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Howard Hughes's HK-1 Hercules traveling down a street in Culver City, California, 1946 June 16

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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 21

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Howard Hughes's HK-1 Hercules traveling down a street in Culver City, California, 1946 June 16

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 21

Archival Component

Howard Hughes's HK-1 Hercules traveling down a street in Culver City, California, 1946 June 16

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 21

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Photograph of the transportation of Howard Hughes' Hercules, California, June 13, 1946

Date

1946-06-13

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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Photograph of Howard Hughes with aircraft technicians with the Northrop Gamma Racer, 1936

Date

1936

Description

The black and white view of Howard Hughes and aircraft technicians next to the Northrop Gamma Racer.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes speaking to the press, Los Angeles, August 03, 1947

Date

1947-08-03

Description

Description given with photo: "Man of the Hour, Los Angeles: Howard Hughes, for whom a subpoena was issued calling for his (?) appearance is Washington, is shown immediate candid shots as he spoke to newsmen. Three wealthy plane manufacturer said he has already put $7,000,000 of his own money into the still unflown 200-ton flying boat which is currently being investigated by a senate subcommittee, and would put in much more before construction is completed. Credit (ACME) 8/3/47."

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Photograph of the transportation of Howard Hughes' Hercules, California, June 13, 1946

Date

1946-06-13

Description

Description given with photo: "Giant Wing Nears End of Journey, Long Beach, Calif. -- Traveling at a snails pace of 2 1/2 miles per hour, hauling truck slowly pulls a wing of Howard Hughes' mammoth plane across a pontoon bridge in the Tideland Oil fields. Almost half the tremendous job of transporting the $200,000,000 flying boat to its destination has been completed. Credit (ACME). 6-14-46."

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Photograph of Frank Merriam, Howard Hughes, and Frank L. Shaw, Los Angeles, 1938

Date

1938

Description

Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "As Los Angeles Welcomed Howard Hughes Home, Los Angeles, Cal. --- Governor Frank Merriam, Howard Hughes, and Mayor Frank L. Shaw (left to right) as they rode through the crowd-packed streets of Los Angeles during the reception -- one of the greatest and wildest the city had ever seen -- as Hughes and his four daring companions on his World-Flight arrived in the city. Credit Line (ACME). 8/2/38."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes checking the Hughes Flying Boat, Terminal Island, Los Angeles Harbor, November 1, 1947

Date

1947-11-01

Description

Howard Hughes checking the instrument panel of the HK-1 Hughes Flying Boat (400,000 pound, 24,000 horsepower airplane) with his crew before the taxi tests, at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor.

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Photograph of the Hughes XF-11 plane at the Hughes Airport, Culver City, California, April 4, 1947

Date

1947-04-04

Description

The XF-11 plane's second flight immediately following take-off, at the Hughes Airport in Culver City, California

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