On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes built and piloted the world's largest airplane, the 200-ton flying boat Spruce Goose, on its ...

On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the “Spruce Goose,” on its one and only flight; a ...

She sought to provide readers with the answer to a seemingly simple question: Where do the birds go? That work formed the beginnings of Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering ...

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 plane almost 75 years ago.

The largest seaplane, the largest wooden aircraft, and the largest propeller plane ever built, flew only once, in 1947.

Note: These sites make up the East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership’s Flyway Site Network, which aims to protect migratory waterbirds along the flyway. They were selected for supporting ...

I got to visit the flight deck of the H4 and even sit in ... The Hughes H4 Hercules is probably better known as the “Spruce Goose” despite it mostly being made out of birch.

“I think if echolocation wasn’t such a limited sensory modality, we couldn’t reach a conclusion about the bats using ...

Harding's win over James Cox. In 1947, Howard Hughes built and piloted the world's largest airplane, the 200-ton flying boat Spruce Goose, on its only flight, at Long Beach, Calif. The Goose ...