Spruce Goose--Howard Hughes
In about 1977 we went to California with friends and visited the museum where the Spruce Goose (Howard Hughes' plane) and The Queen Mary ship were displayed in Long Beach, California. The Spruce Goose has since been moved to McMinnville, Oregon as part of the Evergreen Aviation Museum.
The plane is a huge one but not very spectacular in my opinion. We could walk inside the plane and look around. It was sort of crude and ugly but very big inside. The Spruce Goose made only one flight in its beginning, about a mile in less than a minute. Hughes detected something that made him wary of the plane's safety and decided to set it back down rather than take a big risk. It was never flown again after that.
Howard Hughes was a very strange man. Eccentric is how they describe it and it was believed to have been the result of bipolar disorder or obsessive compulsive disorder.
He was a brilliant man and did many great things: He was a movie director, aviator, plane builder, playboy and an eccentric. He was also one of the richest men in the world. His father founded Hughes tool Company which is how Hughes got his fortune.
Howard Hughes died April 5, 1976 at the age of 70 leaving an estate worth $2 billion. As they said about him; He may have been crazy but he was no fool!
posted by kyra lafain @ 2/03/2009 12:30:00 PM
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That two billion isn't worth much to him now is it. All his brilliance didn't do him much good either if he didn't have a relationship with GOD.
Have you seen the 2004 movie "The Aviator" about Howard Hughes? It's pretty good.
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