Cottage Grove, Ore., Pilot Recreates Howard Hughes' Racing Monoplane.

From: The Register Guard (Eugene, Oregon) (via Knight-Ridder/TribuneBusiness News) | Date: July 29, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Mark Baker

Jul. 29--COTTAGE GROVE, Ore.--Howard Hughes has been dead for 26 years, three months and 24 days, but it seems his soul, his plane and the man who has seized both are flying high above the skies of this city.

If you look at the black-and-white photographs hanging in the hangar behind Jim Wright's machine tool shop, then look up in the sky, you see the same sleek plane. The same brown-leather helmet snug upon the scalp of the man in the cock...

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