How Howard Hughes built a 320-foot wooden flying boat, silenced Congress with a single 26-second flight, and created the most ambitious aircraft ever constructed.
TaildraggerThe 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.
TaildraggerThe story of the Lockheed Constellation, the triple-tailed airliner Howard Hughes ordered in secret to fly higher and faster than anything in the sky.
TaildraggerOn November 2, 1947, Howard Hughes flew the wooden Spruce Goose one mile over Long Beach Harbor, proving critics wrong.
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.
TaildraggerThe story of the Lockheed Constellation, the triple-tailed airliner Howard Hughes ordered in secret and Kelly Johnson shaped into a legend.
TaildraggerThe Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes' all-wood flying boat, flew once for under a minute in 1947 and now lives in McMinnville, Oregon.
TaildraggerThe Lockheed Constellation was Howard Hughes's triple-tail airliner that shrank America and the Atlantic before jets ended its reign.
TaildraggerHow Howard Hughes's H-1 Racer set the 1935 landplane speed record and returned to Oshkosh decades later as an award-winning replica.
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 Lockheed Constellation revolutionized transatlantic travel with its pressurized cabin, 300+ mph cruise speed, and unmistakable triple-tail silhouette - and a design story that's as compelling as the aircraft itself.
TaildraggerThe Spruce Goose flew just 26 seconds on November 2, 1947 - here's the story of Howard Hughes' birch-built H-4 Hercules.
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