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THE GOOSE FLEW FOR FIRST TIME IN 1947

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The Hughes Flying Boat—at one time the largest aircraft ever built—
was piloted by designer
Howard Hughes on its first and only flight.

Built with laminated birch and spruce (hence the nickname the
Spruce Goose) the massive wooden aircraft had a wingspan
longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than
700 men to battle.

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Howard Robard Hughes Jr.
(December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)

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Today the Spruce Goose remains in good condition and is on display in McMinnville, Oregon at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.

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OPPOSITE OUTCOME ON THIS DAY IN 1948

President Harry Truman holds up a copy of the Chicago Daily Tribune declaring his defeat to Thomas Dewey in the presidential election, in St. Louis, Missouri, November 1948.  

In one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history,
Democratic incumbent
Harry S. Truman defeats his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by just
over two million popular votes. In the days preceding the vote,
political analysts and polls were so behind Dewey that on
election night, long before all the votes were counted, the
Chicago Tribune published an early edition with the banner
headline
DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN (above).”

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Rare Truman Defeats Dewey Newspaper.

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