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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 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 ...
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On June 6, 1971 involved a mid-air collision that occurred when Hughes Airwest Flight 706, a regularly scheduled flight operated by American domestic airline Hughes Airwest from Los Angeles, California to Seattle, Washington, with several intermediate stops, operated by a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 departed Los Angeles just after 6 p.m. en route to Seattle as a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of ...
aircraft stalled and crashed during approach to land in snow [32] Peter Wentworth-Fitzwilliam: United Kingdom 1948 8th Earl FitzWilliam: de Havilland Dove: France Oscar Westover: United States 1938 Major General, Chief of the United States Army Air Corps: Northrop A-17AS Burbank, California: aircraft crashed in crosswind short of runway on ...
Then-33-year-old Phil Bradley was the sole survivor in the 1959 crash of Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 near Crozet, Virginia. The earliest known sole survivor is Lou Foote. On 17 March 1929, as the pilot of a Jersey sightseeing flight, he attempted to force land the monoplane when it suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff.
U.S. investigators have confirmed that a mechanical issue caused the seaplane crash that killed 10 people off an island in Washington state last year. The National Transportation Safety Board ...
H. Radjin de Haan; Walter Hagen (aviator) Bert Hamilton; Marten Hartwell; John Kenneth Haviland; Al Haynes; Bobbie Heine Miller; Ernest Hemingway; Rafael Henzel