Congratulations X-Plane® enthusiast! You are the proud owner of the Howard
Hughes H-1A prototype. This aircraft is far from complete and has been undergoing
extensive changes since the summer of 2005. There will be continual updates as time
goes on. There will be different variants of this amasing aircraft too, like a float-plane,
military fighter, and a modified race plane. For now this is a design freeze for version
7.63, all further updates will be in version 8.40 on up. Partially the reason for moving to
version 8.40 is that the propeller dynamics and the flight model are much more refined.
We feel this aircraft must be represented well in X-Plane, and by moving forward in sim
versions we feel there can be major improvements in the flight and 3-D model.
This project is the outcome of a lot of research and time dedicated in the simulator
just to get things accurate. The level of realism is directly proportional to the information
received, time spent flight testing / designing, and decent guesswork. This version of the
H-1A is by no means canon or accurate to the real aircraft. We are sorry to say, there
wasn’t proper information accrued for this project, no accurate blueprints or performance
data tables were found. We did the best we could do to design the flight model similar to
rumors, stories, and information bench marked from the original Hughes Racer and the
Racer Team Replica. The Racer Team had masterfully reconstructed their H-1B from
scratch by reverse-engineering the original in the Smithsonian. This aircraft has an aura
of mystery enveloping her. She being an unobtainable enigma or fleeing ghost, now which
remains to be seen. This is definitely a one-of-a-kind airplane and we really hope you
enjoy your time with her, as do we in the development of this beautiful sculpture.
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