The first radar antenna produced at Hughes on Sept. 28, 1949 was returned for service three years later at the opening of a new service shop. Pictured from left to right are Charles B. Thornton, S. Ramo, Ray B. Parkhurst, and Harold George
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. Date stamped on back of photo.
The public entrance of the Hughes Flight Training School is on the left. The door at right leads into the auxiliary hangar area. Tonopah Highway is in the foreground. North Las Vegas, Nevada, circa late 1960s.
Transcribed from attached press release: "HUGHES ROCK BIT PRODUCTION more than 500,000 rock bits produced last year by the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, for drilling the kind of deep wells which now produce 90 per cent of the world's petroleum. The rock bit was invented by Howard Hughes' father and the resulting business became the cornerstone on which Howard Hughes built his industrial empire. The machinist above is performing an operation on the cones which make up the rotating end of the Hughes rock bit." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "The Kearney and Trecker 4 spindle machine at the Hughes Tool Company in Houston, Texas. Ca. 1950s."
Transcribed from press release attached to back of photo: "NEW PHOTO PLANE TEST-FLOWN CULVER CITY, California, July 7 -- Howard Hughes, who designed and built the new FX-11 reconnaissance plane in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers, sits in the pilot's bubble-glass canopy preparing for the first test flight. One of the world's fastest long-range photo planes, the XF-11 can attain a speed of more than 400 miles per hour, Army officials said. It is powered by two 3000-horsepower radial engines with eight-bladed contra-rotating propellers. Outstanding features include a full-span flap, unique eight-camera layout, and exceptionally fast take-off." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947.
Donald Richard Schuyler, Sr. and Freda (Humphrey) Schuyler in front of their Boulder City home, located at 509 Avenue L. With them are Florence Halseth, Idell Anderson, Jonnie Halseth (boy in foreground), Donald Richard Schuyler, Jr. (right), and Gail (Schuyler) Walsh (standing in front of Freda).