Howard Hughes Died on Evel Knievel's Lear Jet??

[User546]

Nonsense, Kneivel never owned a Lear.

Yes he did, that part isn't up for debate!

I was watching a Biography of his life on A&E recently, and they showed a couple photos of him standing next to an older style Lear that had his name and trademark stripes across it. He said at one point he owned two Lears, and they ended up being a big strain on the checkbook. Well that along with his luxury yacht, fleet of exotic sports cars, and multiple mansions!

So the general consensus so far here is that Evel's full of it and Hughes didn't die in the back of his Lear??

 

[bocefus]

Prove it user997, and please provide something more that that bogus article.

 

[erj-145mech]

There is no question that HH was flown to Florida in a Lear and was DOA, but this BS about it being Kneivel's is just that, BS.

NO, he was flown to HOU, not Florida. Specifically to the Intermedics FBO on the south ramp.

 

[bubbers]

We had flown in to Acapulco in a private Jetstar and were staying at the Acapulco Princess when Howard Hughes occupied the top floor

We were asked to fly a sick person to Houston with our jet but they wouldn't tell us who it was for so we declined. Later found out a lear jet from a charter company in Houston flew down to fly him out and he was DOA reaching Houston. Charter company's usually use lease back arrangements from people for charter operations so the actual jet used could belong to countless people.

I think he came from Houston or had family there originally. The Knievel story is probably true.

 

[erj-145mech]

I think he came from Houston or had family there originally. The Knievel story is probably true.

Yes, his father was in the oil business, and thats where Howard started. Hughes invented/developed a rock bit for drilling, starting the Hughes Tool Company. Hughes Tool Company went on to build the Hughes family of helicopters, not the Hughes Aircraft Company, which build experimental aircraft and space vehicles.

 

[LAZYB]

Hughes Aircraft Company, which build experimental aircraft and space vehicles.

which was owned by Hughes Medical before it was sold to GM.

 

[Snakum]

which was owned by Hughes Medical before it was sold to GM.

And subsequently taken over in a hostile stock purchase by Kevin Bacon.




Minh

 

[User546]

Prove it user997, and please provide something more that that bogus article.

What's so bogus about that article? Watch his A&E biography, and you'll hear him tell the same stories almost verbatim - from his own mouth. I don't know how to go about finding photos of his two Lears on the internet, but they showed them a couple times during his TV biography special. He was a man that had all the manly toys! Thus why he went thru $36 million in a only a few years!

Besides, how many people that never owned a Lear or private jet would know what a "Hot Section" was, and then go on to include it in their stories??

 

[Robert]

He died in a Lear alright...

Could be local legend, but a Model 23 Learjet that used to be hangered at FLL when I was a young pup was supposed to be the one he died in. It was N711. That registration was inactive for a time, but since '02 has been on the tail of a C-310Q. It was the first Learjet I ever sat in and I hope it was the one, sick I know, but true. Something about six degrees to Kevin Bacon, or something like that!

Close .. was a Lear 24B Serial 24-199 N855W owned by Robert Graf Inc based KFLL their hangar was by Control Tower (Graf was a charter company owned by Robert Graf .. N855W was his 3rd Lear with same registration

 

[FlyBigE]

danger kitty, i don't get it....