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1946-07-11_Hughes_Plane_Crash.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 53 s, 400 × 300 pixels, 535 kbps overall, file size: 3.36 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
During its official maiden flight on 7 July 1946 from the Hughes Aircraft factory airfield at Culver City, piloted by Howard Hughes personally, the aircraft crashed and was destroyed, and Hughes was severely injured. [33] [34] Hughes did not follow the agreed testing protocol, which called for a 45-minute flight with the landing gear extended.
Hughes' internist, Verne Mason, who treated Hughes after his 1946 aircraft crash, was chairman of the institute's medical advisory committee. [108] The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's new board of trustees sold Hughes Aircraft in 1985 to General Motors for $5.2 billion, allowing the institute to grow dramatically.
[122] [123] Following this pair of major accidents, all F-105B and D aircraft are grounded for correction of chafing and flight control deficiencies. The project, called Look Alike and started in July 1962, is expected to be completed quickly but due to continued operational problems will grow to an extensive two-year modification program ...
In 1955, Howard Hughes split the helicopter production unit from the Hughes Aircraft Company, and reconstituted it with Hughes Tool Company, calling it Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division. The Aircraft Division had a focus on the production of light helicopters, mainly the Hughes 269 / 300 and the OH-6 Cayuse / Hughes 500 .
It was the first aircraft type produced by the Hughes Aircraft company. Design studies began in 1934 with an exacting scale model (over two feet in length) that was tested in the California Institute of Technology wind tunnel, revealing a speed potential of 365 mph (587 km/h).
Late billionaire Howard Hughes once literally lost the shirt off his back — and it can now be yours. A vintage cream-colored crepe top with coconut shell buttons, a “Made in Hawaii” label ...
The aircraft staggered and descended in a flat attitude with little forward speed. Howard ejected and descended under a good canopy, but winds blew him into the ascending fireball from the crashed aircraft, melting his parachute; Howard plummeted 200 ft (61 m) and sustained fatal injuries. [146]