When the United States was fighting in World War II, metals like steel and aluminum were considered strategically important and funneled towards the construction of tanks, aircraft, guns, jeeps, and ...

It's for this reason that the H-4 Hercules is better known to the world as the Spruce Goose, though at the time it was also called the Flying Lumberyard by its critics and the Birch Bitch by Hughes ...

In 1942 the German Navy was wreaking havoc on Allied shipping to Britain, and convoy duty from the United States to Britain was one of the most dangerous places to be. German U-Boats plied the North ...

The world's biggest ever flying boat is so massive that its wingspan is longer than some football pitches, but it only flew once. The Hughes H-4 Hercules (best known by its nickname, the Spruce Goose) ...

Bill Newman, Hughes Aircraft Photographer, Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum Flying Boat Archive Collection ...