Howard Hughes H-1 Racer: The Inspiration for the Mitsubishi Zero?
Streamlining this aircraft was a paramount design criterion, resulting in what has been retroactively described as "one of the cleanest and most elegant aircraft designs ever built. Many groundbreaking technologies were developed during construction, including individually machined flush rivets that left the aluminium skin of the aircraft extremely smooth. The H-1's design was said to be the inspiration for the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero and the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.
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