Hughes H-1 Racer
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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
The H-1 Racer at the National Air and Space Museum (below)
The H-1's two-bladed constant speed propeller was still the performance standard
The original H-1 Racer on display at the National Air & Space Museum, November 2014
Jim Wright's H-1 replica, later destroyed in a crash
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration.
Ad Astra sculpture at the museum entrance on the National Mall
The Spirit of St. Louis, flown by aviator Charles Lindbergh in 1927 on the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight
The Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia carried astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins to the Moon and back during the first human lunar landing mission, July 1969
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at the Dedication of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian