Magazines, Newspapers, and Broadcast: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

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Magazines, Newspapers, and Broadcast

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

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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
• Nov. 11 — WSVN Channel 7 (NBC), Miami, news story

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

• April 11 — WTVJ Channel 4 (CBS), Miami, news story
• Fall — Nautical Quarterly, half page photo of exterior
• Oct. 7 — WTTV Channel 13 (CBS), Tampa, news story
• Oct. 15 — WCIX Channel 6 (CBS), Miami, news story
• Nov. 28 — 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 pub.), “The Strange Saga Of Howard Hughes’ Stratoliner”

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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

• May — Banana Wind CD by Jimmy Buffett, “Desdemona’s Building A Rocketship”
• Aug. 9 — WPLG Channel 10 (ABC), Miami, news story
• Oct. 17 — Miami Herald, ‘Flying Penthouse’ now a dream boat
• Nov. 30 — Deco Drive — WSVN Channel 7 (FOX), Miami, feature story
• December — Le Fana de l’Aviation (French magazine), Sur Les Traces d’Howard Hugues

1997

• Jan. 14 — CNN Headline News feature story
• Jan. 21 — Strange Universe (syndicated TV) feature story
• Feb. 16, 1997 — Real TV (syndicated TV) feature story
• May 9 — Occurrio Asi (Telemundo Spanish TV) feature story
• November — Dockwalk magazine, color photo with caption

1998

• May 14 — NewTimes magazine, A Legendary Bachelor Pad Sets Sail Again
• May 24 — Extreme Homes (Home & Garden TV) feature story
• 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
• Nov. 13 — The Oprah Winfrey Show feature story

1999

• Jan. 29 — reaired on Oprah
• February — Over The Edge TV (syndicated TV) feature story

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2000

• May — Boat World (syndicated TV) feature story
• May — Pacific Flyer magazine, Funny Florida’s Seagoing ‘Cosmic Muffin’ Seems To Be Strangely Familiar
• May 4 — WTVJ Channel 6 (NBC), Miami, Air & Sea Show Pilots Party feature story
• June — Jimmy dot Com, The Evolution of a Phan book feature story
• 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?
• Sept. 19 — The Ananada Lewis Show (syndicated TV) feature story
• 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

• Spring — Propliner magazine No. 94, The Cosmic Muffin
• Spring — Epoxyworks magazine,The Three Lives of Cosmic Muffin
• March 1–2 — Livin' Large (syndicated TV) feature story
• April 3 — World’s Best: Top Ten Outrageous Homes (Travel Channel) feature story
• May 2003 — Scottsdale Aviation & Business Journal, Custom Airplane Homes Coast-to-Coast
• May 31 — Univision (Spanish TV Network) Control feature story
• June 12 — Eastsider magazine, Bound for buoyancy
• June 19 — Hi-Riser magazine — Seaside resident goes overboard for unusual home
• June 24 — Univision (Spanish TV Network) Ver para Creer feature story
• July 9 — WXEL Channel 42 (PBS), West Palm Beach, South Florida Today feature story
• July–August — Airliners magazine No. 82, Airliner Homes: Living the Dream
• Sept. 18 — WPBT Channel 2 (PBS), MIami, New Florida feature story
• Oct. 31 — John Walsh Show (Syndicated TV) feature story.
• Dec. 16 — Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Welcome aboard ... Cosmic Muffin, the outboard-powered airplane

• January–February — PC pilot magazine, A B-307 floatplane?
• First Quarter — Memo No. 2 (Japanese pictorial magazine), High Modern Rooms / Miami, California, New York, Japan
• September — Power & Motoryacht magazine, Flying the Friendly Seas
• Sept. 13 — Travel Channel, Amazing Vacation Homes
• October–November, Air & Space magazine (Smithsonian), Hughes and His Aircraft
• Nov. 1 — Discovery Channel, Monster Nation
• Dec. 6 — The Sun, United Kingdom, I'm on my way to the run wave

Books in which the Cosmic Muffin Howard Hughes, and the Stratoliner 307 are mentioned.