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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]
Leighton, David, ""The History of the Hughes Missile Plant in Tucson, 1947-1960," Private Publication, 2015; McCarthy Jr. Donald J. MiG Killers, A Chronology of U.S. Air Victories in Vietnam 1965-1973. 2009, Specialty Press. ISBN 978-1-58007-136-9. Michel III, Marshall L. Clashes, Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965-1972. 1997, Naval Institute ...
Hughes acquired 1200 acres in Culver City for Hughes Aircraft, bought 7 sections [4,480 acres] in Tucson for his Falcon missile-plant, and purchased 25,000 acres near Las Vegas. [ 6 ] : 103, 254 In 1968, the Hughes Tool Company purchased the North Las Vegas Air Terminal.
The Hughes AIM-47 Falcon, originally GAR-9, was a very long-range high-performance air-to-air missile that shared the basic design of the earlier AIM-4 Falcon.It was developed in 1958 along with the new Hughes AN/ASG-18 radar fire-control system intended to arm the Mach 3 XF-108 Rapier interceptor aircraft and, after that jet's cancellation, the YF-12A (whose production was itself cancelled ...
New communities opened in Arizona, Nevada, California, and Texas. During the 1990s, Marco Rubio began holding speaking engagements at these retirement communities, for which the company tried to reward him by nicknaming a star after him in 1993. [15] In 2001 the corporation was purchased by Pulte Homes. The Del Webb name is used by Pulte as a ...
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing complex that assembles a type of short-range missile used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers at a U.S.-based think ...
This became the "new" Hughes Tool Company while the remaining divisions of the business were placed in a new holding company, the Summa Corporation. During the 1979 visit by Deng Xiaoping to the United States, Deng visited the company's Houston plant. [8] Hughes Tool Company merged with Baker International to form Baker Hughes Incorporated in ...
The Arlington Heights Army Air Defense Site was a Project Nike Missile Master site near Chicago, Illinois. It operated from 1960 until 1968. It operated from 1960 until 1968. Installation started in late 1959 [ 1 ] after the United States Army had purchased 44 acres (18 ha).