Hughes D-2
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The Hughes D-2 was a mysterious American fighter and bomber project begun by Howard Hughes. It never proceeded past the flight testing phase but was considered the inspiration for the later Hughes XF-11.
Howard Hughes began the design of an advanced twin-engine, twin-boom interceptor prior to World War II that was similar to the Lockheed P-38 that won the 1939 United States Army Air Corps design competition. Rather than abandoning the project, he later recounted in the 1947 Senate...
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