This distinctive aircraft was among the first airliners to be pressurized and make the transcontinental flight with ...

Hughes piloted the brief test flight of this enormous craft in 1947, lifting it a short distance above the water but ...

Howard Hughes Holdings focuses on master-planned communities, having divested non-core assets like South Street Seaport and ...

The aircraft was originally conceived by shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and it was designed and built by billionaire Howard Hughes and his Hughes Aircraft Company. Because of Kaiser’s initial ...

Spruce Goose To gain the needed expertise in designing and building such an aircraft, Kaiser went into partnership with Howard Hughes, who was already famous for his exploits in aviation ...

Why? I got to visit the flight deck of the H4 and even sit in the pilots seat where Howard Hughes sat when he flew the plane almost 75 years ago. It was later in the tour, after I’d had a moment ...

The plane, roughly the size of a Boeing 737 but ... Though sizeable, the AG600 is dwarfed by the famous flying boat of billionaire Howard Hughes. Getty Images Howard Hughes atop the Spruce Goose ...

Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through his efforts, Hughes created a billion dollar enterprise, and more importantly, ...

It flew just once, for under a minute, in 1947. It was once owned by filmmaker and pilot Howard Hughes, who also helped design the plane. Now, the hangar where the Spruce Goose was kept for over ...