An overhead view of people looking up and waving during a parade procession.

Howard Hughes walking with several unidentified men in France.

The black and white view of the Lockheed 14 aircraft being surrounded by people at Floyd Bennett Field in New York.

The black and white view of the Lockheed 14 aircraft at the Floyd Bennett Airport in New York. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Readying Hughes' plane for Paris flight. New York City-- Mechanics hastened to put Howard Hughes' Lockheed 14 monoplane in shape for a flight from Floyd Bennett Airport here, to Paris. Motor trouble forced postponement and helpers were working under injunction to have the ship ready for a takeoff, July 9, "at the earliest possible moment." Photo shows: the plane being pulled out of the hangar by a truck. Credit Line (ACME) 7/9/38."

Howard Hughes' flying boat docked near the waters of Los Angeles Harbor, taken July 16, 1947.