From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Harley Harmon (2nd from left), James Bilbray, Grant Sawyer, John Mendoza (8th, 9th, 10th from left, respectively)
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). United States Air Force's supersonic B-58 bomber was called the Hustler. Senators at the World Congress of Flight.
Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947.
Description given with photograph: "Hughes sets new transcontinental transport mark. Floyd Bennet Field, NY--- Howard Hughes, millionaire flier, setting his famous round-the-world transport plane down here, early August 20th, after a record-smashing flight from Los Angeles. Hughes and three companions completed the trip in 10 hours 32 minutes and 20 seconds, shattering the record of 11 hours and five minutes set four years ago by Tommy Tomlinson. The flight was made most of the way in the substratosphere at an average altitude of 17, 000 feet. Credit Line ACME."