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"The Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat, also known as the “Spruce Goose,” was designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company as an ultra-large, transoceanic military transport for use during World War II. The massive flying boat remains the largest all-wood airplane built. It was intended to transport as many as 750 troops to the European or Pacific theaters and avoid the submarines that were sinking hundreds of transport ships during the war. Despite the "spruce" nicknaming, it was actually constructed primarily of birch due to weight concerns and restrictions on the use of aluminum during the war. Numerous delays prevented it from being completed before the end of the war. Its first and only flight, which lasted only one minute and achieved an altitude of seventy feet, was conducted on November 2, 1947, off the coast of San Pedro, California, with Howard Hughes at the controls, David Grant as copilot, and numerous engineers, flight crew, and representatives from the press on board. If you live in or visit Oregon, be sure to visit the Evergreen Museum to see it in person!" This was posted to our Instagram account on May 05, 2021 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1763559165/

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Billionaire Bill Ackman acquires control of Howard Hughes, launching a Berkshire Hathaway-inspired holding company with plans for diversified investments and potential insurance ventures.
#YonhapInfomax #BillAckman #HowardHughes #HoldingCompany #PershingSquare #BerkshireHathaway #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=61781

March 12, 1951 and it's Howards Hughes' Daring Production at Vintage Edmonton:

http://www.vintageedmonton.com/2025/03/march-12-1951.html

#yeg #edmonton #alberta #1950s #HowardHughes #JaneRussell

Warner Bros. and Sony Drop Rivalry and Join Forces Behind Las Vegas Studio
#Variety #News #HowardHughes #LasVegas #SonyPictures #WarnerBrosDiscovery

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/warner-bros-sony-las-vegas-studio-summerlin-1236321410/

Evergreen Air & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon. The Hughes Hercules H-4, AKA: "Spruce Goose." A diorama showing construction of the plane. Stereoscopic, parallel views.

#Stereoscopic #stereoskopie #3Dfotografie #stéréoscopie #StereoPhoto #StereoPhotography #airplane #aviation #seaplane #SpruceGoose #HowardHughes #McMinnville #Oregon

Stereoscopic, parallel view. A diorama of the construction of the Spruce Goose seaplane. We are inside a recreation of the hanger in which it was built, looking from the front of the plane along the left side. On the right of the image, we can see the ribs of a wing being built.

Evergreen Air & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon. The Hughes Hercules H-4, AKA: "Spruce Goose." The cavernous interior. Stereoscopic, parallel views.

#Stereoscopic #stereoskopie #3Dfotografie #stéréoscopie #StereoPhoto #StereoPhotography #airplane #aviation #seaplane #SpruceGoose #HowardHughes #McMinnville #Oregon

Stereoscopic, parallel view. Interior of an enormous seaplane, looking back toward the tail. It resembles the scene in Pinocchio when Geppetto has been swallowed by Monstro the whale. For some reason, there are a bunch of beach balls in the lower right of the image. Something about buoyancy, I think, but I didn't read the signs very carefully.

Stereoscopic, parallel view. Interior of an enormous seaplane, looking forward toward the prow. Doesn't recede from our view as far as the previous view, as there is a bulwark a few meters back. A set of stairs on the right goes (presumably) to the cockpit.

Evergreen Air & Space Museum, McMinnville, Oregon. The Hughes Hercules H-4, AKA: "Spruce Goose." It's the elephant in the room -- in fact, it could hold several elephants. 3D, parallel views.

#Stereoscopic #stereoskopie #3Dfotografie #stéréoscopie #StereoPhoto #StereoPhotography #airplane #aviation #seaplane #SpruceGoose #HowardHughes #McMinnville #Oregon

Stereoscopic, parallel view. Interior of an air museum, looking at a the underside of the left wing of a very large seaplane which absolutely dwarfs the other exhibits. It has a boat-like body, pontoons coming from below the wing tips, and is painted military grey.

Stereoscopic, parallel view. Interior of an air museum, looking along the right wing of a very large seaplane which absolutely dwarfs the other exhibits. It has a boat-like body, pontoons coming from below the wing tips, and is painted military grey.

Stereoscopic, parallel view. Interior of an air museum, looking at a model of a seaplane. It has a boat-like body, pontoons coming from below the wing tips, is painted a silvery pewter. Perhaps a 1.5 meter wingspan? It is lacking in details to show the overall shape of the plane. It is close in under the body of the actual plane above it.

Pershing Square Capital Management increases acquisition offer for Howard Hughes Holdings to $90 per share, aiming to create a modern Berkshire Hathaway-style conglomerate
#YonhapInfomax #PershingSquare #HowardHughes #BillAckman #AcquisitionOffer #DiversifiedHoldingCompany #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=51340

Mark Wahlberg, Sony and Howard Hughes CEO’s New Vegas Studio Bill Is Prepped for Go
#Business #BusinessNews #Howardhughes #LasVegas #MarkWahlberg #Sony #SonyPicturesEntertainment

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/mark-wahlberg-sony-howard-hughes-ceo-las-vegas-studio-1236136389/

"Cary Grant introduced Howard Hughes to Katharine Hepburn in 1935!" - KARINA LONGWORTH, The Many Loves of Howard Hughes: Katharine Hepburn, 1938, You Must Remember This #YouMustRememberThis #HowardHughes #HappyBirthdayHowardHughes #KarinaLongworth

Hughes XF-11
The Hughes XF-11 was a prototype reconnaissance aircraft designed for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). The program was delayed beyond the end of the Second World War, rendering it surplus to the USAAF needs and it was cancelled. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/hughes-xf-11-reconnaissance-aircraft/ #aerialwarfare #aeroplane #AirForce #Aircraft #airplane #aviation #HowardHughes #HughesXF11 #Military #reconnaissanceaircraft #UnitedStatesAirForce #UnitedStatesArmyAirForces #USAAF #USAF #warfare #XF11 #XF11 #XR11

Hughes Flying Boat Postcards.
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#HowardHughes #SpruceGoose #SeaPlane #avgeek #aviation #planes #airplanes #postcards #Postcard #VintagePostcards #Travel

The plane is in doors and basked in rainbow lite. There is an inset of Howard Hughes

Outside at night at its old home in Long Beach. There are lights litghting it up.

Back in the lat 1940s and trying to take off on the water.

Black and white photo of the plane leave its dock.

"When I Fall in Love" is a popular song, written by #VictorYoung (music) and #EdwardHeyman (lyrics). It was introduced in #HowardHughes' last film #OneMinuteToZero as the instrumental titled "Theme from One Minute to Zero". #JeriSouthern sang on the first vocal recording released in April 1952 with the song's composer, Victor Young, handling the arranging and conducting duties. The song has become a standard, with many artists recording it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PH7wP7DAGU

#OnThisDay, July 7, in 1946, Howard Hughes nearly died when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashed in a Beverly Hills neighborhood (depicted in The Aviator, 2004)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #TheAviator #HowardHughes #Histodons #TodayInHistory

A picture of a plane on a tarmac, labeled "July 7, 1946, XF-11 Test Flight"

A man in a plane cockpit, waiting to take off

"Just your average Monday afternoon joyride gone wrong. Maybe I should stick to designing planes, not flying them. #oops #HowardHughes" - Howard Hughes

Jul 07, 1946 - Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes

Have you ever been in the Spruce Goose, the plane Howard Hughes built? You can do that in the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. You can easily do one or two days there.
https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/

#SpruceGoose
#HowardHughes
#AviationMuseum
#Aviation

Inside Howard Hughes Spruce Goose flying boat/plane

My wife and I sitting in the cockpit of Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose

The 4 engines on one side of Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose plane

4/12/24 — Open 6-9p Mask recommended. No open drinks, please.

New to our Biographies... In '72 Hughes' Corp. built the Glomar Explorer mining/salvage vessel. To build it, a giant crane barge was made by Sun Shipbuilding. It was all a CIA cover, to recover a wrecked Soviet sub. That crane, the Chesapeake 1000, still works today at the MV Dali-shipwrecked Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, MD.

#BonnettsBooks #DaytonOhio #VintagePaperbacks #HowardHughes
@bookstodon @mastodonbooks

A composite image of 2 paperback books, side by side.

On the left:
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD. "The Real HOWARD HUGHES Story: His Life and Death 1905-1976" by NELSON C. MADDEN.
A bold red tabloid-style banner holds the white-lettered title above a small black and white bust portrait photo of Hughes.

On the right:
A CLOSEUP VIEW OF THE WORLD'S RICHEST RECLUSE.
"I CAUGHT FLIES FOR HOWARD HUGHES – THE FIRST INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE BIZARRE BILLIONAIRE" BY RON KISTLER, A PERSONAL AIDE TO HUGHES FOR THREE YEARS.
A close-up illustration of a greying bearded man's face with a fly on his nose, eyes crossed to see the bug, a look of manic annoyance on his face.

I just watched Hell's Angels (Howard Hughes, 1930) and rated it 6/10 ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s_Angels_%28film%29?wprov=sfla1 #films #cinema #cinemastodon #HellsAngels #HowardHughes #JeanHarlow

2024: book sixteen (audiobook four). #books #bookstodon #karinalongworth #howardhughes #audiobook

Audiobook cover for "Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood" by Karina Longworth, featuring the silhouettes of a man, a vintage airplane, and two women in different poses.

The more I think about it, the more it seems that Elon #Musk is going the way of eccentric aerospace zillionaire #HowardHughes!

‘One of the most influential and richest people in the world, Hughes first became prominent as a film producer…Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain…and increasing deafness”

Sound familiar?
#Billionaires #tesla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes

#howardhughes

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