The woodenboat forum is sponsored by woodenboat publications, publisher of woodenboat magazine. the forum is a free service, and much like the "free" content on public radio, we hope you will support woodenboat by subscribing to this fabulous magazine.. The findings by smithsonian scientists dig up the dynamics of daily life in the first permanent british settlement in the colonies. 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.
