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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]
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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
Major Rudolf Anderson, a Greenville, South Carolina native and 1948 graduate from Clemson University's cadet corps and pilot with the 4080th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing is tasked with an overflight of Cuba on mission 3128, in a CIA Lockheed U-2F spyplane, remarked with U.S. Air Force insignia, to take photos of the Soviet SS-N-4 medium-range ...
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The Hughes Model 269 was known to the U.S. Army as the TH-55 Osage. In 1947, Howard Hughes redirected the Hughes Aircraft Company's efforts from airplanes to helicopters. . The effort began in earnest in 1948, when helicopter manufacturer Kellett Autogiro Corporation sold their latest design to Hughes for product