The Story Behind Howard Hughes’ Spruce Goose

Evergreen Aviation, McMinnville, Oregon

Here’s a door of a different kind that you can find in the history books filed under aviation. Howard Hughes, or the Spruce Goose.

The net on the interior of the door was used to keep the beach balls in the plane. The idea of the beach balls was to create buoyancy, and also they be used for flotation.

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