The Hughes H-1
by Walt Nowotny
All photos courtesy of Miramax Film Corp., Aero Telemetry, and Joseph Bok.
As seen in the July 2005 issue of Model Aviation.
AS FILMING BEGAN on Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning movie The Aviator, he was faced with a dilemma: how to accurately portray Howard Hughes’ aircraft and the film’s flying scenes without having the original airplanes. Of those needed for the major flying sequences, one no longer existed and the other two were on permanent display in a museum, unable to fly.
Howard Hughes in the cockpit of…