A replica raring to go.(General News)(A Cottage Grove pilot re-creates Howard Hughes' racing monoplane) From: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) | Date: July 29, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 The Register Guard. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: MARK BAKER The Register-Guard

COTTAGE GROVE - 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 ...

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