Hughes XF 11 Free low-poly 3D model

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Howard Hughes engineered the XF-11 as a reconnaissance aircraft for the United States Army Air Forces, personally flying each test run. Although 100 of the model F-11 were contracted in 1943, only two prototypes and a dummy plane came to fruition by completion date. The initial flight of the XF-11 was cut short in 1946 when Howard Hughes inadvertently crashed it in Beverly Hills, California. As fate would have it, production had been halted five years prior due to the model's highly troubled beginnings. Not before then though did the second prototype successfully complete its first flight run back in 1947; an unspoken relief given all the chaos the project had drawn with numerous officials within U.S. governmental circles becoming increasingly agitated. An investigation was soon sparked by this same public furor when they looked to hold those behind this costly and questionable development accountable for such an unnecessary expenditure during 1947–1948.