The Hughes H-1 Racer is a racing aircraft built by Hughes Aircraft in 1935. Using different wings, it set both a world airspeed record and a transcontinental speed record across the United States. The H-1 Racer was the last aircraft built by a private individual to set the world speed record; most aircraft to hold the record since have been military designs.
29-755: (Redirected from Racers ) [REDACTED] Look up racer or racers in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Racer , The Racer or Racers may refer to: Snakes [ edit ] Alsophis , endemic to the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Arrhyton , found in the Caribbean, known as island racers or racerlets Eastern racer , Coluber constrictor , endemic to North America and Central America Borikenophis , found on
58-434: A 1940s British racing monoplane Powell PH Racer , a 1920s racing aircraft Verville-Packard R-1 , a military racing aircraft first flown in 1919 Verville-Sperry R-3 , a racing monoplane first flown in 1922 Westland Racer , a British racing monoplane first flown in 1926 Air Creation Racer , a French ultralight trike design 1986–2010 Apollo Racer GT , a Hungarian ultralight trike design Corvus Racer 540 ,
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145-403: A Hungarian high performance aerobatic aircraft Airbus RACER , a 2017 experimental high-speed compound helicopter Ships [ edit ] HMS Racer , the name of several Royal Navy ships Racer-class sloop USS Racer , the name of two US Navy ships Racer , later HMS Shelburne (1813) Other transportation [ edit ] Daewoo Racer ,
174-399: A freeware video game simulator Literature [ edit ] The Racer , 1953 novel by Hans Ruesch "The Racer", 1958 story by Ib Melchior , basis of the 1975 film Death Race 2000 Racer (magazine) , an automobile racing magazine Roller coasters and slides [ edit ] West Coast Racers , roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, U.S. Racer (Kennywood) ,
203-414: A fully retractable hydraulically actuated tail skid to reduce the drag of a conventional wheel and maximize speed. It was fitted with a Pratt & Whitney R-1535 twin-row 14-cylinder radial engine of 1,535 cubic inches (25.15 L), originally rated at 700 horsepower (522 kW) but tuned to produce over 1,000 horsepower (750 kW). To contest both maximum speed and long-distance racing records
232-531: A mobile phone RACER Trust , to dispose of General Motors' abandoned real estate See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Racer All pages with titles containing Racer Racing (disambiguation) Racer X (disambiguation) RACER IV , a component of hydrogen bombs made by the United States Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
261-455: A speed potential of 365 mph (587 km/h). Streamlining was a paramount design criterion, resulting in what has been retroactively described as "one of the cleanest and most elegant aircraft designs ever built." Many groundbreaking technologies were developed during construction, including individually machined flush rivets that left the aluminium skin of the aircraft extremely smooth. The H-1 had retractable main landing gear and
290-625: A variant of the Daewoo LeMans compact car Racer , original name of GWR 3031 Class locomotive Glenside Sports [ edit ] The Racer's Group , an American car racing team Akron Racers , an American women's softball club Elgin Racers , an American basketball team Harringay Racers , various British ice hockey clubs Harringay Racers (speedway) , an English motorcycle speedway team 1947–1954 Indianapolis Racers , an American hockey team 1974–1978 London Racers ,
319-409: A wooden racing roller coaster at Kennywood Park, U.S. The Racer (Kings Island) , a wooden racing roller coaster at Kings Island , U.S. The Racer, 82m water slide at Big Banana , Coff's Coast, Australia Racer, a former Cedar Point attraction , U.S. Transportation [ edit ] Aircraft [ edit ] Hughes H-1 Racer , a racing aircraft first flown in 1935 AMSOIL Racer ,
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#1732779598096348-666: The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 , without offering any arguments for that being the case other than "Hughes showed them how it should be done." After the war, Hughes claimed that "it was quite apparent to everyone that the Mitsubishi A6M Zero had been copied from the Hughes H-1 Racer." He claimed the wing shape, tail design and general similarity of the Zero were derived from his racer. Jiro Horikoshi , designer of
377-604: The 2003 AirVenture at Oshkosh, Wisconsin . On his way home to Oregon, he refueled the aircraft in Gillette, Wyoming . Wright met briefly with local reporters and said that the aircraft had been having propeller "gear problems". An hour after taking off, the aircraft crashed just north of the Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park , killing Wright. The replica, slated to be used in
406-464: The 3rd and 4th passes. Exhausting the fuel supply, he crash-landed in a beet field south of Santa Ana without serious damage to either himself or the aircraft. When his compatriots arrived at the crash site Hughes said "We can fix her; she'll go faster." Hughes later made minor changes to the H-1 Racer to make it more suitable for a transcontinental speed record attempt. The most significant change
435-610: The Americas Galapagos racer ( Pseudalsophis biserialis ), endemic to the Galapagos Islands Arts and entertainment [ edit ] Fictional entities [ edit ] The Racer family and Racer Motors, a fictional family and company in the Speed Racer universe Film and television [ edit ] Racers (film) , a 1972 Soviet drama The Racers , 1955 film based on
464-561: The H-1's maiden flight on August 17, 1935, at Grand Central Airport in Glendale, California . A month later, on 13 September at Martin Field near Santa Ana, California , Hughes broke the landplane speed record clocking 352.39 mph (567.12 km/h) averaged over four timed passes. The aircraft was loaded with a minimal amount of fuel to keep the weight down and Hughes was not supposed to make
493-709: The Hans Ruesch novel The Racer (film) , a 2022 sports drama The Racers , working title for the 1961 TV series Straightaway by Racer Productions Race Gurram , 2014 Indian film, released in Hindi as Main Hoon Lucky: The Racer Gaming and toys [ edit ] Star Wars Episode I: Racer , a 1999 video game Lego Racers , a product line of the Lego construction toy Lego Racers (video game) , 1999 Racer (simulator) ,
522-778: The Mitsubishi Zero strongly denied the allegation of the Hughes H-1 influencing the design of the Japanese fighter aircraft. The Hughes H-1 Racer is featured in the 1940 RKO Radio Pictures movie Men Against the Sky , playing the role of a prototype "McLean Aircraft" high-speed pursuit craft. The original H-1 Racer was donated to the Smithsonian in 1975 and is on display at the National Air and Space Museum . Due to
551-554: The National Air Race Museum from 1993 to 1994, after which it was placed in storage. Jim Wright of Cottage Grove, Oregon , built a full-scale replica of the H-1 that he first flew in 2002. His replica was so close to the original that the FAA granted it serial number 2 of the model. His achievement in recreating the aircraft was heralded in many aviation magazines. On August 4, 2003, Wright unveiled his H-1 replica at
580-806: The Puerto Rican archipelago and the Virgin Islands Cubophis , found in the northwestern Caribbean Drymobius , neotropical racers, endemic to the Americas Hispaniola racer ( Haitiophis anomalus ), endemic to Hispaniola Hypsirhynchus , found on Jamaica, Hispaniola, and the Bahamas Philodryas , green racers, found in South America Ialtris , endemic to Hispaniola Masticophis , whip snakes or coachwhips, endemic to
609-499: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 219093724 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:39:58 GMT Hughes H-1 Racer During his work on his 1930 movie Hell's Angels , Howard Hughes employed Glenn Odekirk to maintain the fleet of over 100 aircraft used in
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#1732779598096638-606: The film The Aviator , was destroyed. The official accident report detailed the failure of a counterweight on the constant speed propeller . On December 17, 2003, Cottage Grove State Airport was dedicated as Jim Wright Field. Other non-flying replicas are displayed at the Thomas T. Beam Engineering Complex at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (donated by the Howard Hughes Corporation in 1988) and
667-607: The flight was 322 mph (518 km/h). Considering that contemporary service aircraft were still biplanes , Hughes fully expected the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to embrace his aircraft's new design and make the H-1 the basis for a new generation of U.S. fighter aircraft. His efforts to persuade the Air Corps failed. In postwar testimony before the Senate, Hughes indicated that resistance to
696-663: The innovative design was the basis for the USAAC rejection of the H-1, "I tried to sell that airplane to the Army but they turned it down because at that time the Army did not think a cantilever monoplane was proper for a pursuit ship ...". Aviation writer William Wraga asserts that the H-1 Racer inspired later radial engine fighters such as the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt , the Mitsubishi A6M Zero and
725-696: The ongoing construction project at the NASM, the Hughes Racer is being kept on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA . The wings and fuselage have been separated for space reasons. A static replica H-1 was displayed on a pole alongside Hughes' " Spruce Goose " at Long Beach when the latter aircraft was displayed in a dome adjacent to the Queen Mary until 1992. It was later displayed in
754-457: The original short-span high-speed wings were replaced with a set of longer ones for long-distance flights. Before the H-1 took to the air, the world absolute speed record was 440.7 mph (709.2 km/h), held by a Macchi M.C.72 seaplane and set in October 1934. The landplane record was 314.32 mph (505.85 km/h), averaged by Raymond Delmotte in a Caudron C.460 . Hughes piloted
783-566: The production. The two men shared a common interest in aviation and hatched a plan to build a record -beating aircraft. The aircraft was given many names, but is commonly known as the H-1. It was the first aircraft type produced by the Hughes Aircraft company. Design studies began in 1934 with an exacting scale model (over two feet in length) that was tested in the California Institute of Technology wind tunnel, revealing
812-481: The title Racer . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Racer&oldid=1242526786 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages racer Too Many Requests If you report this error to
841-416: Was the fitting of a new set of wings of increased span, giving it a lower wing loading . On January 19, 1937, a year and a half after setting the landplane speed record in the H-1, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying non-stop from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds, smashing the previous time of 9 hours, 27 minutes by two hours. His average speed over
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