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Howard Hughes receives congratulations from New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at Floyd Bennett Airport in Brooklyn, New York; also featured is Grover Whalen, 1938 July 12
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 06
Archival Component
Howard Hughes in New York after making a high-altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a new two-ounce oxygen mask, 1938 August 20
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 17
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Press release announcing Howard Hughes' purchase of the Sands Hotel
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Hughes Aircraft Company Weapons System Publications
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Abstract
The Hughes Aircraft Company Weapons System Publications (approximately 1965-2011) contain brochures, booklets, photographs, and illustrations of the AWG-9/Phoenix Air Superiority Weapon Control System developed by Hughes Aircraft Company Aerospace Systems Division based in California. The collection contains photographs of various aircraft, as well as a Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track (SNORT) test at the Naval Ordnance Test Station near China Lake, California.
Archival Collection
Hughes Aircraft; Howard Hughes and Aviation, Roots of Hughes, undated
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Hughes Electronics Corporation Records
Box/Folder: Box 11
Archival Component
Hughes H-1 Racer photographs, 1937
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Scope and Contents
Materials depict the Hughes H-1 Racer in 1937. The photographs primarily depict Howard Hughes standing with the plane or in the plane's cockpit. The plane was designed by Glenn Odekirk and built by Hughes Aircraft Company in 1935, the first plane produced by the company. Hughes broke several records in the H-1, including the landplane speed record in 1935. In 1937, Hughes broke his own transcontinental speed record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City, New York in 7 hours, 28 minutes. Despite its speed, Hughes was unable to sell the H-1 to the U.S. military.
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: N/A
Archival Component
Howard Hughes getting out of cabin door of Lockheed-14 at the Floyd Bennett Airport in New York, 1938 July 14
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 06
Archival Component
Howard Hughes at the controls of a Trans World Airlines Constellation demonstrating its new radar safety device, 1947 May 01
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 11
Archival Component
Howard Hughes at the controls of a Trans World Airlines Constellation demonstrating its new radar safety device, 1947 May 01
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs
Box/Folder: Folder 11
Archival Component
Hughes's streamlined Stratoliner for another record-breaking transcontinental flight from Glendale, California, to New York, 1939 August 30
Level of Description
Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
Box/Folder: Folder 18
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