Howard Hughes with his flight engineer and Dave Evans, radio operator, preparing for the Flying Boat's taxi test the next day. The group is shown on the flight deck of the 24,000 horsepower craft. The Flying Boat was assembled on Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Howard Hughes being carried ashore after arrival in amphibian airplane at U.S. Coast Guard Station, Jamaica Bay, B.W.I.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: Howard Hughes being carried ashore after arrival in amphibian airplane at U.S. Coast Guard Station, Jamaica Bay, B.W.I.
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.
Transcribed from press release: "HUGHES TEST DERRICK This 118-foot field-size oil derrick tower above a block-long laboratory in Houston, Texas, where the Hughes Tool Company simulates every drilling condition in the world in order to produce tough, long-lasting drill bits for the oil industry. Rock bits are responsible for tapping of deep oil fields where today 90 per cent of the world's oil is found."