The black and white view of unidentified people surrounding the Lockheed 14 aircraft. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Rolling Howard Hughes' plane out of hangar at Floyd Bennett Field, with Lt. Thomas Thurlow, one of the navigators, calibrating the compass. 7/9/38."
The black and white view of crowds surrounding the Lockheed 14 aircraft in Le Bourget Airfield, France. Text printed on the photograph's accompanying strip of paper: As world fliers arrived at Le Bourget, France-- Officials, photographers, and newspapermen, swarming about Howard Hughes' plane, shortly after Hughes and his companions arrived here, completing the transatlantic lef of their sensational flight round-the-world