Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular ... a look at the legendary Hughes H-4 Hercules - better known as the ...

One of these, the H-4 Hercules, goes one better because ... not in full. Very quickly, Hughes and the Hughes Aircraft company, with characteristic enthusiasm, took over the entire project and ...

Hughes was making the largest airplane to date. A failure of the Hercules, of any nature, would have been disastrous. Not just for the aircraft, but it would have been a death blow to the ...

Specs Spruce Goose Wingspan 320 feet, 11 inches (97.54 meters) Length 218 feet, 8 inches (66.65 meters) The Hughes H-4 ...