Magazines, Newspapers: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
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Magazines & Newspapers
1970
- Feb. 22 — Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, “Plane Will ‘Fly’ Again — As Sleek Water Bug”
1971
- Aug. 7 —Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, “Hughes’ Luxury Plane Unrecognizable”
- Aug. 16 — Associated Press, ”Hughes’ ‘Toy’, From Plane To Boat”
1972
- April 16 — Miami Herald, “Hughes Flew It, London Will Float It”
- November — Miami Pictorial magazine, “It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane … It’s A Boat?”
1973
- Jan. 16 — Hollywood Sun-Tattler, ”London Devotes Spare Time To Converting Plane To Boat”
- March — Family Houseboating magazine, “Flying Penthouse”
1974
- May 5 — Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, “Londonaire Still High, Dry — She’s Not Just A Plane Old Yacht”
- July 13 — Hollywood Sun-Tattler, “Amateur Pilot Impatiently Waits To Test Plane Converted To Boat”
- Aug. 8— Hollywood Sun-Tattler, “Craft Causes Stir Wherever It Goes”
- Sept. 6 — Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, “56 Foot Airplane Makes Conversion Into Sleek Yacht”
1976
- April 6 — Hollywood Sun-Tattler, “Hughes’ Last Journey — The ‘Plane’ Life Of A Billionaire”
- May — Air Classics magazine, “The Flying Whale — The Complete History Of The Boeing 307 Stratoliner”
- Nov. 29 — Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, “Ex-Hughes’ Plane Converted To Boat Turning Heads In Pompano Beach”
1977
- Aug. 3 — Miami Herald, “It’s A Boat, No It’s A Plane, No It’s …”
1978
- January — Go Boating magazine, “Howard Hughes’ “Bird” Minus Wings Now A Boat”
1979
- Aug. 2 — Miami Herald, “Hughes’ Airplane Has Fluid Future”
1980
- June — SEA magazine, “Plane To Boat — It Started With Howard Hughes”
1981
- March 2 — Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, “Unique Houseboat A Bargain”
- May — Soundings magazine, “Howard Hughes’ Sea-level Stratoliner Serves As Florida Man’s Floating Home”
- Aug. 6 — Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel, “Hughes’ ’Flying Penthouse’ Treated To A Permanent Anchorage’”
- Oct. 9 — Associated Press, “Hughes Airplane In Fourth Incarnation”
- Dec. 22 — Weekly World News, “Howard Hughes' plane now a floating house”
1982
- April — Motor Boating & Sailing magazine, "Penthouse Boat"
- Aug. 9 — Miami News, “Houseboat Once Hughes High-flier”
1984
- May 20 — Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! cartoon serial, “Just A Plane Boat?”
- Sept. 1984 — Fleiger (German aviation magazine), “The Flying Penthouse”
- Sept. 1984 — Yachting — A Parody magazine,“ Soave 48 Hrs. — The Shape Of Things To Come”
1985
- Fall — Nautical Quarterly, half page photo of exterior
- Nov. 28 — Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentine Hi-Riser, “Not Just A ‘Plane Boat”
1986
- Jan. 12 — Ft. Lauderdale News & Sun-Sentinel — City Plus,“Dave Drimmer’s Boat Is Exceptionally Plane”
- May — International Aviation Mechanics Journal magazine,“ The Saga Of The Flying Penthouse”
- November — Pilot News magazine, “The Flying Penthouse”
1989
- January — Western Flyer — Of Wings & Things magazine, “Luxury a la Hughes”
- January–March — Boeing Airliner magazine, “Stratoliner’s Golden Anniversary”
- May 1989 — Motor Boating & Sailing magazine, “Transformation”
- July 1989 — Boeing 307 Stratoliner, The World’s First High-Altitude Airliner (Boeing Historical Archive publication), “The Strange Saga Of Howard Hughes’ Stratoliner”
1991
- March 11 — Houston Post,“‘Flying Penthouse’ May Return To City, This Time Via The Sea”
- April — Quiet Birdmen Beam magazine, half page photo of exterior with caption
- October — FlyPast (British aviation magazine), “Boeing boat”
1994
- July — Watercraft World, “Windy-Weather Tour”
1995
- May–June — Airways magazine, “Boeing 307 Stratoliner: The Right Plane at the Wrong Time”
1996
- Oct. 17 — Miami Herald, “‘Flying Penthouse’ now a dream boat”
- December — Le Fana de l’Aviation (French magazine), “Sur Les Traces d’Howard Hughes”
1997
- November — Dockwalk magazine, color photo with caption
1998
- May 14 — New Times magazine, “A Legendary Bachelor Pad Sets Sail Again”
- July 10 — Boeing News magazine, “Stratoliner Now More Of An Oceanliner Today’
- September — Dockwalk magazine, “It’s A Plane! It’s A Boat! It’s The Cosmic Muffin”
- October — Wings magazine, “History Of The Stratoliner”
2000
- May — Pacific Flyer magazine, “Funny Florida’s Seagoing ‘Cosmic Muffin’ Seems To Be Strangely Familiar”
- June — Waterfront News, “It’s a boat; It’s a plane; No, it’s called a ‘Cosmic Muffin’”
2001
- July — Houseboat magazine, “Changes In Latitude, Changes In Altitude”
- July — Yamaha Today magazine, “Yamaha Four-Stroke F50s Power The Plane Boat, Cosmic Muffin”
- Summer — Pilot Journal magazine, “It’s A Boat! It’s A Plane! It’s The Cosmic Muffin?”
- November–December — Airliners magazine, “Ode To The Stratoliner”
2002
- August — Sport Aviation magazine, “More Boeing 307 Memories”
- October — Trailer Boats magazine, “Over the Transom” photo contest
- Nov. 11 — People magazine, “Unreal Estate”
2003
- Spring — Propliner magazine No. 94, “The Cosmic Muffin”
- Spring — Epoxyworks magazine,"The Three Lives of Cosmic Muffin”
- May 2003 — Scottsdale Aviation & Business Journal, “Custom Airplane Homes Coast-to-Coast”
- June 12 — Eastsider magazine, “Bound for buoyancy”
- June 19 —Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentine Hi-Riser newspaper, “Seaside resident goes overboard for unusual home”
- July–August — Airliners magazine No. 82, “Airliner Homes: Living the Dream”
- Dec. 16 — Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, “Welcome aboard ... Cosmic Muffin, the outboard-powered airplane”
2004
- January–February — PC Pilot magazine, ‘A B-307 floatplane?”
- First Quarter — Room of the Man (Japanese pictorial magazine), “High Modern Rooms / Miami, California, New York, Japan”
- September — Power & Motoryacht magazine, “Flying the Friendly Seas”
- October–November — Air & Space magazine (Smithsonian), “Hughes and His Aircraft”
- Dec. 6 — The Sun, United Kingdom, “I'm on my way to the run wave”
2005
- Winter — Yesterday in Florida magazine, “The Ingenuity of Howard Hughes Lives on in Florida”
- Winter–Spring — Avanti magazine,“ The Avanti and the Plane-boat: A special bond between Loewy and Howard Hughes”
- April — Boating magazine, “It's A Boat! It's A Plane! It's …”
- August–September — ASAS (Brazilian aviation magazine), “N19904: A incrível história do Statroliner de Howard Hughes”
2006
- January — What a Home! (children's booklet), “Whatever Floats Your Boat”
2007
- Spring — Florida Dog magazine, “How Do You mMake a Cosmic Muffin?”
- June — Bat Magasiney (Norwegian boating magazine), “American Reuse”
- June — Aquatoria of Luxury Life (Russian magazine), “The First Aircraft Yacht in the World”
- August — Soundings (boating magazine), “The ‘Aviator’s Plane Lives on as a Boat”
- September — Expat (Malaysian magazine), “Half Baked”
- October — Playboy (German edition), “Only Flying is Safer”
2008
- September — Make: technology on your time magazine, “Planeboat Memories”
2009
- June — Yachting Revue (Czech magazine) — “Cosmic Muffin”
- December — Avianca en revista — (airline magazine) — "The Cosmic Muffin"
2010
- August — Florida Realtor, “Whatever Floats Your ... Plane?”
2011
- Winter — Boatguide,“Look! It's a Boat! It’s a Plane! It’s … The Cosmic Muffin”
Book Club
Books in which the Cosmic Muffin, Howard Hughes, and the Boeing Stratoliner 307 are mentioned.
- 1992 — Buffett, Jimmy , Where Is Joe Merchant?, a novel, Hartcourt, New York, NY
- 1998 — Norris, Guy and Mark Wagner, Boeing, MBI Publishing Co., Osceola, WI, p. 39
- 1999 — Lee, David, Boeing: From Peashooter to Jumbo, Chartwell Books, Inc., Edison, NJ, pp. 45–46
- 2000 — Quigley, Jackson, JimmyDOTcom, St. Somewhere Press, Lake Forest, CA, p. 93
- 2003 — Buffett, Jimmy , Where Is Joe Merchant?, a novel, Hartcourt, New York, NY (trade paperback)
- 2004 — Pohlen, Jerome, Oddball Florida: A Guide to Some Reality, Chicago Review Press, Chicago, IL, p. 183
- 2005 — Hall, Lynne L., Strange But True Florida, Sweetwater Press, pp. 53–54
- 2005 — Moriaty, William, Florida: A collection of Sunshine State folklore, facts and fancy, pp. 267-272
- 2005 — Blewett, Roy, North American Survivors, Gatwick Aviation Society, Croydon, Surrey, UK, p. 119
- October 2007 — Mastering the World of Psychology, “Imagery and Concepts”
- September 2011 — Ripley’s Believe it or Not: Strikingly True, “Plane Sailing”