h1-crash Sept. 13,1935 by Howard Hughes photo collection on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Beet field after breaking the speed record. This plane is in the air and space museum at the Smithsonian. Not commonly mentioned, the auxiliary fuel tank was completely full when Hughes’ plane ran out of gas, but he couldn’t switch over to it . Upon post crash examination a bit of copper wire was found holding a piece of steel wool over the opening.