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The Hughes H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during World War II , it was not completed in time to be used in the war.
The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of Hughes Tool Company. [1] The company produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided ...
In 1947, Howard Hughes was summoned to testify before the Senate War Investigating Committee to explain why the H-4 development had been so troubled, and why $22 million had produced only two prototypes of the XF-11. General Elliott Roosevelt and numerous other USAAF officers were also called to testify in hearings that transfixed the nation ...
Hughes H-1 Racer, H-4 Hercules Hughes D-2 Glenn Odekirk ( Waseca, Minnesota May 9, 1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada January 12, 1987) was an American aerospace engineer who made significant contributions to the work of Hughes Aircraft .
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English: An overlay diagram showing four of the largest airplanes ever built against the largest airship, the LZ 129 Hindenburg: the Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose (aircraft with the greatest wingspan); the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the largest fixed-wing aircraft); the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (soon to be the largest version of the Boeing 747 Jumbojet); and the Airbus A380-800 (the largest ...
English: An overlay diagram showing five of the largest airplanes ever built, the Hughes H-4 Spruce Goose (airplane with the greatest height), the Antonov An-225 Mriya (the largest airplane), the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental (the largest version of the Boeing 747 Jumbojet), the Airbus A380-800 (the largest passenger airplane), and the Scaled Composites Stratolaunch (airplane with the greatest ...
Structurally, the P 200 was a scaled-up BV 222 Wiking.It was bigger even than the BV 238, and only the Hughes H-4 Hercules has ever been bigger. [3]Its hull accommodated three deck levels, providing luxury facilities for 120 passengers, with additional freight holds fore and aft.