[Covenantor]

Great link!

Here's the photo of scale models of the Hugh's "Spruce Goose" and the Douglas DC-3.

Somewhere there is a video of the filmed flight of the "Spruce Goose". The film gives you no sense of the true size of this behemoth as there is no familiar object against which to compare it. And it's made of wood!

[Tailback]

My father, (RIP) was fishing off the docks in Long Beach Harbor the day the “Spruce Goose” was taken out by Howard Hughes. My Grandfather worked for Hughes Aircraft, and his wife my Grandmother worked for Douglas and built DC-3’s all the way up to DC-10’s right before she retired.

I can’t imagine the changes they witnessed during their lifetimes. From sharecropping in Mississippi to machining parts for the moon landing.