Who Likes Aircraft ?

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The man had visions

 

[Richard Cranium]

I saw the Spruce Goose out in Longbeach in 1984 and the thing is silly huge. Those monsterous radial engines look like Cox r/c engines in comparison to the size of the plane.

 

[Slap Stick]

Howard was after every skirt in Hollywood.
The Goose is an engineering marvel but a terrible waste.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Also, he was his own worst enemy by insisting on being a test pilot. ...And not a very good one at that.

 

[super-bee_ski]

I saw the Spruce Goose out in Longbeach in 1984 and the thing is silly huge. Those monsterous radial engines look like Cox r/c engines in comparison to the size of the plane.

The Strato-Launcher here at Mojave Airport is bigger than the Spruce Goose

 

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[Richard Cranium]

The Strato-Launcher here at Mojave Airport is bigger than the Spruce Goose

But has it flown yet?

 

[The Rebel]

This is pretty cool!

 

[oldbee]

But has it flown yet?

Hopefully it'll fly more than once?!!

 

[Bladecutter]

Also, he was his own worst enemy by insisting on being a test pilot. ...And not a very good one at that.

Cmon RC. He dropped 3 planes, one during filming of Hell's Angels, the H-1 racer( dead stick bellied into a beet field)because He ran out of fuel, & the XF-11 due to failure of counter rotating props. So He dropped one bird due to oversight, didn't do it irreperable damage & walked away with a ruined pair of shoes. Belly ins in aircraft are as common as fender benders in cars(by capita). I have helped to pull 15 airplanes off the runway at a single airport in two years, usually pilot error, forgetting to put the gear down. A test pilot pushes the envelope in new aircraft to find the limits, the achille's heels. **** ******* happens. But for all the hours He flew, a major portion in untested new equipment, losing 3 ain't bad. He set lots of speed & endurance records. Somebody here called the Hercules a waste,,,bullshit,,,,,,,He simply proved He could do it, in spite of the feds hindering Him @ every step, not letting him purchase alloys, so He & His engineers made it happen with a material His antagonists thought wouldn't work(plywood) & He paid for it. Flying magazine @ one time celebrated Him as one of the 51 Heroes of aviation, ranking Him 25th.
America's first billionaire & the globalists hated Him becaise they couldn't pidgeon hole & control Him. Yeah, He started on Family money, but He took it & exponentiated it & brought to fruition many visions. A Great many contributions to the progress of aviation. Didn't just make a lot of dough by solely financial investments,,,wall street wasn't His thing,,, tangible, useful things were His bag.
Back to the Spruce Goose being called a waste,,, proving ones self ain't a waste....proving the Sheer Talent of those Who worked with Him ain't a waste. Toyota, with Hamilton Standard & Cirrus aircraft worked a project in concert a few years back with Toyota footing the expense. Cirrus is a current production composite airplane, 4 place, all glass panel, a big seller & they ain't cheap, starting at over a 1/2 mil. Toyota wanted to certify in aviation the UZFE 4.0 liter, 4 cam hemi V8(the motor like i got for my bug)after achieving great success with that block in IRL. Cirrus was the platform. The team of the 3 companies did it, full FAA cerification for production. Then Toyota shelved it all. A waste?? Not by my bible....they proved a liquid cooled automobile engine to be a viable, reliable aviation application for volume production.
If You were a pilot with a few thousand hours to Your credit, maybe i would have taken Your statement of Hughes's inadequacy as a pilot in different stride, but You aren't, therefore i think it a very wreckless statement....You don't know how ******* busy it can get up there at times.

 

[Slap Stick]

It is a waste. Being unused.
And liquid cooled engines were proven as viable aircraft engines decades ago. Remember the aluminum Buick 340? And there are Chevy V8s being used.
Yes, the goose is a marvel and he proved it could be done. After that it is being wasted. Like having a Hemi B body and keeping it covered in the garage.

 

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Jim Wright ...http://offbeatoregon.com/1207sp-heroic-final-flight-of-jim-wright-howard-hughes-racer-plane.html

 

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