The Museum will be closed January 12th - January 16th in preparation for our new Special Exhibition Ripley's Believe It or Not!. Museum reopens Saturday January 17th. New Exhibit opens January 31st!
The Horton Wingless aircraft was invented by William Horton of Huntington Beach, California in 1952. He called the strange-looking plane “wingless” because he claimed the entire craft was a simple air foil with vertical fins and utilized all surfaces for lift.
Howard Waldorf began his career as a World War I test squadron pilot, afterwards entering journalism where he would eventually come to be known as one of the foremost aviation writing specialists.
Hugh Baumann was a US Navy aviator who was trained at NAS North Island in 1945. He served in the Korean War aboard two Navy carriers and later the commanding officer for Fighting Squadron 74.
200 JPGS of the Hughes H-1 Racer at the Smithsonian Institution. These images were used to help build the H-1 reproduction at the San Diego Air and Space Museum.
Hugo Mohrlock has extensive experience in aerospace engineering. He was a design engineer for McDonnell Aircraft for one year, followed by three years at Emerson Electric as a design engineer in armament electronic system design. He was associated for over nineteen years with General Dynamics and its predecessor companies.
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