It was November 2, 1947, and five years after the project to create the world's largest airplane began, the Hughes H-4, known to almost everyone else as the 'Spruce Goose,' lept off the surface of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Microsoft is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the venerable Flight Simulator series today with the launch of the aptly named ...

For every legendary airplane like the F-16 Viper or Il-2 Shturmovik that sees large-scale production, history is littered with dozens of promising projects that burned through budgets and deadlines ...

If you think Howard Hughes’ plane the Spruce Goose is big (it is, it really is), then try this on for size: more than 1 million pieces of paper — documents, blueprints, original drawings and thousands ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on Nov. 3, 1947, reporting that Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" had had a short flight. Editor’s ...

MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — At 320 feet, from wingtip to wingtip, the Spruce Goose would fill up an entire football field between the end zones. It was the largest sea plane ever built, a record that stood ...

Nov. 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1889, North and South Dakota became the 39th and 40th states of the union. In 1920, in the first significant news broadcast, KDKA in Pittsburgh reported the ...

Microsoft is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the venerable Flight Simulator series today with the launch of the aptly named Microsoft Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary update. As the company had ...