Hughes Racer Sculpture
    The Hughes H-1 is a hand crafted "Stainless Steel" Sculpture created by the artist Dave Regier. Dave's extensive body of work in contemporary Polished Stainless Steel Sculpture can be found in galleries located in San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Kansas City. More information about  Dave can be found at www.REGIERSCULPTURE.com or by email at dave@AeroCF.com.
   
     The "Hughes Racer" sculpture incorporates abstract and literal design elements celebrating this aircraft's unique beauty. (25" Wingspan, 13"tall, 40 lbs with base plate.)
     Dave is all ways looking for the next project, including commissions to build sculpture of historic or favorite aircraft.


The Hughes Racer History:
(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-1_Racer )

   The H-1 first flew in 1935 and promptly broke the world landplane speed record with Hughes at the controls, clocking 352 mph (566 km/h) averaged over four timed passes. Hughes apparently ran the aircraft out of fuel and managed to crash-land without serious damage to either himself or H-1. As soon as Hughes exited the H-1 when he crashed it in a beet field, his only comment was: "We can fix her, she'll go faster". At the time, the world seaplane speed record was 440 mph (709 km/h), set by a Macchi M.C.72 in October 1934.The Hughes racer represented a milestone in aviation design.