This installment of Randy's Warbird Profiles takes a look at the legendary Hughes H-4 Hercules - better known ... In 1942, an order was issued by the U.S. War Department for a large troop ...

The H-4 Hercules was never mass-produced, but its test flight made headlines globally. Howard Hughes spent years defending the project before Congress. Its story reflects the tension between ...

which was in short supply during the war, it was made from a novel composite called Duramold. Duramold was invented some years earlier and licensed to Hughes for the Hercules project. Duramold was ...