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ritics dubbed Howard Hughes’s H-4 Her-

cules troop-transport plane the Spruce

Goose, but the White Elephant might have

been more apt. The bloated wooden air-

plane, commissioned by the U.S.government to fly

tanks and 700 soldiers high above enemy fire over

the Atlantic Ocean, cost US$23-million – about

US$265-million in today’s dollars. The wartime ra-

tioning of steel and aluminum meant Hughes, the

eccentric movie tycoon and industrialist behind

Hughes Aircraft, used plastic-impregnated birch to

build the plane that sported eight engines and a

wingspan that stretched almost 100 metres – a

span unmatched by any plane since. But by the

time it was finished in 1946, the plane’s master-

mind had quit, the war was over and U.S. law-

makers had no interest in an overbudget, behind-

schedule seaplane that might actually fall apart in

flight. A defiant Hughes defended his project be-

fore a Senate committee investigating the waste of

taxpayers’ money, declaring, “If it’s a failure, I’ll

probably leave this country and never come back.”

Instead, he surprised onlookers on this day in 1947

by piloting the Spruce Goose to a brief first – and

only – flight on the waters off Long Beach, Calif.

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NOV. 2, 1947

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