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Richard Wood helped design and
build Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose," a legendary airplane. A native
of Oxford, Nebraska, Wood earned a degree in aeronautical engineering in
California, then moved back to Nebraska to learn to fly. After a stint with
the Boeing company in Wichita, Kansas he moved to Hughes Aircraft in southern
California in 1947. Wood served as a stress analyst on the Spruce Goose, the
world's largest airplane. The need for the huge cargo plane disappeared with
World War II's end. But Hughes continued work on the plane and piloted its
one brief test flight in November 1947. |
