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Vor 2 Tagen · A lifelong aircraft enthusiast and pilot, Hughes survived four airplane accidents: one in a Thomas-Morse Scout while filming Hell's Angels, one while setting the airspeed record in the Hughes Racer, one at Lake Mead in 1943, and the near-fatal crash of the Hughes XF-11 in 1946.
- April 5, 1976 (aged 70), en route via air from Mexico to Houston, Texas, U.S.
- Howard Robard Hughes Jr., December 24, 1905, Houston, Texas, U.S.
- Businessman, filmmaker, investor, philanthropist, pilot
- Howard R. Hughes Sr. (father)
Vor 3 Tagen · The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner (or Strato-Clipper in Pan American service, or C-75 in USAAF service) is an American stressed-skin four-engine low-wing tailwheel monoplane airliner derived from the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, which entered commercial service in July 1940.
27. Apr. 2024 · At the time of its construction, the Hughes H-4 Hercules, familiarly known as the Spruce Goose, was the world's largest plane. However, it was built for a war that was already over and never found a place in our modern world.
Vor 4 Tagen · Die Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor ( englisch für Greifvogel) ist ein Luftüberlegenheitsjäger der fünften Generation. Sie wurde von dem US-Flugzeughersteller Lockheed Martin entwickelt und gebaut. Boeing lieferte wesentliche Teile zu. Sie wird ausschließlich von der US Air Force als Nachfolger der F-15A-D Eagle eingesetzt.
1. Mai 2024 · Howard Hughes, manufacturer-pilot and chief stockholder in Trans World Airline, yesterday demonstrated a 16-pound radar device which he believes will act as a “seeing-eye” for transport aircraft flying in darkness or bad weather and prevent a substantial share of airline crashes.
17. Apr. 2024 · Considered the largest land-based cargo plane in the country, the “Constellation” took off from Lockheed Air Terminal at 5:56 a.m., (Dayton time) today with veteran pilot Howard Hughes and Jack Frye, TWA president, co-designers of the plane, as pilot and co-pilot, respectively.
30. Apr. 2024 · Based in Glendale, California, business magnate Howard Hughes and his Hughes Aircraft company made some notable contributions to aviation. In his Hughes H-1, he set world airspeed (1935), transcontinental (1937) and round the world (1938) flight records.
