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Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace and defense contractor founded by Howard Hughes in 1934. It produced the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the Galileo probe, the AIM-4 Falcon missile, and later became Hughes Helicopters.
The Hughes H-4 Hercules, also known as the Spruce Goose, was a prototype strategic airlift flying boat built by Hughes Aircraft during World War II. It made only one brief flight in 1947 and is now preserved at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in Oregon.
Howard Hughes was an American engineer, producer, aviator, and businessman who died of kidney failure in 1976. He was born on December 24, 1905, in Houston, Texas, and became famous for his films, airplanes, and Las Vegas empire.
The Hughes Airport (IATA: CVR) was a private airport owned by Howard Hughes for the Hughes Aircraft Company.It was located just north of the Westchester bluffs and district of Los Angeles, California, from 1940 until its closure in 1985.
The Hughes H-1 Racer is a racing aircraft built by Howard Hughes in 1935. It set both a world airspeed record and a transcontinental speed record across the United States, and inspired later radial engine fighters such as the Zero.
In 1937, Howard Hughes began the design of an advanced twin-engine, twin-boom aircraft. The D-2's early gestation is historically obscure because Hughes Aircraft and its corporate successors have never released archives regarding the D-2; however, Howard Hughes had recently set a global circumnavigation speed record in a Lockheed 14.
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The Hughes XH-17 "Flying Crane" was the first helicopter project for the helicopter division of Hughes Aircraft Company.The XH-17, which had a two-bladed main rotor system with a diameter of 134 feet (41 m), still holds the world record for flying with the largest rotor system.