Erik wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:
Hmmm. I considered that but wasn't sure whether it would fly - I
guess my thinking was rather wooden. Ahem.


Didn't it fly for about 120' or something?

It actually flew for over a mile. Hughes kept the plane maintained at
"flight ready" status for over 33 years - at a cost of about one million
dollars a year:

http://www.sprucegoose.org/aircraft_.../exhibits.html

I've been to the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville Oregon and have,
like many visitors, been able to walk around inside the Spruce Goose (or at
least a small part of it). The Evergreen museum is nice in that they have
both the fastest plane there (the Blackbird - and at the time I visited
they had a similarly designed drone vehicle) and the largest (Spruce
Goose). I'd recommend it for anyone visiting Oregon.

Oh yeah - the thing I didn't think would "fly" was my inclusion of the
Spruce Goose under "Planes named after plants". The plane obviously flew
fine. :-)