Man, Moment, Machine — Season 1, Episode 9: Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 27 episodes
Episode synopsis
Howard Hughes takes on the challenge to build an enormous flying boat capable of airlifting 750 troops and war materiel as heavy as tanks across the Atlantic Ocean in support of the Allied war effort, thus avoiding the threat of German U-boats. The project becomes the focus of Hughes OCD. Even after the project is canceled by the military his company successfully builds and Hughes personally flies the prototype dubbed by its detractors as the spruce goose.
About Man, Moment, Machine
Man, Moment, Machine was a television series which aired on The History Channel and was hosted by Hunter Ellis. It documented an important event in history and went into detail about, as the title suggests, the man and his background, the machine and how it was made, and the outcome.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Hunting Bonnie and Clyde
- E2The Great Sub Rescue
- E3Doolittle's Daring Raid
- E4Stormin' Norman and the Abrams Tank
- E5Shot Down: The U-2 Spyplane
- E6Mine Rescue Mask
- E7Wernher von Braun and the V2 Rocket
- E8Thomas Edison and the Electric Chair
- E10Ultimate Weapon: Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb.
- E11The Higgins Landing Craft
- E12Dambuster: WWII's Bouncing Bomb
- E1325,000 Miles Non-Stop: Voyager Spacecraft