Discover America's first billionaire, Howard Hughes and the astounding limits of technology that he continually advanced past. Hughes developed war machines, spy aircraft, and commercial airliners. Engineers, operating under his guidance, enjoyed great success developing guided missiles and satellites for military and commercial uses. Hughes' companies made the Apache military helicopter, a space probe that mapped Venus by radar, and Galileo, the first spacecraft to penetrate Jupiter's atmosphere. Whenever you board a commercial airliner, watch television via satellite, or marvel at America's military might, you might do well to remember the man who was at heart an aviator obsessively dedicated to both the art and the science of flight and advancement of technology.