The Mysteries of Howard Hughes

Some of the mysterious secrets of the richest American in the 20th century could never revealed, until now.

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was born on December 24th, 1905. He was a famous American aviator, industrialist, film producer/director, philanthropist, and one of the richest people in the world. He was also commonly known for his bizarre behaviour, which was probably caused by his worsening case of Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
His parents were Allene Stone Gano and Howard R. Hughes Sr.. His father was the inventor of the two-cone roller bit, and founded to Hughes Tool Company, which came as a big financial success. They became very wealthy of the invention. When both his parents died, Howard Hughes inherited 75% of the large fortune, at only 19 years old.
Using the money he had inherited, Hughes started his studies on engineering. He learned to fly aircraft in Los Angelos, where he discovered his true love of flying. He then founded the Hughes Aircraft, and started building and testing his own aircraft. On September 13th, 1935, Hughes set a new airspeed record of 566 km/h (352 mph). He also set many other records. But on July 7th, 1946, while testing the new Hughes XF-11 aircraft on it's maiden flight, one of the propellers malfunctioned, and the plane plummeted to the down with Howard Hughes at the controls. He crashed into a Beverly Hilles house, and emerged seriously injured. Luckily, he survived the incident and recovered, but his severe head injuries never wore off. In the course of his life, he cracked his skull three times as results of airplane accidents, and he would heavily rely on painkilling drugs for the rest of his life.
Hughes also worked on airlines. The Trans World Airlines, or TWA, was the airline that Hughes worked on. Originally, the owner of the airline desperately requested help from Hughes, so Hughes secretly bought most of TWA's shares, and he took control. Hughes approached the airline's fleet of Boeing 307 Stratoliners and wanted to change the fleet to a better fleet. So he approached Lockheed, Boeing's major competitor for a new plane. Hughes already had a very good relationship with Lockheed, and Lockheed developed the revolutionary new aircraft Constellation, which TWA bought the first 40 right off the production line. Hughes admired the airline that he rebuilt, but he was eventually forced to sell all his shares of TWA by the government, because of concerns of conflict of interest between owning TWA and Hughes Aircraft. But he continued working with airlines in the 1970s, buying Air West and renaming it Hughes Airwest.
In his earlier years, Hughes went to Hollywood and entered the movie industry. His first two movies were a success, and he used many famous female actors. His most famous and successful movie was Hell's Angels. But in the production of Hell's Angels, Hughes insisted of doing a dangerous airplane stunt himself, resulting in a crash. He emerged from the wreck with minor injuries, but the crash resulted in his first skull fracture. He was the director of many movies, and many of them proved to be a success.
In his later life, Howard Hughes was considered a very strange man. One time, he even concealed himself inside a movie studio, and endlessly watched movies and ate chocolate bars and milk for 4 months. It was the start of his nervous breakdown. This was partly related to his heavy use of drugs. This erratic behaviour worsened with his already bad case of OCD.
Howard Hughes died on April 5th, 1976, at 1:27 pm while on a plane delivering him to the hospital.

Remember this important man, because even though he had some mental problems, he innovated many technologies to help us in the world.

I'll be posting more biographies soon! For now, goo'bye! :)