Description given with photo: "Hull of "Hercules" Starts Journey to Assembly Dock, Culver City, Calif. - The 220-foot-long fuselage of Howard Hughes' gigantic airplane crawls down the highway on truck dollies after leaving the Culver City, Calif., plant. the hull is on its way to the graving dock for assembly at Terminal Island, Calif., 28 miles away. Note size of man on top of hull. NY EUR CAN. Credit (ACME) 6/16/46"
Howard Hughes leaving the cockpit of a Northrop Gamma, surrounded by a crowd at Newark New Jersey Airport. Hughes set a coast-to-coast speed record. A bank of microphones and a movie camera are seen beside the plane.
From the Howard Cannon Photograph Collection (PH-00192). L-R: Parry Thomas, W. W. Galloway, ?, HWC, ?. Stamped on verso: "Edward J. Allen Associates, INC. Nevadas Largest Photographic Organization P.O. Box 4253 - Las Vegas Nevada 89106"