Deseret News archives: The 26-second flight of Howard Hughes’ ‘Spruce Goose’
On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the “Spruce Goose,” on its one and only flight; a ...
On This Day, Nov. 2: Spruce Goose makes lone flight
On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes built and piloted the world's largest airplane, the 200-ton flying boat Spruce Goose, on its ...
Why The Spruce Goose Only Flew Once
The largest seaplane, the largest wooden aircraft, and the largest propeller plane ever built, flew only once, in 1947.
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On the Atlantic Flyway, migrating birds make their way south via an invisible flight path
The part of the island to the south of the Plum Island bridge is long and fairly narrow, nestled between the Atlantic Ocean ...
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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.
Bats use echolocation to make mental maps for navigation
“I think if echolocation wasn’t such a limited sensory modality, we couldn’t reach a conclusion about the bats using ...
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Protecting The Hughes H4 Hercules With… Beach Balls?
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.
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Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose Yogi and Friends Signed Production Cel and Master Background (Han... (Total: 2 Items)
13.5 x 10.5 in. (34.3 x 26.7 cm.) ...
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On This Day, Nov. 2: Spruce Goose makes lone flight
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 ...