In California, designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes" id="mwjw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Howard Hughes">Howard Hughes</a> performs the maiden (and only) flight of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules" id="mwkA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hughes H-4 Hercules">Hughes H-4 Hercules</a> (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch" id="mwkQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Scaled Composites Stratolaunch">Stratolaunch</a> in May 2017.<sup about="#mwt90" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_2#cite_note-16" id="mwkg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwkw">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt87" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFMcDonald1981">McDonald, John J. (1981). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/howardhughesspru0000mcdo" id="mwCGA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCGE">Howard Hughes and the Spruce Goose</i></a>. TAB Books. p.<span id="mwCGI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>80. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCGM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCGQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/0830623205" id="mwCGU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/0830623205"><bdi id="mwCGY">0830623205</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt87" class="Z3988" id="mwCGc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Howard+Hughes+and+the+Spruce+Goose&amp;rft.pages=80&amp;rft.pub=TAB+Books&amp;rft.date=1981&amp;rft.isbn=0830623205&amp;rft.aulast=McDonald&amp;rft.aufirst=John+J.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhowardhughesspru0000mcdo&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANovember+2"></span></span>