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Hughes became interested in aviation while filming Hell's Angels. Often, when his hired stunt pilots would refuse to risk death for the movie, Hughes would take a plane up himself and do the maneuver. In the early 1930s Hughes hired two men, Richard Palmer and Glenn Odekirk, who helped him realize his dream of breaking the air-speed record. The men began in 1934 to build a plane that would be the fastest in the world and possibly interest the army. By 10 August 1935 the new plane, known as the Hughes 1-B racer, or the H-l, was completed. The plane was completely aerodynamic, and each screw on the plane's surface was tightened so that the slot was exactly in line with the airstream. It was a dream plane, and Hughes decided to go for the record immediately.
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