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The Unusual And Controversial Life Of Howard Hughes, American Billionaire Entrepreneur, Business Magnate, Record-Setting Aircraft Pilot, Aircraft Manufacturer, Engineer, Film Director And Producer, Studio Executive, Philanthropist, Eccentric And Recluse, Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1991, 45 Minutes.) #HowardHughes #Businessmen #AircraftPilots #Pilots #Aviators #FilmDirectors #Philanthropists #RKO #SpruceGoose #AviationHistory #HistoryOfAviation #Aviation #ObsessiveCompulsiveDisorder #DVD #VideoDownload #USBFlashDrive
Howard Hughes, American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was born Howard Robard Hughes Jr. in Houston, Texas. He first made a name for himself as a film producer, and then became an influential figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle, oddities that were caused in part by a worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from several plane crashes, and increasing deafness. As a maverick film tycoon, Hughes gained prominence in Hollywood beginning in the late 1920s, when he produced big-budget and often controversial films like The Racket (1928), Hell's Angels (1930), and Scarface (1932). Later he controlled the RKO film studio. Hughes formed the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, hiring numerous engineers and designers. He spent the rest of the 1930s and much of the 1940s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules (the Spruce Goose). He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later acquired Air West, renaming it Hughes Airwest. Hughes was included in Flying Magazine's list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No. 25. He is perhaps best remembered for designing an eight-engine flying boat, nicknamed the Spruce Goose, which was to carry 750 passengers, although it only made one brief test flight. Hughes is reported to have died of kidney failure on April 5, 1976 aged 70 in Houston, Texas, at 1:27 p.m. on board a Learjet 24B N855W aircraft.