congress demanded that Hughes prove the plane airworthy. On November 2, 1947, Hughes obliged, taking the H-4 prototype out into Long Beach Harbor, CA for an unannounced fl...
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Wednesday, November 2, 2022
the Spruce Goose
I visited this Spruce Goose when it was in Oregon Near Portand. I'm not sure where it is right now. However, if it is still in one piece it is an amazing thing. we were able to pay as a family to go up into the cockpit then (at least 10 years ago or more) and visit it near McKinleyville then in an Air and Space Museum when it was open there near a Water Slide place. (Not sure where it is now though). At that time two of my daughters and my son all lived in Portland. It is an amazing piece of flying machinery that only flew one time in Long Beach Harbor where I used to sail a lot with my cousin and his family.
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