Hughes H-4 Hercules: Inside The Largest Aircraft Ever Built That Could’ve Changed History!
Designed by Howard Hughes himself, and ridiculed as the "Spruce Goose" for its size and the material it was built out of, the Hughes H-4 Hercules should have had a long and storied service life. Yet it never took off as it was expected...
As the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (only the LZ 129 Hindenburg airship from the famed Hindenburg disaster is bigger), the H-4 was a behemoth for its time, and indeed in our own, being far larger than anything built before or after it.
So why did it go from one of the most anticipated aircraft of the 1940's to something relegated to the pages of history in less than a decade?
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Pre-Hughes H-4 Hercules
Having supplied the Allies (mainly Britain) with supplies since 194...
