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Nov. 2, 1947: Spruce Goose ... Or an Expensive Turkey?

Posted November 02, 2011 7:42 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

Conceived as a wartime necessity, in the end Howard Hughes' gargantuan cargo plane looks more like an enormous vanity project.

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phoenix911 Guru Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 23647 Good Answers: 420	#1 Re: Nov. 2, 1947: Spruce Goose ... Or an Expensive Turkey? 11/02/2011 8:55 AM
	An excerpt: When the government cut off funding and began investigating Hughes for misappropriation of funds involving this and another project, he plowed $7 million of his own into the H-4. Would an MBA do this type of risk today? Its the difference of how much you believe in yourself. As far as the investigation, he just pissed off some political piss ants. __________________ “ When people get what they want, they are often surprised when they get what they deserve " - James Wood
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U V Guru Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: East of Seattle, Washington state Republic of the 50 states of America Posts: 2045 Good Answers: 36	#2 Re: Nov. 2, 1947: Spruce Goose ... Or an Expensive Turkey? 11/07/2011 1:08 AM
	I expected better of wired. They only scratched the surface of the issues and put a sensationalist title on it. __________________ (Larrabee's Law) Half of everything you hear in a classroom is crap. Education is figuring out which half is which.
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