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Hughes Aircraft Company founder Howard Hughes had first promoted the D-2 as a "pursuit type airplane", (i.e. a fighter aircraft), [8] [9] but it lacked both the maneuverability of a fighter and the load-carrying capacity of bomber, and could not accommodate required military equipment; additionally, the USAAF Air Materiel Command (AMC) objected ...
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.
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 The wreckage of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 at its crash site Accident Date June 6, 1971 (1971-06-06) 18:11 (6:11 PM) PDT Summary Mid-air collision Site San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States 34°10′30″N 118°00′00″W / 34.175°N 118.00°W / 34.175; -118.00 Total fatalities 50 Total survivors 1 First aircraft N9345, the ...
Decades ago, Nolan wrote the screenplay for a biopic about aviator and business tycoon Howard Hughes, but the project never took flight because Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator,” starring ...
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 .
A US Army Black Hawk helicopter with a crew of three collided with an American Airlines jet carrying 64 people seconds before the passenger aircraft was due to land at Washington National airport.
That year started with the horrific automobile accident on Memorial Day weekend, resulting in the deaths of the wife and daughter of then-assistant coach Howard Moore.