Bring Home a Hughes H-4 Hercules Model Airplane that Never Fails to Mesmerize Everyone

Warplanes brings and introduces you a finely handcrafted Hughes H-4 Hercules model airplane made of the finest grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Our highly skilled master craftsmen painstakingly and passionately worked on the Hughes H-4 Hercules model airplane's details, ensuring exactness and precision based on the original airplane.

The H-4 Hercules model airplane's paint scheme and markings are extremely accurate and precise, depicting the original Hughes airplane. Like all other airplane models, the H-4 Hercules model plane comes complete with fuselage, wings, and other intricate parts. It also comes with a sturdy, durable base with a chrome steel support mounting rod or you can have our variable pitch wall mount accessory, allowing your H-4 Hercules model plane to be displayed either hanging on the wall or the ceiling for an added effect. This top-quality H-4 Hercules model plane will surely be appreciated by anyone who receives this elegant desktop display as a gift.

Hughes H-4 Hercules History:

The HK-1 (H-4) Spruce Goose or Hercules, manufactured by Hughes Aircrafts, is a cargo-type flying boat aircraft. It had its first and only flight for just over a mile, on November 2, 1947. This trial was simple vindication from the detractors of the program and it is now looked back upon as a great moment in flight history.

The Hercules is the largest flying boat ever built, and has the largest wingspan and height of any aircraft in history. The engineers of the said airplane incorporated eight of the most powerful engines ever, 3,000-horsepower Pratt and Whitney radial reciprocating engines with 17-foot diameter props. To feed the engines, they created a mammoth fuel storage and delivery system. The entire airframe and surface structures are composed of laminated wood (primarily birch, not spruce). Birch was chosen because testing proved it light, strong, and resistant to splitting, dry rot and deterioration. All primary control surfaces, except the flaps, are fabric covered. The aircraft's hull is divided into two areas: a flight deck for the operating crew and a large cargo hold.

The H-4 was put into storage and carefully preserved, until after Howard Robard Hughes death in April of 1976. On February 27, 1993 the Hughes Flying Boat, commonly known as the Spruce Goose, arrived in McMinnville marking the end of the 1,055 mile, 138 day odyssey from Long Beach. It survives, in good condition, and became an exciting tourist attraction, at the Evergreen Aviation Museum. The popular Spruce Goose is now appropriately regarded as a true American icon.