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  1. 21st May 2009, 02:52 PM #1
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    Spruce Goose

    Today I fulfilled what I always thought would be an impossible dream!

    I saw and went inside the Spruce Goose. If you've never seen it it, it is so difficult to imagine just how big this wooden aircraft is.

    Imagine an aircraft as big as the A380 and made out of wood!

    'Twas brilliant!

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    Quote Originally Posted by p38arover View Post
    Today I fulfilled what I always thought would be an impossible dream!

    I saw and went inside the Spruce Goose. If you've never seen it it, it is so difficult to imagine just how big this wooden aircraft is.

    Imagine an aircraft as big as the A380 and made out of wood!

    'Twas brilliant!

    Thats a fascinating plane. I've often heard of it, but I didn't realise it was that big!

    Howard Hughes, the man behind it, was a tragic figure. He had everything, but died a paranoid recluse.

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  3. 21st May 2009, 03:08 PM #3
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    The museum has a sheet of paper showing the A380 and the H4 silhouettes overlaid. The H4 is ruddy big!
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  4. 21st May 2009, 03:11 PM #4
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    Willem, you are right about Hughes being a tragic figure.
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    Did it ever fly?

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    Yes, see the pic above! About 1 mile at 70 ft altitude, then Hughes mothballed it.
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    Thats right.. only flew once

    how nuts is that!
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    I've actually got howard hughes' biography at home and read it may years ago. Howard designed a couple of interesting aircraft, a couple of which nearly killed him!!

    The XF-11 is one that comes to mind.

    I'd love to go and see the Spruce Goose in the flesh one day. one of the few things in the US that interest me enough to want to travel there.
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    G'day All, Ron come on you know the no pix it didn't happen LOL ya lucky bugger, 'did you get any pix? cheers Dennis
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