When you look at the history of aviation, it’s full of quirky and inventive designs. Some worked beautifully, while others ...

Tucked away in Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley sits McMinnville, a town that proves good things really do come in small packages – especially if those packages contain vintage treasures, world-class ...

Speaking of wine, it would be a serious oversight to visit McMinnville without acknowledging its status as the urban hub of ...

Stratolaunch has finally found a use for the world’s largest airplane. Twice in the past five months, the company launched a hypersonic vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, accelerated it to more than five ...

This is the first time anyone in the United States has flown a reusable hypersonic rocket plane since the last flight of the ...

A piece of local aviation history is about to go the way of the Spruce Goose. In a matter of days, a proof-of-concept aircraft known as the Avtek 400A, built in Camarillo in the early 1980s and ...

McMINNVILLE — The Hughes Flying Boat, aka the Spruce Goose, is arguably the most famous aircraft in the world despite flying just once. The flight logbook, in a display case inside the belly of ...

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum held its grand opening on June 6, 2001. McMINNVILLE — The Hughes Flying Boat, aka the Spruce Goose, is arguably the most famous aircraft in the world despite ...

Spruce Goose To gain the needed expertise in designing and building such an aircraft, Kaiser went into partnership with Howard Hughes, who was already famous for his exploits in aviation ...

Harding's win over James Cox. In 1947, Howard Hughes built and piloted the world's largest airplane, the 200-ton flying boat Spruce Goose, on its only flight, at Long Beach, Calif. The Goose ...

The whole ordeal lasted roughly 30 seconds, cost about $25 million, and the Spruce Goose never flew again. “What killed that airplane? It’s 95% wood,” says Evergreen Museum tour guide ...