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The moving image collection of Howard Hughes is held at the Academy Film Archive. The collection consists of over 200 items including 35mm and 16mm elements of feature films, documentaries, and television programs made or accumulated by Hughes. Filmography
- April 5, 1976 (aged 70), en route via air from Mexico to Houston, Texas, U.S.
- Howard Robard Hughes Jr., December 24, 1905, Houston, Texas, U.S.
- Businessman, filmmaker, investor, philanthropist, pilot
- Howard R. Hughes Sr. (father)
- The Hughes Flying Boat
- After The Flight
- The Big Move
- Restoration Begins
- The Spruce Goose Reigns Supreme
- Dispelling Rumors
- The Movie Connection
The aircraft was first conceived during World War II, when there was a growing need to get men and supplies over to England and Allied ships were being sunk at an alarming rate by German submarines. In 1942, Henry Kaiser—a steel magnate and shipbuilder—came up with the concept of a giant seaplane to transport men and supplies. He enlisted the help ...
The H-4, however, never entered production and never flew again. Hughes had the aircraft moved into a climate-controlled hangar in Long Beach Harbor. It was off limits to the public. Despite this, until the end of his life, Hughes had standing orders that the aircraft was to be kept “one phone call away” from flight. The annual cost to mothball the...
The aircraft was disassembled, and the fuselage, control surfaces, wings, horizontal stabilizers and vertical tail were carefully shrink-wrapped to protect them. The disassembly took six weeks and left the airplane in 38 pieces. There were, however, a few surprises along the way. When the massive tail was pulled off the empennage, for example, it l...
The first stage of restoration was accomplished over several months in a temporary facility at Evergreen Aviation at McMinnville Airport (KMMV). While the aircraft was restored, the museum, located about 800 feet away across the road, began to take shape. Sadly, Michael King Smith would not live to see the museum open. He was killed in a car accide...
Today the Spruce Goose is one of 108 aircraft on display at the museum. It sits in the center of the building, its keel countersunk about seven feet into the floor. The airplane is so large, according to the museum Curation & Collections Director Lydia Heins, that some visitors don’t realize they are looking at an airplane when they first lay eyes ...
There are some wild stories out there about the Spruce Goose, according to Heins, among them that the Spruce Goose has termites (not true), that the engines are fired up annually (not true), or that there is more than one Spruce Goose(so not true). None of that is true, Heins said, adding that the termite reference was someone’s idea of an April Fo...
In 2003, when the Hughes’ biopic, The Aviator, was in production, movie production staff visited the museum several times as they worked to design and build sets for the all-important Spruce Goose flying scene. The museum staff worked with set designers that built the full mockup of the flight deck, which required the recreation of the flight stati...
Nov 4, 2023 · Scenes from movies such as The Aviator (a Howard Hughes biopic), Titanic, Avatar, Eagle Eye, and Transformers have been filmed in the 315,000-square-foot space. At the moment, Google leases the property where the hangar was. The building underwent a transformation into a creative office space when the tech giant moved in at the end of 2018.
The Racer was designed and built in 1935 by Howard Hughes and Glen Odekirk for the specific purpose of capturing the land-based speed record, which it did flashing through the timers at 352 miles per hour. Hughes pioneered the use of flush rivets and butt-joined aluminum panels to minimize parasitic drag on the airframe. Powered by a Pratt ...
14 Images. This object is on display in Aerobatic Flight at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA . Hughes H-1 Racer Panorama. Record-Setting Landplane The Hughes H-1 racer was the fastest landplane in the world.
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May 4, 2019 · Famed shipwright Henry Kaiser had an idea, and he enlisted the help of legendary aircraft designer and business mogul Howard Hughes to bring it to fruition: an enormous flying cargo ship. The H-4 ...
Collection Moving Image Collection Rights Information Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object. Description Lockheed film (est 1970's) Lockheed's years in Burbank, CA Color/sound/16:56 min Characters: Charles, Lindbergh, Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart, Howard Hughes, Kelly Johnson.
