Who is Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business
magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer,[4] film director, and philanthropist, known
during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.

Early years

He was born on December 24, 1905, in Harris County, Texas. ughes was the son of Allene
Stone Gano and Howard R. Hughes Sr., a successful inventor and businessman from Missouri.
At a young age, Hughes demonstrated an interest in science and technology. He was an
indifferent student, with a liking for mathematics, flying, and mechanics. He took his first flying
lesson at 14, and attended Fessenden School in Massachusetts in 1921. Howard Sr.'s will had
not been updated since Allene's death, and Hughes inherited 75% of the family fortune.

Business career

Hughes enjoyed a highly successful business career beyond engineering, aviation, and
filmmaking, though many of his career endeavors involved varying entrepreneurial roles.

Aviation and aerospace

Another portion of Hughes' business interests lay in aviation, airlines, and the aerospace and
defense industries.

Round-the-world flight
On July 14, 1938, Hughes set another record by completing a flight around the world in just 91
hours (three days, 19 hours, 17 minutes), beating the previous record set in 1933 by Wiley
Post in a single engine Lockheed Vega by almost four days.

Airplane that was built by howar huges

Hughes D-2 and XF-11

Fatal crash of the Sikorsky S-43

Near-fatal crash of the XF-11

H-4 Hercules

Airlines

In 1939, at the urging of Jack Frye, president of Trans World Airlines (TWA), Hughes began to
quietly purchase a majority share of TWA stock, and took a controlling interest in the airline by
1944.[

Hughes, in addition, achieved great public notoriety thanks to his fierce opposition to the
pseudo-monopoly of the iconic American airline Pan Am, which had the "Legal Designation" to
exclusively carry out transatlantic flights in the United States that finally ended this legislation,
allowing the start of operations in the area of its own airline

Dead

Hughes was reported to have died on April 5, 1976, at 1:27 p.m. on board an aircraft owned by
Robert Graf and piloted by Jeff Abrams. He was en route from his penthouse at the Acapulco
Fairmont Princess Hotel in Mexico to the Methodist Hospital in Houston. Other accounts
indicate that he died on the flight from Freeport, Grand Bahama, to Houston.