PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Spruce Goose flew November 2, 1947 — 70 years ago — the only time the largest airplane ever built took flight. Officially the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the Spruce Goose now ...

1947: The Spruce Goose, with Hollywood producer-aviator-tycoon Howard Hughes at the controls, makes its first – and only – flight, skimming the waters of Long Beach Harbor in California for roughly ...

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 front page of the Deseret News on Nov. 3, 1947, reporting that Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" had had a short flight. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives.

It was November 2, 1947, and five years after the project to create the world's largest airplane began, the Hughes H-4, known to almost everyone else as the 'Spruce Goose,' lept off the surface of the ...

Nov. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1889, North and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states of the union. In 1920, in the first significant news broadcast, KDKA in Pittsburgh reported the ...

For this session in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, I’ll be attempting to fly Howard Hughes’ giant H-4 Hercules. Constructed almost entirely out of wood, it was for a long time the largest airplane ...

Rochester Lourdes tennis player Lauren Patterson was the runner-up in the singles division of the Class A state championship. This year the Post-Bulletin cruise will be a 13-day trip to Alaska, ...

For every legendary airplane like the F-16 Viper or Il-2 Shturmovik that sees large-scale production, history is littered with dozens of promising projects that burned through budgets and deadlines ...

Howard Hughes’ H-4 Hercules, better known as the Spruce Goose, is the centerpiece of the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in Yamhill County. The museum wants a state grant to preserve the thousands ...