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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.
[5] [6]: 163, 259 He spent the rest of the 1930s and much of the 1940s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer (1935) and the gigantic H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose, 1947), the largest flying boat in history with the longest wingspan of any aircraft from the time it was built until 2019.
The company produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules aircraft, the atmospheric entry probe carried by the Galileo spacecraft, and the AIM-4 Falcon guided missile. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Hughes Aircraft was founded to build Hughes' H-1 Racer world speed record aircraft, and it later modified other aircraft for his transcontinental and global circumnavigation speed ...
Aircraft records. 1 language. ... Hughes Aircraft Co H-4 Hercules: 1948 1,540 km/h (957 mph) USA Charles Yeager Bell X-1 March 26, 1948 19,507 m (64,000 ft) USA
Odekirk co-designed the H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the Spruce Goose) and many sources [which?] state that Odekirk was aboard when Hughes piloted the plane on its only flight on November 2, 1947. However, according to The Ouderkerk Family Saga: 350 Years in America, [2] Glenn Odekirk was not on the Hercules. Odekirk recalled that day: "I ...
Heaviest until the B-52, longest and widest until the Hughes H-4: Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose) 2 Nov 1947: Flying boat: 1: 72.94 yards (66.70 meters) 106.95 yards (97.80 meters) 177.15 tons: Longest until the Lockheed C-5 Galaxy and widest until the Stratolaunch Convair XC-99: 23 Nov 1947: Transport: 1: 60.80 yards (55.60 meters) 76.66 ...
By early 1944, Hughes was suffering from mental strain from the demands of managing both the F-11 and Hughes H-4 Hercules projects, and had become withdrawn. Warned that the USAAF was considering canceling the F-11 due to a lack of progress, Hughes hired Charles Perrell, former vice president of production at Consolidated Vultee , to manage the ...
November 2 – With Howard Hughes at the controls, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the "Spruce Goose," makes its first flight, traveling at 135 mph (217 km/h) for about a mile (1.6 km) at an altitude of 70 feet (21 meters) over Long Beach Harbor in California with 32 people on board.