Panam aircraft at Hughes Airport.

Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES TEST-PILOTS SECOND XF-11. CULVER CITY, Calif., April 5. Preparatory to making its first flight test today, Howard Hughes, famed flier-industrialist, is shown in the cockpit of the second XF-11 sister ship to the plane in which he almost lost his life in an accident last July 7. Hughes designed and built the ship, one of the world's fastest long-range reconnaissance planes for the Army Air forces in conjunction with the Air Materiel Command engineers."

The black and white view of the Lockheed plane is shown as it taxied to a stop at Le Bourget Airfield near Paris, after a record-shattering flight across the Atlantic.

Black and white image showing an exterior view of the Manual Training School in Las Vegas. The postcard is made out to Bob Eglington, 347 Penn. Avenue, Los Gatos, CA. It is postmarked October 5th, 1938. The message reads, "Hope you're getting along O.K. We're getting things done gradually. May not be back until Mon. so don't be worried, so much yet to do. Mother." Site Name: Manual Training School (Las Vegas, Nev.)

A view of the controls of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat in Long Beach, California. Howard Hughes is on the right.