Spruce Goose To gain the needed expertise in designing and building such an aircraft, Kaiser went into partnership with Howard Hughes, who was already famous for his exploits in aviation ...
Despite being built for war, the Spruce Goose never found a place in the modern world and flew for the first and last time ...
The aircraft was originally conceived by shipbuilder ... Owen Brewster of Maine nicknamed it the “Spruce Goose,” saying “The Spruce Goose is a flying lumberyard and will never fly.” ...