Description given with photo: "Before Surprise Flight, Long Beach, Calif.: No longer land-locked, Howard Hughes' 200-ton flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free in Los Angeles harbor after being floated for the first time. The builder and pilot later took the controversial plane into the air for a surprise one-mile flight during taxing trials. Credit (ACME) 11-3-47."
Wilbur Clark (3rd from left) with group of men outside the Rocky Marciano Training Camp, Gossinger, New york, circa 1950s. Pictured L-R: Eugene Murphy, Max Houston, Wilbur Clark, Harold Clark (Wilbur's brother), Chic Ross. (Photo credit: Bill Mark)