U.S.A.: BILLIONAIRE HOWARD HUGHES' PLYWOOD AIRPLANE, THE SPRUCE GOOSE, REMAINS MYSTERY IN ITS WATERFRONT WAREHOUSE.
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U.S.A.: BILLIONAIRE HOWARD HUGHES' PLYWOOD AIRPLANE, THE SPRUCE GOOSE, REMAINS MYSTERY IN ITS WATERFRONT WAREHOUSE.
- Title: U.S.A.: BILLIONAIRE HOWARD HUGHES' PLYWOOD AIRPLANE, THE SPRUCE GOOSE, REMAINS MYSTERY IN ITS WATERFRONT WAREHOUSE.
- Date: 7th August 1975
- Summary: 1. GV (B & W) Aircraft in flight over sea) 0.06 2. CU Howard Hughes flying aircraft 0.10 3. GV Howard Hughes flying aircraft (6 shots) 0.34 4. GV Aircraft stationary 0.38 5. GVs Warehouse where plane is kept (3 shots) 0.56 6. GV Queen Mary PAN TO coastline 1.05 7. GV PAN FROM Warehouse TO Glomar Explorer 1.14 TRANSCRIPT: DALE: "The reason Hughes flew the plane back then was to prove that it worked. He built it to be a Transatlantic troop carrier for World War Two. The war was over by the time the plane was finished, and Congress bulked at buying the plywood monster. Some even scoffed that it would never fly much ??? be of any use to the armed forces. So Hughes literally flew in the face of the cynics. Spruce Goose was bigger than a 747, at least twice the size of anything that had ever flown before, The Government bought the prototype but never did anything with it. And later he leased the plane back for eight hundred dollars a year. Then he move it to a pier at Long Beach where he built a big grey warehouse around it. For the last fourteen years this is where the Spruce Goose has ???, at a cost to Hughes of 100,000 dollars a year to lease the pier. Long beach threatened to ??? the lease. ARCO wants to ??? a super tanker port here. There was talk of cutting the Spruce Goose into five parts for different museums. There would be plenty of rood at Long Beach next to the Queen Mary but the Harbour Commission has granted a lease extension of at least one year at the present site. There it's likely to stay a bigger over them. ....Hughes' vaunted spy ship the Glomar Explorer which is anchored just a couple of hundred yards away. Kenneth Dale, Long Beach, California." Initials BB/0135 DSD/PN/BB/0205 This film is serviced with an English commentary by Kenneth Dale. REPORTER: KENNETH DALE TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 21st August 1975 13:00
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- Location: LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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- Country: USA
- Reuters ID: LVA6CHK21F7CWFFML8K744Y2JE2M
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