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Photograph of Hughes HK-1 during its test run in the Los Angeles Harbor, November 2, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
The Hughes HK-1 Flying Boat during its test run in the Los Angeles Harbor.
Image
Photograph of the Hughes Flying Boat skimming the water in the Los Angeles Harbor, November 2, 1947
Date
1947-11-02
Archival Collection
Description
The Hughes Flying Boat taking off (or landing) in the Los Angeles Harbor, November 2, 1947. Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.)
Image
New York-New York - Entryway, Las Vegas, Nevada: panoramic photograph, 2006
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00419
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01
Archival Component
New York-New York - Exterior, Las Vegas, Nevada: panoramic photograph, 2006
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00419
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01
Archival Component
New York-New York - Interior, Las Vegas, Nevada: panoramic photograph, 2006
Level of Description
Item
Archival Collection
Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00419
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01
Collection Name: Thomas Schiff Panoramic Photographs
Box/Folder: Digital File 00, Oversized Box 01
Archival Component
Aerial photograph of the fuselage of the Hughes Flying Boat being moved to Terminal Island, California, 1946
Date
1946
Archival Collection
Description
A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "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. The airship photographing the scene is shown by shadow.
Image
Photograph of Howard Hughes in the XF-11, after his successful test flight, April 5, 1947
Date
1947-04-05
Archival Collection
Description
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."
Image
General Ira C. Eaker, the Vice President of Hughes Tool Company and Hughes Aircraft, giving an unidentified man an award, approximately 1940-1959
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 16
Archival Component
Unidentified men in the interior of Howard Hughes's Flying Boat prior to initial water taxi tests to be conducted with Hughes at the controls, 1947 November 02
Level of Description
File
Archival Collection
Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00321
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 02
Archival Component