Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Nov. 3, 1947, reporting that Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" had had a short flight. On Nov. 2 ...
The H-4 Hercules, or "Spruce Goose," was an ambitious wooden "flying boat" designed by Howard Hughes during WWII to transport large cargo and troops across oceans, avoiding U-boat threats. Its ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On November 2, 1947, Howard Hughes built and piloted the world's largest airplane, the 200-ton flying boat Spruce Goose, on its ...