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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction number LC-USZ62-63333. Hughes standing in front of his Boeing 100A Army Pursuit Plane, Inglewood, California, 1940s. · Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (Library of Congress: "No copyright found; checked by staff December 2000")
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Sources
- Howard Hughes -- orientation only, not cited as evidence for any scored row
- Howard Hughes (Q189081)
- Turner Classic Movies, "Hell's Angels (1930)" -- film-history institutional account of the production's extreme reshoot ratio, the sound-conversion overhaul, the actress replacement over accent, and Hughes personally flying a stunt sequence stunt pilots refused, crashing and breaking bones. Fetched and read directly.
- Invention & Technology magazine (American Heritage), "Howard Hughes the Innovator" -- quotes Robert Rummel, Hughes's own senior TWA/Hughes technical manager, on his design engagement and detail fixation, and documents the H-1 Racer's specific design decisions and the D-2-to-Spruce-Goose wood-construction adaptation. Fetched and read directly.
- Time magazine (Aug 1947 archive), "THE CONGRESS: Duel Under the Klieg Lights" -- contemporary press account of Hughes's Senate War Investigating Committee testimony, with direct quotations of his bribery accusation against Sen. Owen Brewster and Sen. Homer Ferguson's characterization of Hughes's conduct. Fetched and read directly.
- Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, "The Spruce Goose" -- institutional museum account (the H-4 Hercules's permanent home) of the wood-construction decision under wartime material restrictions and Hughes's unannounced decision to fly the aircraft himself during what was billed as a taxi test, Nov 2 1947. Fetched and read directly.
- Smithsonian Institution / National Air and Space Museum, "Hughes H-1 Racer" collection record -- institutional confirmation of the design team, the Sept 13 1935 world landplane speed record (352 mph / 567 km/h at Santa Ana, CA), and Hughes's own 1975 donation of the aircraft to the Smithsonian. A direct fetch of si.edu returned HTTP 403; content read via search-result excerpts that reproduce the Smithsonian's own object-record text, not a full direct page load -- noted honestly rather than overclaiming a direct read.