Now and Forever
You\u2019re listening to Artie Wayne with Freddy Martin and His Orchestra and\u2026
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\nWhile Howard Hughes\u2019 aviation career is popularly associated with \u201cThe Spruce Goose\u201d, the Hughes H-1 Racer set the landplane air-speed record in 1935, and it occupies a place in history that exists now, and may very well forever. Speaking of that, you\u2019re listening to Now and Forever, from Tchaikovsky\u2019s Sixth Symphony. It was used in the 1943 film, \u201cThe Outlaw\u201d, which Hughes produced.
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\nAs for\xa0 particular place in history: when the H1 broke the record by travelling at 352 mph, it was the last civilian plane to break it.
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\nAs we know from Leonardo Dicaprio, and researchers, of course, Hughes was a man consumed with success. Upon crash-landing the H1 in its initial test run, he stepped from the downed plane and announced \u201cWe can fix her; she\u2019ll go faster\u201d.