stepwilk :
I don't think the term 'Spruce Goose' was meant to be demeaning and I certainly didn't mean it that way.
The topic came up in conversation recently around the dinner table at a social gathering of about 10 people, mostly in aviation and all pretty bright, two of them US Americans, and only 2 of us thought it ever flew, the others were convinced it never got off the ground (or water). You may move in more enlightened circles than I do!