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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Jan 11, 2005
Description:
It flies.
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Jan 11, 2005
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Category:
95, Other Seaplanes
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Don Maxwell - Jan 12,2005
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Frank, the newsreel narration says 'seventy feet' and 'for one mile.' Maybe that's so, but the photographers apparently thought the show was over and were packing up when Hughes dropped the flaps and left the water. This frame is at the beginning of the 'flying' film clip, and the Goose appears to be descending slightly. But I've never seen a photo of it higher than this. <br /><br />Two-thirds of its 320 ft wing span would be, um, more than 100 feet, for ground-effect altitude.<br /><br />It had 24,000 hp for a gross weight of--what?--the specs vary. 200,000 lbs? That's 8.3 lbs/hp. 300,000 lbs? 12.5 lbs/hp.<br /><br />Just for a rough comparison, a 1500 lb seaplane with a 115 hp engine (if there is such a thing) would have 13.04 lbs/hp.<br /><br />And a 1370 lb SeaRey with an 80 hp Rotax 912 would have 17.125 lbs/hp. <br /><br />The History Channel has an interesting audio recording apparently made during that 'Goose' flight: <a href="http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_346.ram">http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ra_archive/speech_346<br>.ram</a><br /><br />The web page it's on is at <a href="http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_346.html">http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_346.ht<br>ml</a><br />
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Jeff Arnold - Jan 12,2005
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Don, really enjoyed the audio recording. Thanks. Something that large flying at 80 mph must have looked like it was just hovering there. That would have been a sight!
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Robert Lee - Jan 13,2005
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The movie was very good. All pilots should go see it.
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Bruce Bennett - Jan 13,2005
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Robert, the only thing I didn't like was the bronze lipstick that Leonardo Decaprio was wearing in the first few parts of the movie. I know actors wear make-up, but only to make a person look more natural, not made up........other than that it was a very good movie! Judy B.
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Chet Tims - Jan 13,2005
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I can't remember where I heard it, but I was listening to a radio talk-show where someone had written a book either about HH or the Goose -- he ( the author ) was saying that there was not supposed to be a liftoff during this run, but HH did it anyway. He also said that since it was only supposed to be a taxi test on the step, that there were some engineers on board near the tail cone, who started screamin' bloody murder when their strain gauges back there started registering in the danger zone and that's supposedly one reason that it never flew again....... can't remember the name of the guy, the book nor the show I was listening to......
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Jack Peters - Jan 19,2005
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The book Chet is 'Howard Hughes and his Flying Boat',by Charles Barton, Aero Publishers Inc. Fallbrook, Caliifornia.<br />The XF-11 was interesting in that it had a 22 000 ft single engine ceiling.
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