This distinctive aircraft was among the first airliners to be pressurized and make the transcontinental flight with ...

Hughes piloted the brief test flight of this enormous craft in 1947, lifting it a short distance above the water but ...

Howard Hughes Holdings focuses on master-planned communities, having divested non-core assets like South Street Seaport and ...

Spruce Goose To gain the needed expertise in designing and building such an aircraft, Kaiser went into partnership with Howard Hughes, who was already famous for his exploits in aviation ...

Not just for the aircraft, but it would have been a death blow to the reputation of Howard Hughes himself, who had already taken a lot of heat for producing a wooden aircraft. Opponents to his ...

Hughes began his business career at the age of nineteen by taking over his father’s business, Hughes Tool Company. Hughes parlayed this small business into a highly successful and well-regarded ...

Biopic of billionaire Howard Hughes, starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of R.K.O. Pictures, but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a ...