The black and white view of people surrounding the Lockheed 14 aircraft in France. Text printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Part of the crowd that greeted Howard Hughes and his globe girdlers as they landed in Paris on the first lef of a round-the-world flight."
Howard Hughes giving a news Conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.