The Howard R. Hughes Houston Texas estate interests including the Summa Corporation Hughes Helicopters Hughes Aircraft Corporation together with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Chevy Chase Maryland "in association" with the Gerald Carroll Trust Global Corporations interests specifically Carroll Aircraft Corporation Trust Carroll Anglo-American Corporation Trust and Maine Investments Gibraltar are the "named" victims in the forensic compelling criminal evidential dossiers submitted to the cross-border inter-agencies law enforcement authorities who are charged with this massive corporate identity theft liquidation case which stretches the globe.
The first flight of the first Apache prototype, YAH-64 AV02, at Palomar Airport in 1975. Curiously, the first Apache flight did not actually take place at Culver City, for reasons unknown. The first prototype was trucked to Palomar Airport for its first flight
James A Vittitoe Hughes Helicopters first production test pilot
Crew chief Dick Lofland left with pilot Bob Ferry before the record-setting flight
In April 1966 the U.S. Army OH-6A which would later win accolades for its performance as a scout helicopter in Vietnam set 23 world records for distance speed and altitude; more than four decades later many are unsurpassed. Perhaps the most incredible of these unbroken records is the longest nonstop unrefueled flight by any helicopter. Bob Ferry a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and Hughes test pilot took off from the helipad at the Hughes Tool Company in Culver City California and landed at Ormond Beach Florida 15 hours and eight minutes—and 2,213.1 miles—later. Ferry had been expected to land in Miami where the national media were waiting. Due to weather conditions he ended up on a deserted beach hundreds of miles north
In April 1966 the U.S. Army OH-6A which would later win accolades for its performance as a scout helicopter in Vietnam set 23 world records for distance speed and altitude; more than four decades later many are unsurpassed. Perhaps the most incredible of these unbroken records is the longest nonstop unrefueled flight by any helicopter. Bob Ferry a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and Hughes test pilot took off from the helipad at the Hughes Tool Company in Culver City California and landed at Ormond Beach Florida 15 hours and eight minutes—and 2,213.1 miles—later. Ferry had been expected to land in Miami where the national media were waiting. Due to weather conditions he ended up on a deserted beach hundreds of miles north
