The day they took the Spruce Goose out of
the Hughes hangar for the first time in thirty years.
It floats. It was really smoggy in LA in those days.
Herman the German crane expropriated from Nazi
Germany is just behind it.
-- 
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

I toured the SG about a long time ago. The insulation on the wires was
beginning to peel. What I could see of the engines (not much) looked
like they would never run again. At least not without a MAJOR rebuild.
Probably rusted out.

So sad to see such a creation go to waste.

Politics. Bah!

Doc Custer
Retired software engineer and sometime Audiologist
Building RV9-A. Fuselage



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