Hells Angels crash

Legend holds that when all of the professional pilots refused to attempt a particular stunt(a low altitude dive past a camera tower) Hughes stepped in and flew it himself. He got the shot but couldn't pull out. He crashed just as the pilots had predicted. The impact bounced his face off of the rim of the cockpit. The first people on the scene of the wreck found the crumpled bi-plane empty and followed a trail of blood to a nearby hanger. There they found a battered Hughes babbling about his golf game. He collapsed into unconsciousness with a skull fracture. He came to later in a hospital jumped out of the bed and ran out the door, much to the shock of the attendants. Howard kept the propeller from the wrecked bi-plane as a macabre reminder of this brush with death.

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