On Nov. 2, 1947, the largest aircraft ever built flew for about a minute for a mile over Long Beach Harbor in California. The Hughes H-4 Hercules, also called the Spruce Goose, was a wooden flying ...

The latter may not be the most polite name, but it was the most accurate because the H-4 was made of birch, not spruce. The fact that what was for a very long time the largest aircraft ever built was ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: Still, in his final decades, Hughes spent exorbitant sums maintaining an aircraft he never attempted to fly again. After his death, Spruce Goose was purchased from ...

On this day in aviation history, 78 years ago (November 2, 1947), the Hughes H-4 Hercules made its first – and only – flight. More commonly known as the Spruce Goose, the H-4 was a prototype flying ...

In 1942 the German Navy was wreaking havoc on Allied shipping to Britain, and convoy duty from the United States to Britain was one of the most dangerous places to be. German U-Boats plied the North ...

The legendary wooden seaplane arrived in pieces in Oregon in 1993. The aircraft was restored and reassembled as the centerpiece of a new museum in McMinnville. Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum held ...

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 ...