Description given with photograph: "Hughes's Stratoliner is ultimate in Streamline. Glendale, Calif.--- To give one an idea of just how far aeronautical designers can go with the streamlining effect, this above view of Howard Hughes' newest four-motored, $250,00 Stratoliner is pictured from the tail end of the big plane as it stood on the runway at the Grand Central air terminal at Glendale, Calif. The millionaire flier is believed to be preparing for a new caost-to-coast record. 8-30-39""
A view of a crowd consisting of thousands of people who attended a parade that celebrated Howard Hughes completion of his flight round-the-world flight in New York City.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Group at [Gover] Whalen's home 7/14/38. (Daily News)." Howard Hughes is standing third from the left.
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). Stamped on verso: "Official United States Air Force Photograph - Anderson AFB Washington 25, D.C."
Howard Hughes giving a news conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Howard Hughes being carried ashore after arrival in amphibian airplane at U.S. Coast Guard Station, Jamaica Bay, B.W.I.