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Photograph of Howard Hughes in the XF-11, after his successful test flight, April 5, 1947

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1947-04-05

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Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES TEST-PILOTS SECOND XF-11. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5. Preparatory to making its first flight test today, Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, is shown in the cockpit of the second XF-11 sister ship to the plane in which he almost lost his life in an accident last July 7. Hughes designed and built the ship, one of the world's fastest long-range reconnaissance planes for the Army Air forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers."

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whh000311

Physical Identifier

0321_0324
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    whh000311. Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs, 1916-1997. PH-00321. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d1xs5jq03

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    Digitized materials: physical originals can be viewed in Special Collections and Archives reading room

    Date Digitized

    2012-09-05

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    5319 x 4270 pixels
    8.87 x 7.12 inches
    64,970,000 bytes

    Language

    English

    Publisher

    University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries

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