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Photograph of crash of Howard Hughes' XF-11, Culver City, California, July 07, 1946

Date

1946-07-07

Description

An overhead view of the near-fatal crash of Howard Hughes' XF-11 in Culver City, California.

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

Date

1947-04-05

Description

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

Date

1952-10-23

Description

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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Newspaper clippings about Howard Hughes' life, 1946-1976

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00380
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Reference Files
Box/Folder: Box 41, Box 42, Box 43

Archival Component

Spectators surround a Lockheed-14 on a runway at Floyd Bennett Airport, Brooklyn, New York, 1938 July 10

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 07

Archival Component

Photographs related to Howard Hughes and his companies, 1960 to 1999

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Hughes Aircraft Retirees Association Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-01146
Collection Name: Hughes Aircraft Retirees Association Records
Box/Folder: Box 04

Archival Component

Brochures memorializing Howard Hughes' achievements in aviation, 1973-1976

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00485
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 01

Archival Component

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director of Research, 1979-1980

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00485
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 09

Archival Component

Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s

Date

1937 to 1940

Description

A view of an unidentified plane with its propellers protected.

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Photograph of one of Howard Hughes' planes, circa late 1930s

Date

1937 to 1940

Description

A view from below of an unidentified aircraft being hoisted on a crane.

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