Goose isn't spruce.

Statemen Journal ^ | 7/24/05 | DENNIS THOMPSON

[aimhigh]

Salem retiree Evelyn Potts, visiting the "Spruce Goose" at the Evergreen Aviation Museum, shook her head in irritation at the name the famous airplane is known by.

"It was birch, not spruce," Potts said, looking the plane over. "It really is birch."

She should know. She ordered the wood the plane is made from, as well as the glue that holds it together.

Potts played an important role in the construction of the Spruce Goose, the enormous wooden aircraft built by millionaire aviator Howard Hughes during World War II.

[aimhigh]

Another newspaper error?

[kingu]

It was called the Spruce Goose by mocking editorial writers, which Hughes took and named the plane as a method of thumbing his nose at them. It is birch; kinda miss it being in Long Beach, CA.

[Oztrich Boy]

And Cruise Shipo don't sail the oceans (They don't even steam them theses days) - but what ya gonna do?

Salem retiree Evelyn Potts, visiting the "Spruce Goose" at the Evergreen Aviation Museum, shook her head in irritation

I'll bet Evelyn does that a lot.

[hattend]

"It was birch, not spruce," Potts said, looking the plane over. "It really is birch."

Better a "Spruce Goose" than a "Birch Bitch"

[Khurkris]

I used to make little canoes out of birch bark when I was a young peckerwood roaming the woods.

Hmm...Birch Bird...kinda has a ring to it...

[SunkenCiv]

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[Little Ray]

The birch bustard?

[SunkenCiv]

oldie, probably a dead link:

Looking Back:
The "Flying Lumberyard"
by Greg Mone

Like the Pelican, the H-4 was built to carry troops and weapons long distances... Because aluminum was being rationed, Kaiser and Hughes built their behemoth from wood (mostly birch, not spruce). Government support for the H-4 began to wane after the war... Hughes persisted (by then he and Kaiser had gone their separate ways), investing millions of his own in the project. Not long after the Spruce Goose's 1947 debut, though, government funding dried up and it became an instant relic, never to fly again.