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Aviation History: The Spruce Goose’s Only Flight

In November 1947 Howard Hughes lifted the largest aeroplane ever built off the water at Long Beach, with reporters on board who expected only a taxi test. A B2 retelling of the wooden giant the world called the Spruce Goose, with a sequencing exercise.

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