Description given with photo: "Non-Stop Los Angeles - New York Flight Inaugurated New York -- View of the crowd around the "Star of California" waiting for passengers -- most of them after it landed at LaGuardia Airport Feb. 15. Piloted by Howard Hughes, famed Around-The-World record holder and a TWA executive, the flight in-augurated non-stop schedule between Los Angeles and New York. The TWA Constellation made the trip in 8 hours and 38 minutes, as compared with the record of 7 hours, 27 minutes. Credit (ACME) 2/15/46."
The black and white view of Howard Hughes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes at Minneapolis to refuel before leaving for Floyd Bennett Field to complete a round the world flight."
The black and white view of Howard Hughes in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes as he waited for refueling at Minneapolis before starting his home stretch flight to Floyd Bennett Field to complete round the world flight."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Next stop-- Moscow! Le Bourget, France---- After making minor repairs, Howard Hughes and his companions took off from Le Bourget, to complete their record-smashing circuit of the globe in 3 days and 19 hours. The photo shows the Hughes plane, 'World's Fair, 1939,' propellers whirling, just before the takeoff for Moscow, second leg of the world flight."
Scale [ca. 1:3,231,360. 1 in. to approx. 51 miles] (W 125°00--W 103°30/N 42°00--N 31°45) ; 1 map : hand col. ; 40 x 60 cm., on sheet 46 x 68 cm ; Relief indicated by hachures and spot heights ; Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington, D.C ; Decorative border ; Hand colored ; Atlas p. numbers in upper margin: 58-59 ; Date est. from territorial borders and county configuration ; Shows natural features, locations of Indian tribes, proposed railroad routes, routes of explorers, trails, county boundaries and populated places ; Johnson and Ward
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes (right) is shown with co-pilot Glenn E. Odekirk after their one stop flight from Seattle to Glendale."