On November 2, 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden airplane, the Spruce Goose, on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California. Built with laminated birch and spruce, the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men to battle. Completed in 1947, it was flown only once and never went into production. It is currently housed in the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
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