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Article: Cottage Grove pilot dies in replica of historic plane.(Accidents)(Jim Wright was returning from an airplane show in Wisconsin when he crashed)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2003
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
COTTAGE GROVE - Jim Wright realized his dream last summer of building an exact replica of Howard Hughes' first airplane, then set a world airspeed record for the plane's weight class in September.
But in the end, the dream took Wright's life.
His replica of the Hughes H-1 racer - a one-seater called the Hughes 1B - crashed and exploded in a fireball Monday in Yellowstone National Park, eight miles north of Old Faithful geyser, killing the 53-year-old pilot and machine shop owner.
Wright was on his way home from a weeklong experimental airplane show in Oshkosh, Wis., when the plane crashed about ...
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