The black and white view of Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 aircraft being refueled in Fairbanks, Alaska. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "C.850170 Howard Hughes' plane being re-fueled at Fairbanks, Alaska on the last lap of its round the world flight. 7/15/38."

Stone ruins at the Lost City site (or Pueblo Grande de Nevada), near Overton, Nevada.

Howard Hughes is sitting on the ground examining an architectural drawing of the Hughes Culver City plant. There is a section on "Intake Duct Body Plan."

Crowd of people watching Howard Hughes board an airliner that was heading for Washington.

Boulder City. More distant view of U.S. Navy planes which landed at the National Park Service.

Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947.

From the Bob Paluzzi Panoramic Photographs