Inscription with image reads: "View of the "Lake", the trip eight-meter racing boat recently launched on Lake Mead by its owners, Messrs. Breese of Chicago and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Jasper Morgan, boat designer. The owners are enthusiastic over possibilities of numbers of similar sailing craft being launched on Lake Mead in the future. Photo by Bureau of Rec."
The black and white view of the Lockheed plane is shown as it taxied to a stop at Le Bourget Airfield near Paris, after a record-shattering flight across the Atlantic.
Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES TEST-PILOTS SECOND XF-11. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5. Preparatory to making its first flight test today, Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, is shown in the cockpit of the second XF-11 sister ship to the plane in which he almost lost his life in an accident last July 7. Hughes designed and built the ship, one of the world's fastest long-range reconnaissance planes for the Army Air forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers."