McMINNVILLE — The Hughes Flying Boat, aka the Spruce Goose, is arguably the most famous aircraft in the world despite flying just once. The flight logbook, in a display case inside the belly of the ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore.--I'm sitting in the pilot's seat of the "Spruce Goose," Howard Hughes' famous World War II-era wood behemoth of an airplane, and it's much to the chagrin of the tourists one level ...

For every legendary airplane like the F-16 Viper or Il-2 Shturmovik that sees large-scale production, history is littered with dozens of promising projects that burned through budgets and deadlines ...

The Spruce Goose – the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the Hughes Flying Boat – is the most famous military aircraft never used. Conceived during World War II by dashing entrepreneur Howard Hughes, it was the ...

Most people with a passing interest in aviation know the general contours of the Spruce Goose story: Built by the eccentric Hollywood filmmaker and respected engineer Howard Hughes, the colossal ...

“Spruce Goose,” the 200-ton, eight-story-tall flying boat belonging to millionaire Howard Hughes, is shown during the one time it ever flew, Nov. 2, 1947. It is seen traveling 33 feet above the ...

Howard Hughes bought 380 acres of land at the foot of the Westchester Bluffs for $500,000 in 1940, when he was 34 years old. He wanted the sizable chunk of land for his aviation firm, Hughes Aircraft ...

Bremont’s latest aviation tribute watch, the limited-edition H-4 Hercules, commemorates its namesake wooden aircraft, popularly dubbed Spruce Goose, built in the 1940s. The massive plane—constructed ...

As any general will tell you, winning a war is about logistics: getting the stuff to the fight. During World War II, the United States needed to get tons of war material and millions of men and women ...

Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose – more formally known as the H-4 Hercules – was until 13 April this year the largest aircraft ever to have flown. Conceived as a WWII transatlantic troop carrier, the ...