The Spruce Goose flew just one mile for 26 seconds in 1947, yet still holds the record for the longest wingspan of any aircraft ever flown.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores A Legend Reborn, Catalina Aircraft and the Return of a World War Two Flying Boat Name.
TowerHow motorcycle racer Glenn Curtiss became the 'Fastest Man on Earth,' invented the flying boat, and gave the U.S. Navy its first aircraft.
TaildraggerThe story of Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, the wooden flying boat that flew just once in 1947 and outlived every critic.
TaildraggerHow Howard Hughes flew the Spruce Goose one mile off Long Beach in 1947 to prove his critics wrong.
TaildraggerRadio Hangar explores Catalina Aircraft's Vero Beach Engineering Center and the Clean-Sheet Part Twenty-Five Amphibian Trying to Bring Back a Legend.
TowerThe Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes' all-wood flying boat, flew once for under a minute in 1947 and now lives in McMinnville, Oregon.
TaildraggerThe Hughes H-4 Hercules holds the record for the largest wingspan of any aircraft ever flown at 320 feet, and has called Oregon's Evergreen Aviation Museum home since 2001.
TaildraggerThe Curtiss NC-4 crossed the North Atlantic in May 1919 - eight years before Lindbergh - carrying six Navy men 1,500 miles by dead reckoning alone.
TaildraggerThe Spruce Goose flew just 26 seconds on November 2, 1947 - here's the story of Howard Hughes' birch-built H-4 Hercules.
TaildraggerOn June 7, 1939, the Dixie Clipper made history as the first scheduled transatlantic passenger flight from New York to Europe.
TaildraggerThe Bermuda Sky Queen's 1947 emergency ocean landing saved 69 lives but was overshadowed by Chuck Yeager breaking the sound barrier the same day.
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