Some of aviation’s ghosts are more famous than others. The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, is the home of the Howard Hughes H-4. Hughes dubbed the behemoth wooden airplane The Hercules, but most people know it as ‘the Spruce Goose,’ a pejorative name allegedly bestowed by a senator who objected to the cost of the aircraft. Hughes detested the name—possibly due in part because the aircraft is constructed primarily of birch.
Oregon Museum Using Ghosts to Teach Aviation History
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