|> Well, as a 32 year old French, I am clear handicaped here !
|> I bet that many other tweeters don't know this story either.
|>
|> Could you tell us more about the Spruce Goose ?

The Spruce Goose is a very large all-wooden flying boat (a bit bigger
than a 747, wing span 319 ft 11 in, length 218 ft 8 in, weight 213 tons),
built by the late Howard Hughes, billionaire and recluse, founder of
Hughes Aircraft and owner of Transworld Airlines, at a cost of $40 million
in 1947.
It flew exactly once, on Nov 2, 1947, a distance of a thousand yards at 70
ft above the water, with H.H. at the controls. It is now on display in
Long Beach, California.

Daan Sandee sandee at cmns.think.com
Mountain View, CA 94041