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Howard Hughes preparing to fly the XF-11 prototype, 1947

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
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Box/Folder: Folder 23

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Howard Hughes in New York, New York, 1946 September

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Howard Hughes talking to an unidentified man, approximately 1943-1945

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Howard Hughes and two other people, approximately 1935-1939

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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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Photograph of Howard Hughes with XH-17 helicopter, Culver City, California, October 23, 1952

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1952-10-23

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L-R: Rea Hopper, Director of the Aeronautical Division, Hughes Aircraft Company; Howard Hughes; Clyde Jones, Director of Engineering, Hughes Tool Company Aeronautical Division; Warren Reed, Assistant; Col. Carl E. Jackson, Air Research and Development Headquarters, Baltimore; Gale J. Moore, pilot; and unidentified pilot in front of the experimental helicopter XH-17 Flying Crane on October 23, 1952. This was one of Hughes' last public appearances.

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Howard Hughes at the controls of the HK-1 Hercules, 1947 November 02

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28

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Howard Hughes at the controls of the HK-1 Hercules, 1947 November 02

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28

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Howard Hughes at the controls of the HK-1 Hercules, 1947 November 02

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28

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Howard Hughes, Terminal Island, California, 1947 November 02

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28

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