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[edit] Medical stuff

What is the last para about medical stuff? Why would it be a conflict of interest, why is it his greatest legacy? Mat-C 21:03, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This policy is actually more ethical than the drug companies, say, which create medicines, sell them to hospitals and other caregiving organizations, and also create academic papers and drug tests which certify that the medicines are efficacious. This is a conflict of interest, because there are no checks and balances. Contrast this to the Medical Institute, which funds medical researchers. When the aircraft company existed, it could easily have built X-ray machines, MR machines, cancer detectors, etc. but chose not to, to avoid even the appearance of a conflict of interest.

But the Medical Institute, instead, funds researchers, quite generously. Now suppose one of the researchers found the secret of curing cancer, or for immortality and unbounded good health with no senescence. The public would be beating down the doors with orders for a product XYZ sold by any company which promised unbounded good health with no senescence, and such a company, if it were owned by the Medical Institute, would have a conflict of interest with a Medical Institute which published a statement that XYZ produces unbounded good health with no senescence.

The Medical Institute may have a license agreement with the researchers, much like the license that Stanford has with Google. I do not know if the researchers have such agreements with the Medical Institute.

Of course, it would be the happy duty and job of a research who had discovered the secret of immortality, to publish those findings, and the Medical Institute would then share in the glory of such a scientific discovery. Ancheta Wis 21:40, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I am disputing the claim that the Hughes Culver City was in Westchester. Westchester was indeed part of the large residential area for the employees of Hughes Culver City, as was Inglewood, the South Bay and Westside. It may be that since the postal address of the Company, Centinela and Teale, Culver City, Calif had the name of Culver City in the address, (no street number during the World War II days), and that may well be how that site for Hughes Aircraft became known. This large swath of real estate, extending from the Centinela valley to the beach now known as Playa del Rey was not part of the City of Los Angeles at that time, and was the basis for Hughes' billion dollar fortune. At the time that Hughes was building his Racer, this area was much less densely populated, where in fact farming was still occurring. Westchester now refers to the residential area on the hills south of the wetland that Hughes used for his airstrip. After Hughes' death, a large headquarters building was constructed, during the GM days, which now belongs to Loyola Marymount. I concede that that HQ building can be considered to be Westchester, but not the wetlands or floodplain. There were multiple sites for Hughes Aircraft:

• Culver City - Aerospace Group, and also Hughes Helicopters
• El Segundo - Electro-Optical & Data Systems, and also the Space & Communications Group
• Canoga Park - Missile Systems Group
• Malibu - Hughes Research Labs
• Torrance - Electron Devices
• Airport ¹ and eventually Long Beach - Training Systems and Aircraft Simulators
• Newport Beach - microelectronics
• Tucson AZ - Missile Systems Group
• Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara Research Center

As you can see, Westchester was not in the list. Ancheta Wis 00:57, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Note

Note 1:This Airport Area was next to the site for Los Angeles International Airport, which is next to Westchester, physically, on Century Boulevard.

[edit] Toolco Aircraft

No such company ever existed. It was Hughes Tool Co. Aircraft Division. And there may or may not have been a colon in between "Co." and "Aircraft".

I've found a reference for the Hughes Tool Co. and its various incarnations at Boeing's site under history.

• 1953, Hughes created the Hughes Medical Institute and gave the Hughes Aircraft Co. as its sole asset.
• 1955, Hughes separated the helicopter unit out of the Aircraft Co. and joined it to Hughes Tool Co. as the Aircraft Division. It was during this time that the OH-6 was developed and produced.
• 1972, the Aircraft Division was reformed as the helicopter division of the Summa Corp. when Hughes sold the Hughes Tool Co.
• 1981, it became Hughes Helicopters Inc. [1]
• 1984, Hughes Helicopters Inc. became a part of the McDonnel Douglass Corporation.
• 1985, it was renamed McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. and then later that year, it was renamed again to McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems.

(Born2flie 13:54, 16 July 2006 (UTC))- Added by BillCJ 06:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)