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Photograph of Howard Hughes installing radar, Culver City, California, May 03, 1947
Date
1947-05-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hughes Pilots Radar-Equipped Plane Culver City, Calif. -- First passenger plane equipped with radar is flown in demonstration May 1st by Howard Hughes (left) and co-pilot R.C. Loomis over Culver City. Pilots using this equipment will be warned of approaching obstacles by lights flashing on radar panel. Two lights (lefts) with 2,000-foot range, are used to guarantee clearance over mountains; two lights (right) with 500-foot range, are a safety device for approaches and landings. Either set of lights warns against approaching aircraft. Trans-World Airline plans to install radar on its passenger planes. Credit (ACME) 5-3-47."
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Howard Cannon is greeted upon arrival at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: photographic print
Date
1964-12
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Air Force Photo Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio"
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Howard Cannon attending a luncheon with others at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio: photographic print
Date
1964-12
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Air Force Photo Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio"
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Howard Cannon inspecting the United States Air Force's supersonic bomber, the B-58 Hustler, at the World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
Date
1959-04-12 (approximate) to 1959-04-19 (approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192)
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Photograph of the transportation of Howard Hughes' Hercules, California, June 13, 1946
Date
1946-06-13
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Hercules Wing Squeezes Through Town Redondo Beach, Calif. - School children throng to watch the 34-ton wing section of Howard Hughes' Hercules, world's largest flying boat, as it is cautiously engineered on house-moving dollies through Redondo Beach, Calif., on the way to specially built $200,000 dock at Terminal Island, Calif. Creditline (ACME). 6/13/46."
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Senators Stephen Young and Howard Cannon entering the access door of the Atlas exhibit at the World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print
Date
1959-04-12 (approximate) to 1959-04-19 (approximate)
Archival Collection
Description
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Atlas is ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile).
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Photograph of Howard Hughes and three men, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 14, 1938
Date
1938-07-14
Archival Collection
Description
The black and white view of Howard Hughes (far right) and three unidentified men standing in front of the Lockheed 14 aircraft after landing.
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