Aircraft Photo of NR258Y | Hughes H-1 | AirHistory.net #139036
Location
City / Airport:Glendale - Grand Central (closed)Map
Region / Country:California, United States
Airport Codes:None
 
Photo Date:January 1937
Photo from:AirHistory.net Photo Archive
Photo ID: 139036
Photo Comment

Flown - and crash-landed - by Howard Hughes himself, his H-1 took the world speed record for landplanes to 567 km/h (352 mph) on 13 September 1935. Oddly the Macchi MC.72 floatplane was very much faster at 709 km/h (441 mph). Photo by: John Underwood / Glendale Public Library

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