McMINNVILLE — The Hughes Flying Boat, aka the Spruce Goose, is arguably the most famous aircraft in the world despite flying just once. The flight logbook, in a display case inside the belly of the ...

Bremont’s latest aviation tribute watch, the limited-edition H-4 Hercules, commemorates its namesake wooden aircraft, popularly dubbed Spruce Goose, built in the 1940s. The massive plane—constructed ...

Once a cavernous workspace for Howard Hughes’ sprawling Hercules plane, Google’s Spruce Goose hangar is now a modern canvas for the tech company’s ambitious push into Los Angeles. But its former role ...

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 ...

Industrialist, record-setting aviator, movie mogul, recluse — Howard Hughes was one of America's most accomplished and mysterious figures. When contracted in the '40s to build a military transport ...

Bob McCaffery had an outsized role in helping to preserve a piece of Howard Hughes’ legacy. Somewhere between directing movies and becoming an eccentric recluse hiding out in Las Vegas, Hughes built a ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: 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 ...

The Los Angeles home of Howard Hughes’ 200-ton Hercules H-4 plane, better known as the Spruce Goose, was recently sold to Japanese investors. Ratkovich Co and Penwood Real Estate Investment Management ...

Bizarre Rehash of “Spruce Goose” History May Mean Stratolaunch Only Flew Once. In what seems like an event bizarrely reminiscent of the single flight of the failed Hughes H-4 Hercules, or “Spruce ...

The Howard Hughes-piloted Spruce Goose has two extremely famous, often-retold facts about it, and neither is the interesting tidbit that Leonardo DiCaprio flew a fictional version of it, on film at ...

The former Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista is up for sale. Tenant Google Inc. plans to renovate the 251 The former Spruce Goose hangar in Playa Vista is up for sale, along with the opportunity to ...

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 ...