Today, 87 years ago, on July 15, 1938 (Calendar, June 18, 1938), Howard Hughes set a new world flight record. Young Hughes was preparing to take off on July 15, 1938. Millionaire pilot Howard Hughes was very popular in New York after creating a new world flight record. Hughes and his four crew members landed at Brooklyn¡¯s Freud-Bennett Airport after a flight of 3 days and 19 hours and 17 minutes. The purpose of this flight was to promote the 1939 World Expo. Their double-engine Lockheed aircraft had an average speed of 208 miles per hour. The aircraft flew 14824 miles, during a flight of 3 days and 19 hours and 17 minutes to Paris, Moscow, Siberia, Omsk and Jacuzzi, Fairbanks, Alabama, Alabama, Alabama, and other destinations. The