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Date:      05 Nov 2002 13:58:28 -0800
From:      swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        jgrosch@mooseriver.com
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Geoff Morrison <geoffcm@uclink.berkeley.edu>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: -current marcketting name?
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> I don't know, Terry. IIRC the Spruce Goose never flew.

From
http://www.sprucegoose.org/spruceGoose.t?request=A%20Brief%20History

   On November 2, 1947, Howard Hughes and a small engineering crew fired
   up the R-4360s for taxi tests and thrilled thousands of on-lookers
   with an unannounced flight. With Howard Hughes at the controls, the
   Flying Boat lifted 70 feet off the water, and flew one mile in less
   than a minute at a top speed of 80 miles per hour before making a
   perfect landing.

In 1992-3, it was barged up to it's current home at an Aero-museum
about 35 miles SW of Portland, OR.  See http://www.sprucegoose.org

There's another, larger, Aero-museum an hour or so further
west in Tillimook, OR, on the wonderful Oregon Coast.  See
http://www.nastillamook.org/index.htm

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