“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 ...

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 ...

McMINNVILLE - It was only airborne for one minute, skimming just 70 feet above the water on a fall day in 1947 before billionaire Howard Hughes landed the world's largest plane forever. The Spruce ...

MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (KPTV) - The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville is celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Spruce Goose. The largest wooden aircraft ever built - also known as the ...

MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — At 320 feet, from wingtip to wingtip, the Spruce Goose would fill up an entire football field between the end zones. It was the largest sea plane ever built, a record that stood ...

Dwarfed beneath the wing of Howard Hughes' fabled flying boat, the Spruce Goose, museum guide Dick Paridee exuberantly lists its leviathan specs as a clutch of rapt visitors listen in. "It has a ...

The National Air and Space Museum acquires the Hughes Flying Boat, HK-1, "Spruce Goose," from the U.S. General Services Administration. The museum decided to retain a 51-foot wing section and return ...

Howard Hughes' fabled Spruce Goose a star attraction at Oregon flight museum McMINNVILLE, Ore.— Dwarfed beneath the wing of Howard Hughes' fabled flying boat the Spruce Goose, museum guide Dick ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — Dwarfed beneath the wing of Howard Hughes' fabled flying boat, the Spruce Goose, museum guide Dick Paridee exuberantly lists its leviathan specs as a clutch of rapt visitors listen ...