Howard Hughes’s H-4 Hercules is the largest amphibian aircraft, and the largest wooden aircraft ever built. And for 72 years up until 2019, it had the largest wingspan of any airplane. It truly is a marvel of engineering and a beast of a machine. The first and very last time it ever flew was on November 2nd, 1947 when Howard Hughes shocked the world by unveiling the gargantuan airship that the press had scoffed by saying it could never even nicknamed it “The Spruce Goose“, despite the fact that it was made of Birch wood. Be sure to visit the H-4 Hercules at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon, USA. They are wonderful people and the docents are very knowledgeable about the aircraft and spacecraft/machinery.
Check out my narrated tour of the H-4 Hercules!
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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introducing the H-4
0:40 A Big Idea
3:41 The Goose’s Design
7:24 The Hercules Emerges
9:40 H-4 Makes History
13:20 The Next Chapter
15:47 A New Home
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Drone footage credit to Dronesphere:
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Much of the information I learned about the H-4 Hercules came from my private tour of the aircraft at the Evergreen Aviation Museum. We were able to speak with one of the docents at our leisure and because we were the last of the private groups, we had extra time to pick his brain on information about the airplane (and extra time to film footage). I kept note of the information, and when I needed to corroborate some of the facts I chose these sources:
Boeing Historic Snapshot of H-4 Hercules:
“The Spruce Goose” LA Almanac:
I normally do not rely on Wikipedia, however for a recap of basic information I had already learned, I used their page about the Hercules:
More information was corroborated from a video by Megaprojects:
More information was corroborated from a video by Today I Found Out:
More information was corroborated from a video by Airbaja:
More information about the transport of the plane to Evergreen Aviation Museum in Oregon was corroborated from a video by Peter Dibble:
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