Anybody for a 1/3 rd scale spruce goose powered by eight rotary engines.
 It would make a great flying boat motor home where you can take it all
 with you. It should have a 2000 mile range so you can tour
 the Pacific islands in style and comfort. Probably room
 for a small car and motor boat.

 Carbon fiber will improve the empty weight to gross weight
 ratio improving the range.


 Length: 218 ft 8 in (66.65 m)
 Wingspan: 320 ft 11 in (97.54 m)
 Height: 79 ft 4 in (24.18 m)

 Fuselage height: 30 ft (9.1 m)

 Loaded weight: 400,000 lb (180,000 kg)
 Powerplant: 8 × Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines,
 4,000 hp (2,640 kW) each

 Propellers: four-bladed Hamilton Standard, prop, 1 per engine
 Propeller diameter: 17 ft 2 in (5.23 m)

 Performance

 Cruise speed: 250 mph (407.98 km/h)
 Range: 3,000 mi (4,800 km)
 Service ceiling: 20,900 ft (6,370 m)

 Paul Lamar

 Paul,
 Err . . . Those specs you included. 320 ft wingspan. I hope that isn't
 the model. It's hard to envision a wingspan consuming more than three
 football fields in length. LOL
 jd

 Come on John a foot ball field is only a hundred yards.

 300 feet. About the same as the wing span of the spruces goose.

 You did go over to Long Beach when it was next to the Queen Mary?

 Most of these pictures were taken in the McMinnville Or museum where it
 is now.

 Paul Lamar



Interesting that IMG_0357.JPG shows three engines on the port side and
four on the starboard side.

-  Mark LaPierre

There all there. You have to wear your glasses Mark :)

I have a big poster of that too but not scanned yet.

Down in Ft Lauderdale Fl some people spend a hundred million on
yachts. I think we could come up with the money to build this.
We just need to ask the right people :)

Paul Lamar

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