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  2. Hughes Aircraft Company - Wikipedia

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    By the end of that year, the U.S. Air Force had purchased the property and contracted Hughes (and subsequently Raytheon [18]) to operate the site as Air Force Plant 44. Howard Hughes donated Hughes Aircraft to the newly formed Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) in 1953 allegedly as a way of avoiding taxes on its huge income. [19]

  3. AIM-4 Falcon - Wikipedia

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    Hughes Aircraft was awarded a contract for a subsonic missile under the project designation MX-798, which soon gave way to the supersonic MX-904 in 1947. The original purpose of the weapon was as a self-defense weapon for bomber aircraft , which would carry a magazine of three missiles in the rear fuselage, and fire them through a long tube ...

  4. Raytheon Missiles & Defense - Wikipedia

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    Raytheon Missiles & Defense (RMD) was one of four business segments of RTX Corporation.Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, its president was Wes Kremer. [1] The business produced a broad portfolio of advanced technologies, including air and missile defense systems, precision weapons, radars, and command and control systems. [2]

  5. Howard Hughes - Wikipedia

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    On July 14, 1938, Hughes set another record by completing a flight around the world in just 91 hours (three days, 19 hours, 17 minutes), [36] beating the previous record of 186 hours (seven days, 18 hours, 49 minutes) set in 1933 by Wiley Post in a single-engine Lockheed Vega by almost four days. Hughes returned home ahead of photographs of his ...

  6. TRW Inc. - Wikipedia

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    In 1950, Simon Ramo and Dean Wooldridge while working for Hughes Aircraft, led the development of the Falcon radar-guided missile, among other projects. They grew frustrated with Howard Hughes ' management, and formed the Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation in September 1953, [ 13 ] with the financial support of Thompson Products. [ 2 ]

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  8. HRL Laboratories - Wikipedia

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    HRL Laboratories (formerly Hughes Research Laboratories) is a research center in Malibu, California, established in 1960. Formerly the research arm of Hughes Aircraft , it is currently owned by General Motors Corporation and Boeing .

  9. North Korea expands weapons plant that makes missiles ... - AOL

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    North Korea is expanding a weapons plant that manufactures missiles used by Russia against Ukraine, according to new research from a US-based think tank. The facility produces both KN-23 missiles ...