Evergreen Aviation, McMinnville, Oregon
Here’s a door of a different kind that you can find in the history books filed under aviation. Howard Hughes, or the Spruce Goose.
“The Spruce Goose was first conceived during World War II, when German submarines were sinking hundreds of Allied ships, and there was a growing need to move troops and materials across the Atlantic Ocean. Henry Kaiser conceived the idea of a massive flying transport and turned to Howard Hughes to design and build it. Hughes took on the task, made even more challenging by the government’s restrictions on materials critical to the war effort, such as steel and aluminum. Six times larger than any aircraft of its time, the Spruce Goose, also known as the Hughes Flying Boat, is made entirely of wood and flew just one time on November 2, 1947, in Long Beach, California“. To read more: click here
The net on the interior of the door was used to keep the beach balls in the plane. The idea of the beach balls was to create buoyancy, and also they be used for flotation.
The airplane is so big I couldn’t get a good photo. But, I did get the information panel and I hope you enjoy reading about this “flying boat”.
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Have a great day 🙂
Alice
