"Lee Jones who had appeared in some films such as ""Jackson County Jail"" and who Gimbel said ""matches the image the public has of Hughes"". Filming took eight weeks. During filming, Gimbel's company was bought out by EMI Television. Reviews were strong. Part one was the fifth highest-rated show of the week; part two was the highest rated. It was seen by over sixty million people. Universal agreed to distribute the film theatrically outside the US. The film was the original release of EMI Television, an off-shoot of EMI Films. The Amazing Howard Hughes The Amazing Howard Hughes is a"
"Muromets in scale. Then, during World War II, America foresaw a requirement for a large trans-Pacific cargo carrier able to operate from bases with no prepared landing strip. The giant Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat was constructed from timber, earning it the name the ""Spruce Goose"". When finally flown briefly in 1947, its wingspan made it the largest plane ever to fly, and it has never been equalled. It required 8 Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major radial engines to get it into the air. By then, the landplane had taken over long-distance flight and the H-4 - having made"
"(1.6 km). At this altitude the aircraft still experienced ground effect. The brief flight proved to detractors that Hughes' (now unneeded) masterpiece was flight-worthy—thus vindicating the use of government funds. The ""Spruce Goose"", however, never flew again. Its lifting capacity and ceiling were never tested. A full-time crew of 300 workers, all sworn to secrecy, maintained the aircraft in flying condition in a climate-controlled hangar. The company reduced the crew to 50 workers in 1962 and then disbanded it after Hughes' death in 1976. Ownership of the H-4 was disputed by the U.S. government, which had contracted for its construction."
"Hughes H-4 Hercules The Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic flight transport for use during World War II, it was not completed in time to be used in the war. The aircraft made only one brief flight on November 2, 1947, and the project never advanced beyond the single example produced. Built from wood because of wartime restrictions on the use of aluminum and concerns about weight, it was nicknamed by critics the ""Spruce Goose"", although"
"707 proved impossible. The Hughes H-4 Hercules, in development in the U.S. during the war, was even larger than the BV 238 but it did not fly until 1947. The ""Spruce Goose"", as the 180-ton H-4 was nicknamed, was the largest flying boat ever to fly. Carried out during Senate hearings into Hughes use of government funds on its construction, the short hop of about a mile at 70 ft above the water by the ""Flying Lumberyard"" was claimed by Hughes as vindication of his efforts. Cutbacks in expenditure after the war and the disappearance of its intended mission as"
"World War II the company designed and built several prototype aircraft at Hughes Airport. These included the famous Hughes H-4 Hercules, better known by the public's nickname for it, the ""Spruce Goose"", the H-1 racer, D-2, and the XF-11. However the plant's hangars at Hughes Airport, location of present-day Playa Vista in the Westside of Los Angeles, California, were primarily used as a branch plant for the construction of other companies' designs. At the start of the war Hughes Aircraft had only four full-time employees—by the end the number was 80,000. Hughes Aircraft was one of many aerospace and defense"
"to reduce wind resistance. Odekirk co-designed the H-4 Hercules (commonly known as the ""Spruce Goose"") and many sources state that Odekirk was aboard when Hughes piloted the plane on its only flight on November 2, 1947. However, according to ""The Ouderkerk Family Saga: 350 Years in America"", Glenn Odekirk was not on the Hercules. Odekirk recalls that day: ""I dropped Hughes down on the dock and he said to me, 'Odie, you don't mind not being aboard while I taxi' ""...and I said, ""Oh, come on."" ""The fellows back there (the Brewster committee) were giving him a bad time and"
"Forbes"" had 20 corrugated furnaces with a combined grate area of heating five single-ended forced draught boilers with a combined heating surface of that supplied superheated steam at 220 lb/in to a pair of three-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines. Each reciprocating engine had a stroke; the cylinder bores were high pressure, intermediate pressure and low pressure. Steam exhausted from the low-pressure cylinders then drove a pair of low-pressure steam turbines with double reduction gearing and hydraulic couplings to twin propeller shafts. J G Kincaid and Company of Greenock built the four engines, whose combined power was rated at 1,370 NHP. On"
"relive the classic 1950's car cruising on the main drag that took place for decades in small towns. The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville is best known as the home of the ""Spruce Goose"", the world's largest propeller-driven seaplane, built by the famed aviator Howard Hughes. The museum, home to another 80 historic aircraft and exhibits, is a pair of large symmetrical buildings with glass facades, a local landmark which can be seen for miles. Additional major exhibits include a SR-71 ""Blackbird"", a Titan II SLV Missile (with its launch control center), and a Grumman F6F3 ""Hellcat."" There"
"only company permitted to manufacture Rolls-Royce aircraft engines under licence, building Hawk and Falcon engines, major components for the Eagle engine and also 600 Renault 80hp 8Ca engines. Over 1,500 engines were produced in total. The company was one of the first to be brought under Admiralty control, and Fedden and his draughtsman Leonard Butler designed two engines during the war; the 14-cylinder Mercury and the larger, 9-cylinder Jupiter. In 1919 the range consisted of the 450 hp Jupiter, the 300 hp Mercury and the smaller 100 hp Lucifer. On 9 April 1919 a Bristol Scout F fitted with a"
"exhaust manifolds. Fifty-six major parts are interchangeable between the Twin-Six and all other GMC V6 engines to provide greater parts availability and standardization. Its engine displacement was , and while power was not too impressive at , torque was . For firetrucks the rev limiter was increased to produce at 3000 rpm and torque was increased to at 1600–1900 rpm. It was possibly the last gasoline engine used in heavy trucks in the US. Fire apparatus manufacturer Seagrave used two versions of the Pierce Arrow V-12 motor starting in 1935. After Pierce-Arrow ended production in 1938, Seagrave bought the machine"
"of which 76 were built. Rolls-Royce Hawk The Rolls-Royce Hawk was a British aero engine designed by Rolls-Royce in 1915. Derived from one bank of six cylinders of the Rolls-Royce Eagle, it produced 75 horsepower at 1,370 rpm. Power was progressively increased to 91 hp by February 1916, and 105 hp by October 1918. After Rolls-Royce made the prototypes, the Hawk was manufactured under licence by Brazil Straker in Bristol between 1915 and 1918. During this period 204 engines were built, and the Hawk earned a reputation for high reliability. Many engines of this type were used to power the"
"served by a crew of 198. The double bottomed hull was divided into eleven watertight compartments with ten extending to the bottom of the second deck above full load waterline. Twelve Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers provided steam for Parsons turbines on three shafts with a requirement that the 23 knot speed be available with steam from only ten boilers. One high-pressure turbine long with diameter rotor drum with four stages of expansion and two low-pressure turbines, with integrated astern and each long with ahead and astern diameter rotor drums, develop about 25,000 shaft horsepower at 325 revolutions. Four"
"(SFC). In 1945 the single-cylinder test-engine (Ricardo E65) produced the equivalent of 5,000 HP (192 BHP/Litre) when water injected, although the full V12 would probably have been initially type rated at circa . Sir Harry Ricardo, who specified the layout and design goals, felt that a reliable 4,000 HP military rating would be possible. Ricardo was constantly frustrated during the war with Rolls-Royce's (RR) efforts. Hives & RR were very much focused on their Merlin, Griffon then Eagle and finally Whittle's jets, which all had a clearly defined production purpose. Ricardo and Tizard eventually realized that the Crecy would never"
"the field. The drive sprocket was in the front, the idler-wheels were placed in the rear, with two return rollers. Power came in the form of a Henry Meadows 6-cylinder gasoline engine, producing , coupled with a four speed preselector gearbox. Steering was a combination of declutching the drive to one track and braking to increase the turn. The traverse of the turret was electrically actuated. They saw use in training, and were about 5 tonnes, the models had a crew of two and were armed with a Vickers machine gun. The idler wheel was removed, with the bogie wheels"
"and three at the back. Those at the back were removable, leaving an area for haulage. The vehicle had four cylinders, and the motor had a power of 20HP with 1800 revolutions per minute. Thanks to the elasticity of the engine, this was able to be reduced to 200 revolutions. The cost of the car was 300 pounds, half of what a European car of equal power cost. The car was called “Grieve” after its owner, and the plans were patented. The idea was to commercialize the enterprise and build a fleet of 20 more cars. Grieve decided to speak"
"of the two wing propulsion engines when they were switched from propulsion to pumping mode. There are six Byron Jackson four-stage centrifugal pumps mounted in pairs forward of the propulsion system. Each is rated at at , for a total output of . In 1945 the seven Winton propulsion engines were replaced by Hall Scott engines. Two V-12 Hall Scott Defenders drive the outboard screws. A 6-cylinder in-line Hall Scott Invader drives the center screw. The six Byron Jackson four-stage centrifugal pumps, mounted in pairs forward of the propulsion system are driven as follows: Mounting 5 monitor guns, including a"
"wood, and, at , had the longest wingspan of any aircraft (the next largest wingspan was about ). (The Hercules is no longer the longest nor heaviest aircraft ever built; both of those titles are currently held by the Antonov An-225 ""Mriya"".) The Hercules flew only once for one mile (1.6 km), and above the water, with Hughes at the controls, on November 2, 1947. The Hercules was nicknamed the ""Spruce Goose"" by its critics, but it was actually made largely from birch, not spruce, rather than of aluminum, because the contract required that Hughes build the aircraft of ""non-strategic"
"each intersection. The hull was also stiffened by two deep suspension trusses or “hog frames,"" the top chord of which was wide by deep. There were three watertight bulkheads, which reach to the main deck. She had four W. & A. Fletcher Company, steam boilers, of only , running a W. & A. Fletcher Company, single expansion engine that produced . The engine turned two side wheels at an average of 26 revolutions per minute. Each wheel had 12 curved steel buckets that were wide by long that dipped approximately into the water. She was chartered by the US Navy"
"F. Hodge & Company. Samuel F. Hodge retained the presidency until his death. They turned out 125 engines between 1884 and 1899. They built the first triple expansion engine to be used on the Great Lakes. It was placed in the ""Roumania"" on October 2, 1886. Here also was built the engine for Capt. Hoyt, the first of Capt. Alexander Mc Dougall's whaleback steamers built at West Superior. The engine in the whaleback steamer, Westmore, which attracted much attention in Liverpool when she crossed the Atlantic, was a product these shops. The great whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Columbus, employed at"
"twin intakes and exhausts."""". Early multi-valve engines in T-head configuration were the 1917 ""Stutz"" straight-4 and 1919 ""Pierce-Arrow"" straight-6 engines. The standard flathead engines of that day were not very efficient and designers tried to improve engine performance by using multiple valves. The Stutz Motor Company used a modified T-head with 16 valves, twin-spark ignition and aluminium pistons to produce 80 bhp (59 kW) at 2400 rpm from a 360.8 cid (5.8-liter) straight-4 (0.22 bhp per cubic inch). Over 2300 of these powerful early multi-valve engines were built. Stutz not only used them in their famous Bearcat sportscar but in"
"engine. The later engine had a 28"" diameter high pressure (HP) in the centre, with a 33"" IP and 51""LP cylinder. It had a 4 ft stroke and ran at 78rpm. The boiler operated at 170psi. The 22 ft flywheel was mounted at end of shaft, driving 28 ropes. There were Corliss valves on all cylinders. Air pumps were driven from LP and IP crossheads. In 1921 a new 51""LP cylinder was built, the old 21""HP removed and the IP was used for HP. The mule frames were provided by Hetherington and Sons Ltd. There were 76,896 mule spindles spinning"
"production in 1921. [3] In 1919 a new 1.8-litre four-cylinder 11/15 HP model topped the range. It was available for three years. In 1920 the final model was introduced, the Newey 11.9 HP with a 1.6 litre, four-cylinder side-valve engine. Its wheelbase was 2591 mm. After World War I the Newey 12/15 HP was introduced with a 1,750cc Chapuis-Dornier engine. Although most models were available after the First World War, the production numbers were low . Between 1916 and 1919 obtaining engines from France was difficult, so Gordon Newey imported 2.4 litre four-cylinder engines from the United States, possibly from"
"or adapted a number of engines, including one at Wheal Chance operating at above atmospheric pressure, which achieved an efficiency of nearly 50 million, but its efficiency then fell back. A test was carried out between a Trevithick type single-cylinder engine and a Woolf compound engine at Wheal Alfred in 1825, when both achieved a duty of slightly more than 40 million. The next improvement was achieved in the late 1820s by Samuel Grose, who decreased the heat loss by insulating the pipes, cylinders, and boilers of the engines, improving the duty to more than 60 million at Wheal Hope"
"the design as being unable to perform adequately in ""hot and high"" conditions, in light of such issues experienced with the Trident 2E. Since the Spey 512 was the last of the Spey line, extra thrust would be difficult to obtain. Instead of attempting to replace the three engines with a completely different type, which would have been difficult with one engine buried in the tail, 's engineers decided to add a fourth engine in the tail, the tiny Rolls-Royce RB162 turbojet, fed from its own intake behind a pair of movable doors. The engine added 15% more thrust for"
"Two months after the Fury's destruction Porte succumbed suddenly to pulmonary tuberculosis, dying on 22 October 1919, aged 35. Unrealised commercial version of the Fury designed primarily for carrying mail and valuable cargo long distance over sea or 10-12 passengers and three crew with a loaded weight of 28-29,000 lb, 3100 lbs of cargo. Fitted with three Rolls Royce Condor engines in a two tractor and one central pusher configuration - as originally intended for the Fury, two 1000 hp Cosmos Hercules engines or four 450 hp Napier Lion engines in push-pull pairs. The design was similar to Porte's G5"
"(limited to due to gearbox and shaft limitations) for full power and two Bristol Siddeley Proteus 10M (3,500 shp each) for fuel-efficient cruising. These engines drove the single shaft through a common gearbox. The Proteus engines could work alone or together, but could not be run together with the Olympus. As the engines could not run in reverse, a reversible-pitch propeller was installed. As the engines could be controlled directly from throttles on the bridge, bridge steering was fitted. The requisite air intakes and filters were grouped amidships and the turbine uptakes exhausted into a common, streamlined funnel, completely changing"
"were located in two separate engine rooms, three engines side-by-side, together with four 6-cylinder Atlas Polar K56E auxiliary engines producing each. In the refit, the old engines were replaced with six modern 16-cylinder Wärtsilä 16V22 4-stroke medium-speed diesel engines, each producing while coupled to Strömberg alternators rated at 2,700 kVA. Prior to the refit, the propulsion power was fed to four direct current electric motors located in separate engine rooms, two in the stern and two in the bow, through an applied Ward Leonard drive system. The propulsion motors, rated at each, were also produced by Strömberg and were the"
"turbine, the alternator was run up to speed by using its rotor damping winding as a squirrel cage, the stator being fed from another turbo running at reduced speed and voltage. When the rotor had come up to speed, excitation was applied to achieve synchronism. Originally equipped with reciprocating steam engines, during its long life a total of eighteen generating sets were installed and in turn replaced with larger units or scrapped. The final equipment was of fairly typical 1940's design with eight Babcock stoker-fired boilers using the range system, feeding two British Thomson-Houston 34 MW sets and two Richardsons-Westgarth"
"four seater"", coupe and ""enclosed four seater"" versions were initially available joined by the ""All-weather"" in 1924. The cheapest version took the ""11"" name.The sports version now had an output of . In 1925 the Wrigley gearbox was replaced by one of their own manufacture with four speeds and the name changed to the ""11/30"". Four wheel brakes were also made available. The engine changed from overhead cam to pushrod overhead valves in 1926 and the name reverted to the ""10.8"". 1500 ""10.8""s, ""11""s and ""11/30""s are thought to have been made. The final model was the Hawk launched in"
"with two heavy military masts, but these were quickly replaced by lattice masts in 1909. They had a crew of 42 officers and 785 men. The ships were powered by two-shaft triple-expansion steam engines, with steam provided by twelve coal-fired Babcock & Wilcox boilers. The engines were rated at and generated a top speed of . The boilers were trunked into three closely spaced funnels amidships. The first five ships were equipped with eight electricity generators, while ""New Hampshire"" had four of these generators and two units. All of the ships had a combined output of ; this was the"
"helicopter (portrayed by a MD 500) ambushes a U.S. Army AH-1 Cobra during the opening sequence. Also known as the ""Hercules HK-1"" and """"The Spruce Goose"""", this gigantic flying boat has made a number of appearances in fiction. The aircraft was central to the plot of the 1987 ""Hanna-Barbera"" animated film ""Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose"". In the 1988 biopic """", a pivotal meeting between automaker Preston Tucker and Howard Hughes takes place in front of the Hercules, within its hangar, where Hughes briefly tells Tucker that whether the Hercules flies is not the point,"
"Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an aviation museum which displays a number of military and civilian aircraft and spacecraft, most notably, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, popularly known as the ""Spruce Goose"". The museum is located in McMinnville, Oregon, across the street from the former headquarters of Evergreen International Aviation. Oregon Route 18 separates the museum from the company operations and McMinnville Municipal Airport (KMMV). An IMAX theater opened in 2007, and a second exhibit hall focusing on the Titan II ICBM and space technology opened in 2008. First envisioned by Capt. Michael King"