72 years ago today...

Mark Sampson · **Joined:** Tue Jan 25, 2011 3:02 pm **Posts:** 304

The Hughes HK-1 (Spruce Goose) made its first and only flight.
Wouldn't we all like to see it fly one more time?

exhaustgases · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:26 pm **Posts:** 239

Yeah but this time go up a few thousand feet.
I'd still like to see how they attached engines that weigh as much as a good size car to wooden wings. And then take the torque and thrust.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

exhaustgases wrote:

I'd still like to see how they attached engines that weigh as much as a good size car to wooden wings. And then take the torque and thrust.

Probably using the same engineering principles employed to support the engines on the DeHavilland Mosquito.

Michel Lemieux · **Posted:** Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:36 pm

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:49 pm

Nice! 4-meter wingspan makes it about 1/24 or 1/25 scale, right?
Slow the video down to .5 and it looks amazingly real in many shots... or play it double speed and imagine the hundreds of tiny troops on board simultaneously getting airsick :mrgreen:

old iron · **Posted:** Mon Nov 04, 2019 4:56 pm

Appears that the thrust-to-weight ratio is not to scale.

bdk · **Joined:** Sun May 02, 2004 1:16 am **Posts:** 11330

old iron wrote:

Appears that the thrust-to-weight ratio is not to scale.

Yeah, but I'll bet it does better loops!

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