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Jeffrey_Button · Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:33 am Post subject: anther wierd plane to identify

Do any of yall know what type of plane this is?

SFC_Jeff_Button

Or better yet, where and when this might have been taken?

XcalibeR · ***Power User*** Offline Joined: Mar 11, 2005 Posts: 358

hmm... That's a tricky one... though I think I can figure it out. I think it may be, just a guess, the Spruce Goose. Wink

The Spruce Goose is a very famous plane, it's the only one of it's type. It's the largest aircraft ever built. and only ever flew once. It was supposed to be a cargo aircraft during WWII, but it didnt' fly until 1947, and therefore was more of a concept aircraft than anything. It's now housed at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.

And just to show you how big it is:

Spruce Goose
- Wingspan: 319' 11"
- Length: 218' 8"
- Height: 79' 4"

Airbus A380
- Wingspan: 261' 10"
- Length: 238' 8"
- Height: 79'

Boeing 747-400
- Wingspan: 211' 5"
- Length: 231' 10"
- Height: 63' 8"

Boeing 777
- Wingspan: 199' 11"
- Length: 242' 4"
- Height: 60' 9"

Sabre45

- SFC_Jeff_Button

Or better yet, where and when this might have been taken?

Los Angles Harbor, 1947, very close to the one day Mr. H. pulled it off the water and proved that it could really fly.

NS38th_Aristaeus

The Hughes H-4 Hercules.
Spruce Goose is a name given the plane by reporters which H.H. despised.

SFC_Jeff_Button

After my son posted this I told him it would be easy to identify because it was the only one of its time. Then I pointed out the name at the bottom of the picture and he got embarrassed, haha.

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