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SPRUCE GOOSE Howard Hughes’ 800-ton, 210-foot-long flying boat with an eight story-tall tail section, nicknamed the “Spruce Goose” glides over the water in this photo in Long Beach, Calif. The aircraft cost the government $18 million and Hughes several times that amount. It flew only once at 70-feet for just about a mile. Hughes’ co-pilot, David Grant, a hydraulic engineer, did not have a pilot’s license
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