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#Onthisday in 1947, Howard Hughes embarked on a test - and only - flight of the huge Hughes H-4 Hercules (nicknamed the Spruce Goose) to prove that it, the largest wooden plane ever built, could fly. The prototype now resides on display in the @EvergreenMuseum. #MuseumFromHome This tweet was posted on November 02, 2020.
#Onthisday in 1947, off the coast of San Pedro, California, the #Hughes H-4 #Hercules took off and covered only a mile, at an altitude of 70 feet with Howard #Hughes at the controls. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on November 02, 2018.
He soon dropped the Hercules name in favor of Curtiss and in January 1907, he entered a modified racing motorcycle fitted with the new V-8 aircraft engine at the Winter Speed Carnival in Ormond Beach, Florida. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles This tweet was posted on March 19, 2021.
In 1902, he advertised single-cylinder motorcycles, engines, and casting kits under the brand Hercules, and the next year he was winning races on a powerful new twin-cylinder machine. In 1904, Curtiss made a twin-cylinder Hercules capable of an impressive 5 to 50 miles-per-hour. This tweet was posted on March 19, 2021.
On November 2, 1947, the Hughes H-4 Hercules prototype made its first and only flight off the coast of San Pedro, California, with Howard Hughes at the controls. The enormous aircraft flew for just over a mile at an altitude of 70 feet for one minute. #WingWendesday #SpruceGoose This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
The #Hughes H-4 #Hercules (aka the "Spruce Goose") was one of the largest planes ever constructed, intended as a wartime aircraft to move troops and material across the Atlantic Ocean. The massive flying boat was the largest all-wood airplane built. #AviationEvolutions This tweet was posted on November 02, 2018.
The Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat, also known as the #SpruceGoose, was the largest all-wood airplane built and was designed as an ultra-large, transoceanic military transport for use during World War II. It was intended to transport as many as 750 troops. #WingWendesday This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.
The Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat, known as the “Spruce Goose,” was designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company as an ultra-large, transoceanic military transport for use during WWII. The massive flying boat remains the largest all-wood airplane built. #WingWednesday This tweet was posted on May 05, 2021.
The United States Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco acquired a Lockheed HC-130H Hercules turboprop in 1960. This tweet was posted on February 28, 2016.
📸: photo: Hughes H-4 Hercules; 1947 Gift of Frank A. Norick 2009.015.002 model airplane: Hughes H-4 Hercules; 2002 Made by and gift of Jim Lund 2014.153.018 a e photo: Hughes H-4 Hercules; 1947 Gift of Frank A. Norick 2009.015.003 This tweet was posted on May 05, 2021.
📸: photographs: Hughes H-4 Hercules (Spruce Goose); November 2, 1947 Gift of Frank A. Norick 2016.042.023 2016.042.023 This tweet was posted on December 01, 2021.