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Photograph of Howard Hughes installing radar, Culver City, California, May 03, 1947
Date
1947-05-03
Archival Collection
Description
Description given with photo: "Radar Installed on Passenger Planes Culver City, Calif. -- Radar safety control system (cabinet, left, center) for passenger planes, demonstrated by Howard Hughes in a trans-world airline plane, at Culver City, May 1st. Radar, with 500 and 2,000 foot warning signals, tells the pilot when he is approaching obstacles. Equipment is being installed in planes flying routes from San Francisco eastward to Shanghai. Credit (ACME) 5/3/47."
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Howard Hughes; Hughes's lawyer T. A. Slack; John B. Parkinson, representative of the national Advisory Committee for Aeronautics; Edward Schwartz, former member of the Air Force Evaluation Board; E. A. Peterman; and Glen Odekirk, an executive of the Hughes's Plant, 1947 November 08
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 28
Archival Component
Swirsky, Marylou, Hughes Airwest, 1972 August 10
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Parsons, Michelle, Hughes Airwest, 1977 January 24
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Risi, Sue, Hughes Airwest, 1977 March 15
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Hagg, Deborah, Hughes Aviation, 1977 January 03
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 31
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 31
Archival Component
Lazaruk, Molodee, Hughes Airwest, 1977 March 08
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
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Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 06
Archival Component
Hughes Nevada Airport Operations, 1972 February 24
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Frank Mitrani Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00332
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 18
Collection Name: Frank Mitrani Photographs
Box/Folder: Box 18
Archival Component
Flight path map, 1938 July
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00373
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 07
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 07
Archival Component
Photograph of Hughes Flying Boat section being moved to the Los Angeles Harbor, June 15, 1946
Date
1946-06-15
Archival Collection
Description
A section of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.
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