In the world of aviation, Howard Hughes is known for such films as Hell's Angels and Jet Pilot, the H-4 Hercules flying boat (better known by its derisive nickname, the "Spruce Goose"), helicopters ...

McMINNVILLE — The Hughes Flying Boat, aka the Spruce Goose, is arguably the most famous aircraft in the world despite flying just once. The flight logbook, in a display case inside the belly of the ...

Some historic aircraft seem like a barrel for holding superlatives. One of these, the H-4 Hercules, goes one better because it's also at the center of one of the strangest stories involving possibly ...

The aeronautical vision of Howard Hughes continues to beguile us. Robert Bernier The H-1 Racer was developed to be the fastest landplane in the world, but it also had an impact on the design of ...

Before he was a famous recluse -- codeine-addicted and obsessive-compulsive -- tycoon Howard Hughes was a record-breaking pilot, a moviemaker and playboy. Hughes is the subject of a new film, The ...

Of all the defense plants spotted around the U.S., few have been more tightly cloaked in secrecy than the Hughes Aircraft Co.’s sprawling (74 acres) layouts at Los Angeles, Culver City, Calif., and ...