Cottage Grove pilot dies in replica of historic plane.(Accidents)(Jim Wright was returning from an airplane show in Wisconsin when he crashed)

From: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | Date: August 6, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard

COTTAGE GROVE - Jim Wright realized his dream last summer of building an exact replica of Howard Hughes' first airplane, then set a world airspeed record for the plane's weight class in September.

But in the end, the dream took Wright's life.

His replica of the Hughes H-1 racer - a one-seater called the Hughes 1B - crashed and exploded in a fireball Monday in Yellowstone National Park, eight miles north of Old ...

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