when I was a kid, Howard Hughes was incredibly famous, but I suspect anyone between 10 and 20 years old right now would not know who he was. Fame is fleeting for the vast majority of celebs

with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane in 1934

Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its speed, and in 1934, he set a new national record.

https://wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Image/IM10807