Howard Hughes
Published on Feb 11, 2016
No Description
MORE DECKS TO EXPLORE
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
HUGHES D-2
HUGHES D-2
- Hughes aircraft
- Hired by the U.S. Air Force
- Built Hughes D-2
- Flown in the Arizona desert in secrecy
- Vibration issues
- Mysterious fire destroying finished D-2 and second nearly complete D-2
- Project haulted
HUGHES H-1
- Built by Howard Hughes himself
- Designed as a racing aircraft
- Broke multiple speed records
- Trans-continental and airspeed
- Crashed into a beet field
HUGHES XF-11
- Built in place of the D--2
- Flown on July 7th 1946
- Due to a propeller hub failure the first prototype crashed
- Killing 1 and severely injuring another
- Howard burned severely and hospitalized
HK-1/H-4 "SPRUCE GOOSE
- Requested by the Airforce
- Required to be built from "unconventional methods"
- Sea plane
- World war 2 ends
- No longer needed
Photo by Cresny
Untitled Slide
- Kaiser abandoned the aircraft
- Withdrew ownership
- Finished aircraft flown on November 2 1947
Photo by gregstafford
