1933-A new word transcontinental speed record for Howard Hughes
He spent the rest of the 1930s setting multiple world air speed records and building the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 Hercules (the "Spruce Goose"). Hughes was included in Flying Magazine's list of the 51 Heroes of Aviation, ranked at No. 25.
The Gamma with its fully enclosed cockpit, a further development of the successful Northrop Alpha, was a single-engine all-metal monoplane. It shared the Alpha's aerodynamic innovations with wing fillets and multicellular stressed-skin wing construction and fixed landing gear was covered in distinctive aerodynamic spats. Towards the end of its service life, it was developed into the A-17 light bomber.
On 2 June 1933 Frank Hawks flew his Gamma 2A "Sky Chief" from Los Angeles to New York in a record 13 hours, 26 minutes, and 15 seconds. In 1935, Howard Hughes improved on this time in his modified Gamma 2G making the west-east transcontinental run in 9 hours, 27 minutes.
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