Herb Schaltegger wrote:

There was a great article about this replica and its creator/pilot some
time back in Smithsonian Air & Space. I was very saddened to learn of
the crash.


As the article mentioned, it was going to be in the new movie "The
Aviator"....and they are still going to have the H-1 in the movie, as
the movie trailer shows:
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/ao...he_trlr_dl.mov
...still it went out in a classic Golden Age Of Aviation Air Story way;
crashing into a geyser field in Yellowstone National Park- that's like
something out of "The Rocketeer"!

Pat