"It is the largest aircraft ever built. It is over five stories tall ... reaching a top speed of 117 knots (135 mph, 217 km/h) as it flew for one mile (1.6 km) over 26 seconds.

but only one of those was ever built (though that might change soon). The Spruce Goose was formerly the largest aircraft by wingspan, but it only flew once, and only in ground effect. The ...

Stratolaunch will work with the Military Defense Agency to test systems designed to take out hypersonic weapons.

It has been over three-quarters of a century since the Spruce Goose flew for the ... work with the famous plane designer ...

A Second World War aviator flew a plane which was on fire for 500 miles while trying to put it out with flasks of tea. Wing Commander Clive Beadon was dive-bombing the Burma-Siam railway from just ...