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No. In 1913, Curtiss introduced the first commercial flying boat, the Model E. There were regular flights of air boats in the UK starting about 1920. The Spruce Goose didn't come along until the 1940s.
The Spruce Goose was the largest plane to fly. Before the Spruce Goose, pilots adjusted the control surfaces of a plane with their own muscles, but the Spruce Goose was so large that power controls were required. Howard Hughes decided to park the plane without offering any explanation to anyone, apparently being dissatisfied with the performance of the control system - and of course, now we will never know.
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What was the biggest flying boat ever built?
Spruce goose
When he built the Spruce Goose?
Howard Hughes, president of Hughes Aircraft Corporation, flew his plane, The H-4 Hercules nicknamed the Spruce Goose, in 1947. The Hercules (Spruce Goose) is the largest flying boat ever built, and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in history. It survives in good condition at the Evergreem Avoatopm Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
What do these have in common eleventh hour spruce goose blood diamond catch me if you can and titanic?
Except for Spruce Goose, mocking nickname by the American press for the H-4 Hercules flying boat, created and flown by millionaire Howard Hughes, played by Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Aviator, although the airplane was really made of birch instead of spruce. Beautiful airplane, the Spruce Goose.......but that's another story.
Where is Howard Hughes' flying boat the Spruce Goose?
Technically its called the Hercules and its preserved Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum McMinnville Oregon USA Heres a link http://www.sprucegoose.org/
What has the author John J McDonald written?
John J. McDonald has written: 'How to make old-time photos' -- subject(s): Carbon, Photography, Printing processes 'Flying the helicopter' -- subject(s): Helicopters, Piloting 'Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose' -- subject(s): Hughes Flying-boat (Seaplane)
How much a Canada goose weigh?
Males: 7 to 14 lbs. Females: 5 to 12 lbs.
What was the Spruce Goose?
The "Spruce Goose" is the Hughes H-4 Flying Boat, which is one of the largest planes ever made--in wingspan and height it is larger than the Lockheed C-5 and the C-5 is only four feet longer. They designed the plane to use to transport troops to Europe during World War II. During the war, the Nazis' submarine fleet was sinking a lot of troopships. They needed a troopship that couldn't be sunk by a submarine, and the only way to do it was to build one that flies. It was made of wood (actually birch, though spruce was common in aircraft construction) because of the shortage of metal. They flew it once and it would have been really great as far as saving lives during the war, except that they finished it two years after the war ended. Now it's in a museum in Oregon.
A man has a sack of corn a fox and a goose comes to a river the boat can only hold 2 people He cant leave the fox and the goose together and the goose and the corn together how does he get across?
Cross with the goose and leave the goose on the other side. Come back for the corn. Cross with the corn and return with the goose. Leave the goose and take the fox. Cross over and leave the fox with the corn. Come back for the goose and return to the side where the fox and corn are waiting - don't take your eye off the fox or the goose! ---------------------------------- Put them all in the boat including yourself and cross. A sack of corn weighs about 50 lbs. a goose about 10 lbs. a fox about 20 lbs. Since the boat can hold two people, all three things weigh less than a second person that the boat can hold.
What is the biggest airplane built?
largest plane by wingspan the H4 Hercules flying boat,aka the Sproce Goose,has a wingspan of 319ft 11in (97.51m)and a lenghth of 2188in (66.65).It flew just once,on November 2, 1947.
Can you get to America to the UK without flying?
by boat..
How do you get to europe from american without flying?
Boat?
Where is the canon in rainbow ride in super Mario 64 after you talk with the pink bomb?
The cannon is located on the flying boat high in the sky. Once you reach the flying boat the cannon is located at the back of the boat.
