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From: Dave Carroll, flyway@pil.net
Date: 6/12/01
Time: 10:16:20 AM
Remote Name: 207.8.166.162
You can imagine my interest when a fellow flight simmer steered me to your site. The thread below takes you to my simulation of this wonderful airplane and the record transcontinental flight. If there are flight simmers among you or your friends, you might be interested. Http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?ZQlEw0b6=main/forum.htm If not a member, log in and follow instructions for new members. Membership is FREE Under File Libraries, Search File Libraries, My Name "Dave Carroll", find: FS2000 - FS2000 Aircraft FS2000 Pro Hughes H-1B [ Download | View ] Name: h1bdc01.zip Size: 10,180,696 Date: 05-25-2001 Downloads: 890 FS2000 Pro Hughes H-1B. The H-1, designed by Howard Hughes and Richard Palmer and built by Glenn Odekirk, was developed to be the fastest land plane in the world. Piloted by Howard Hughes, the H-1 achieved a new world record speed of 352.322 mph on 09/13/35 (with a shorter wing) and a more remarkable transcontinental record of 332 mph over the distance of 2490 miles between Burbank, CA and Newark, NJ on 01/19/37. By Dave Carroll. (See also H1BDC01A.ZIP and H1BDC01B.ZIP)