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 Hughes H-1 racer was the fastest landplane in the world. On September 13, 1935, Howard Hughes flew the H-1 to a world speed record of 567 km/hr (352 mph) at Santa Ana, California.

The Hughes H-1 is a racing plane that was designed by aviator Howard Hughes and engineer Richard Palmer and built by mechanic Glenn Odekirk to be the fastest landplane in the world.

It is the Hughes 1-B racer, better known as the H-1, which is on view these days in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. In 1935, it set the world record for landplanes—at the then...

1 day ago · Discover how Howard Hughes set the 1937 airspeed record flying coast-to-coast in under 8 hours, redefining aviation with his H-1 Racer.

Jun 18, 2025 · In his article on the Hughes H-1 Racer, Adam Estes highlights the aircraft’s cutting-edge design and record-breaking legacy. Piloted by Howard Hughes, the H-1 set a world speed record in …

On Sept. 13, 1935, one month after its first flight, Howard Hughes flew the H-1 Racer over a specially instrumented course near Santa Ana, Calif., and set a world landplane speed record of 352 mph.

Hughes: "It says the plane with which he set the land speed record was, as the fact indicates, the fastest plane built up to that time is not correct because there had been one or two seaplanes built for the …

13 September 1935: Flying his Hughes H-1 Special, NR258Y, Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Speed Over a 3 Kilometer Course …

In this documentary, we uncover the revolutionary engineering that made the H-1 the fastest aircraft on Earth in 1935.