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Nov 17, 2011

Ray Hopper and Dave Grant, Spruce Goose Designers Interview

Ray Hopper and Dave Grant were designers and engineers of the Howard Hughes flying boat Spruce Goose. Here is an interview of them in 6 parts.

[Sorry to say but as of 2014 the videos have been deleted in YouTube .. as so many other videos there .. but that original film might be somewhere archived if you search TV film archives in the USA. Below is a small snippet of it which I could find.]



Some pictures about the Howard Hughes HK-1 (H-4) Hercules ("Spruce Goose").






REFERENCES

/1/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules

/2/ http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19791105&id=lNYzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dOsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3058,1725498

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