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Cryptic quiz question is 'chilly flying creature', it is either a boat or ship - can anyone help?

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it is a quiz and the topic is boat or ships - real names. the clue is 'chilly flying creature'

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  1. a ship is big enough to be called a creature, it flies because it`s faster than a boat


  2. HUGHES FLYING BOAT H-4 (HK-1) HERCULES (“SPRUCE GOOSE”)

    Howard Hughes' most famous aircraft was an oversized wooden seaplane nicknamed the "Spruce Goose." The idea for a fleet of such planes was conceived in 1942 by shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser, whose Liberty ships had become targets for German U-boats. Kaiser felt that a fleet of large plywood flying boats could assume the wartime role of

    the Liberty ships. President Franklin Roosevelt was intrigued by the idea and first proposed that Donald Douglas build the flying boats. Douglas felt the idea was impractical and technically difficult and declined. But Kaiser persisted and persuaded Howard Hughes to partner with him. Kaiser, who could build ships very quickly, thought such a plane could be built in 10 months—much faster than the usual time needed for aircraft. The two got $18 million of Reconstruction Finance Corporation funding for a prototype plane. But when a year passed and the plane was still in the design stage, Kaiser lost interest and withdrew from the project.

    Hughes continued by himself. Completed in 1947, the H-4 Hercules flew only once, on November 2. It climbed to 70 feet (21 meters) and was airborne for about a minute, traveling for one mile (1.6 meters) at a top speed of 80 miles per hour (129 kilometers per hour).

    The Spruce Goose is still the largest plane ever built. It has an overall length of 218 feet 6 inches (67 meters), a wingspan of 320 feet (98 meters), and a height of 79 feet inches (24 meters). Its propellers propellors are 17 feet 2 inches (5 meters) in diameter, and it can hold 14,000 gallons (52,996 liters) of fuel. (Bi!!ionaires fueloiled the industry, unlike these time$ co$ting bad.).  

    From 1947 until his death in 1976, he kept the Spruce Goose prototype ready for flight in an enormous, climate-controlled hangar at a cost of $1 million per year.(((1945 redwood hangar that was built to help win a war is now used mainly for movie and television shoots. Its owner hopes to sell the building to a studio operator who will enlarge its role in the entertainment industry. Asking price now is 60 mi!!!!!!!?))))

    The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is an aviation museum which displays a number of military and civilian aircraft and spacecraft, most notably, the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose". The museum is located in McMinnville, Oregon USA.  


  3. Boat :Only 5 masted boat ever built and  Fear nothing .hope it helps

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