The Spruce Goose is the name commonly given to the US Hughes H-4 Hercules, an aircraft designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft company that was the largest flying boat, and one of the largest aircraft, ever built. The Spruce Goose is the worlds largest aircraft by wingspan and is also the worlds largest wooden plane. The popular Spruce Goose is now appropriately regarded as a true American icon. The Spruce Goose is still the biggest aircraft ever built and was decades ahead of its time in the early 1940s. The Spruce Goose is now on display in McMinnville, Oregon near the Oregon wine country.
Hughes and the Spruce Goose
Howard Hughes directed the building of the wooden plane and piloted the airplane on its maiden and only flight in November 1947. Hughes did not like the name Hercules, nor did he appreciate the phrase Spruce Goose. Hughes and his team accomplished all of this working with “non-essential” materials, building a wood aircraft, mostly birch not spruce, that even many of his colleagues dismissed as impossible. Hughes invested seven million dollars of his own into the project to keep it going. After flying the plane, Hughes had proved the...
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