from Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose to Alexander Lippisch's Aerodyne; there are plenty of strange aircraft designs that took to the skies. Typically, a new design element is created to fill a niche ...

Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded aircraft manufacturing operation. Through his efforts, Hughes created a billion dollar enterprise, and more importantly, ...

In 1939, Howard Hughes, who was among many things ... which had originally been designed as a twin-tail aircraft but reworked to a three-tail design and was to be powered by four Pratt & Whitney ...