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 ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — It was only airborne for one minute, skimming just 70 feet above the water on a fall day in 1947 before billionaire Howard Hughes landed the world’s largest plane forever. The ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose, a gigantic historic wooden airplane whose fate was mired in a financial dispute, will permanently stay in Oregon. California attorney Robert E. Lyon, who ...

The legendary wooden seaplane arrived in pieces in Oregon in 1993. The aircraft was restored and reassembled as the centerpiece of a new museum in McMinnville. Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum held ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Nearly a decade after it was disassembled, the world’s largest wooden airplane has gotten its wings back. The Spruce Goose--designed by billionaire eccentric Howard Hughes--will be ...

LOVELAND, Colo.—It may be only a fraction of the real thing, but building a model of Howard Hughes’ monstrous “Spruce Goose” aircraft was a mammoth task—a challenge Loveland’s Jeff Allen-Young was ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore.--I'm sitting in the pilot's seat of the "Spruce Goose," Howard Hughes' famous World War II-era wood behemoth of an airplane, and it's much to the chagrin of the tourists one level ...

McMINNVILLE, Ore. — Most tourists traveling through this town in the heart of Oregon’s wine country opted for the cellar instead of the hangar, bypassing the Spruce Goose, the world’s largest aircraft ...

A thousand miles from home, the world’s largest flying boat may have won the respect that has eluded it for more than half a century. The Spruce Goose, the epic aircraft created by industrialist ...

President Reagan declared Thursday night that either the United States pays “a modest price now” to prevent Central America from turning Marxist, or the nation risks a future “explosion of violence ...