European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stripes Magazine this it Monitor seaplane called a Borcuta goom by a Walt by Howard at control of hit Behemoth ancestor of the cd transport t the monstrosity that almost never flew i Conception of what the cd to be worlds target May look a Shade my faster and lot More but the pro Pond new cd military transport win find it Baa a country Coutts from Days by in the Howard colossus pret Dent Johnsons announcement of Lana for the development of the huge Carlls cargo expert  ugly tics system recalled an earlier report to create a giant in during the Early Daya of world War u the United War Effort waa plagued by enemy prowling shipping lanes of tons of vital cargo to the Bottom of the by wiu1am up staff writer tartar Dolny preliminary wort have revealed but be uck Beed and Doallas do Jagm All nil Lor a plane thai dwarfs la Days Belg 7t7 Welch capacity capacity Miles mles thrust january 1965 Industrial list Henry Kaiser proposed two plans to combat the problem a Squadron of Large cargo planes and a Fleet of baby aircraft the government approved kaisers proposal and the industrially sought one of the Moil productive Aero nautical minds of the to Hughes fell the lob of developing the largest and most revolutionary air Craft the government allocated tin million for the pit Tance compared to the 1750 million aside for the it a Challenge to Hughes that was both to captivate and frustrate him in the years to when he announced specification for Behemoth the project criticized on Many the Hercules was duh hed the monstrosity that will never envisioned a giant capable of hauling More than lion uni Inch of cured Ond i inc enough to accommodate 750 fully equipped infantrymen it would he powered by eight 3  encinos and cruise at an estimated 179 in hour with Miles in hour its lop handicapped by government orders to build the Croft from plywood because of a ban on use of str Lecic Hughes Bonn monumental before the protect was Well under the government determined the flying boat no longer the baby flattops had solved the submarine prob Lem and the Hercules was regarded As somewhat of a White by Hughes pleaded with the government to continue the project and offered to assume All costs Over the 118 million originally the government agreed and Hughes was to spend More than si7 million of his own Money before the Hercules was ready to As news reports of the Progress filtered the giant plane of Wood be came known As the Spruce in the huge fuselage and Wing sections were transferred from Hughes Culver Plant to near by Long reach it took two Days for the 28mile junket and scores of for la Highway patrolmen were required to control traffic and cordon of spectators As the monstrosity made its Way to the on less than a week after notation tests to determine if the wooden Hull leaked and nearly six months before he was to to Fly the Hughes succumbed to am the plane scheduled to make taxi runs across the As the great in shirt sleeves at the controls lifted the monstrosity that would never Fly from the 1 didst decide to take it off until i actually did Hughes told newsmen after the flight it Felt so Good 1 the stars and stripes just took it the Landing was really Hughes took the Craft Only 70 feet in the air and set it Down on the Choppy water after about a he didst know my but the plane he cap1 an adventure in aeronautics would never Fly clashes with the government Over the project a government War contract investigation criticized the project Hughes  keep the project the Spruce Goose if in it remains cloistered in a hangar on the forgotten relic v he past a fashioned like a huge Cra holds the Mammoth fuselage off the the curious Are kept away by Hughes aircraft officials have become tight lipped about the one Hughes official claimed in that the plane was still airworthy and la in shape to several years flood Waters were diverted to the area and the rising water pushed the plane up against the hangar now the Spruce larger than any of our modern let will be eclipsed by the the new monstrosity will Fly at 550 Miles on hour with up to and a cargo capacity of it will weigh some pounds and develop pounds of thrust from its six Jet and although Hughes still expects is aeronautical adventure to the cd appears to have doomed to the aircraft oblivion that la 11