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Hughes tried for the record on 13 August 1935, ominously a Friday the thirteenth, as Amelia Earhart officially flew cover to make sure he did not break the rules. Hughes set the record by flying 352.388 miles per hour, crushing the old record set by France's Caudron racer. Hughes's next goal was to fly the H-l nonstop across America. He had Palmer and Odekirk redesign the plane and add new fuel tanks, navigational equipment, and oxygen. On 19 January 1937 Hughes left for New York. He left at 2:14 A.M. and traveled eastward using oxygen and riding the airstream at incredible speeds. The plane touched down in Newark seven hours and twenty-eight minutes later. On the flight Hughes averaged 327.1 miles per hour, and his record stood until 1946. Hughes won the Harmon International Trophy for best aviator of the year in 1937 from President Roosevelt at the White House and decided to attempt...
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