Howard Hughes checking the instrument panel of the HK-1 Hughes Flying Boat (400,000 pound, 24,000 horsepower airplane) with his crew before the taxi tests, at Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor.
The official portrait painting of Howard Hughes. In 1998, Russ Stevenson presented the painting, along with many of his other Hughes Airwest files and memoirs, to the Special Collections Library of the University of Texas at Dallas.
58 x 46 cm., on sheet 87 x 102 cm., folded in envelope 30 x 24 cm. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. "Contour interval 40 feet." "Base from U.S. Geological Survey 1:62,500. 1954." "Geology mapped in 1985 and 1988." Includes text, bibliography, 4 col. cross sections, and location and index maps. "Prepared in cooperation with the U. S. Atomic Commission." Original publisher: U. S. Geological Survey, Series: Miscellaneous investigations series, map I, Scale: 1:24 000.