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Howard Hughes, at 36, is no amateur in the business, is an airman's airman: holder of the transcontinental speed record (7 hr., 28 min.), holder of the round-the-world record (3 days, 19 hr., 8 min.), big shareholder in great Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. He is a first-rate designer himself, has a personal staff of technicians at work in his own experimental laboratories. He and his staff drew up plans for the giant new Constellation transport (range 4,000 miles; capacity 57 passengers, cruising speed 283 m.p.h.) and Howard committed himself...
...speed and round-the-world flights were triumphs of careful planning: each added to his store of aircraft knowledge...
Cargo planes have long been a Hughes dream; in one of his rare public speeches, after his round-the-world flight, he predicted that airplanes would some day supplant ocean liners, said that the aircraft industry's future was "beyond the scope of the most fantastic imagination." Now that Imaginer Hughes and Imaginer Kaiser are teamed up, Americans may possibly see some fantastic results...
About this time Pangborn was arrested, detained and fined for flying over Japan on a round-the-world flight...
Australian Airman Harold Gatty, navigator of the Winnie Mae on its record-breaking round-the-world flight with the late Wiley Post in 1931, was given a new job in Melbourne: Director of Air Transport with the U.S. Army Air Corps. Gatty was also made an honorary group captain...