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Photograph of the Lockheed 14 aircraft leaving France, July 1938

Date

1938-07

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes as he left Paris for Moscow on the second leg of his round the world flight 7-12-38"

Image

Aerial photograph of an unknown landscape, circa 1938

Date

1938

Description

An aerial photograph possibly showing Fairbanks, Alaska. There is an arrow indicating a place which may be a landing sight for Howard Hughes' Lockheed L-14 Super Electra plane.

Image

Photograph of Captain Jack Le Claire and James M. Landis examining equipment in a TWA aircraft, June 1947

Date

1947

Description

Captain Jack Le Claire (left), TWA pilot, explains the Howard Hughes-designed airline radar "automatic terrain clearance indicator" to James M. Landis, right, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board, June 1947.

Image

2021 addition, approximately 1954 to 2021

Level of Description

Series

Scope and Contents

The 2021 addition series (approximately 1954-2021) primarily contains records and publications on the Surveyor program and other aerospace research programs of Hughes Aircraft Company (HAC). This series also includes records from Warren E. Mathews who served as Director of Product Effectiveness at HAC. The materials from Mathews includes information on HAC's history and organization, interdepartmental correspondence, files on program management, as well as Mathews' personal correspondence and biography. This series also includes recordings of the Peninsula Seniors lecture series on the history of HAC and an archived version of Our Space Heritage 1960-2000 blog which provided a forum for former employees to contribute personal memories of their experiences working at HAC as a way of recording and preserving the company's history.

Archival Collection

Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
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Collection Number: MS-00485
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: N/A

Archival Component