When We Were Young With Our Corvettes - Chapter #22(complete)
When I was early discharged from active duty in the Army to return to college, I was reassigned to Army Reserve status to complete my obligation. Then when I came to California, the Army eventually moved me to inactive status, but left me with an active Army Reserve Identification Card that had not yet expired. This proved to be useful on more than one occasion.
Originally conceived by Henry J. Kaiser, a steel maker and builder of Liberty ships during WWII (automobiles later), the Hercules was designed and built by Howard Hughes and his staff as a military cargo seaplane. The Spruce Goose30 feet longer than a football field
its one and only flight
Jack is still sleeping.
Just what was I supposed to do? Listen, I helped out as much as I could.
EPILOG
In 1980, the Hercules was acquired by the California Aero Club, who eventually put the plane on display in a large, circular dome adjacent to the Queen Mary exhibit on the Long Beach oceanfront. In 1988, the Walt Disney Company acquired both attractions and the associated real estate and notified the club that it no longer wanted to display the seaplane. After a long search, the club finally awarded custody of Hercules to the Evergreen Aviation Museum. In 1992 under direction of the museum staff, Hercules was wrapped in plastic and moved by barge to McMinnville, OR (just outside Portland) where it sat outdoors in the elements for several years while its permanent home, where it now resides, was built.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5EnbYL0F-k
Not that there is anything wrong with that so my wife keeps saying. 
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