Description given with photograph: "Boulder City, Stray Elks, 1933" Identified in the front row are A.W Ham, Sr., J.D. Smith. In row two, standing: Guss Blad and Bill Scott.
Hughes' aircraft (the XF-11) sitting on the tarmac before its first test flight in Culver City, California in April of 1947. Newspaper clipping taped to the back of the image reads: "#11, Long-Range Plane Completed. Culver City, Calif. -- The new Hughes XF-11 is a very fast photographic plane with a ceiling of more than 40,000 feet. It has a pressurized cabin, making it unnecessary for the crew to use oxygen masks. It is shown here before it made its first test flight."