Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes in New York after making a high altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a two-ounce oxygen mask."
Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada
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Collection Number: PH-00022 Collection Name: Virginia "Teddy" Fenton Photograph Collection on the Hoover Dam and Boulder City, Nevada Box/Folder: Folder 02
Description given with photograph: "Howard Hughes in New York after making a high altitude flight from Los Angeles during which he tested a new two-ounce oxygen mask."
Narrator affiliation: Physicist, First director, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory; Arms control negotiator; Director, Defense Dept. Research adn Engineering
The black and white view of radio operators assisting Howard Hughes on his flight. Text printed on accompanying paper strip: "Keeping in touch with Hughes' flight. L to R: Standing -- Charles Perrine and Al Lodwick. Seated are radio operators Gordon Gregory and Gus Kovatz. 7/13/38 Press Association."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes landing at Fairbanks 8:18 p.m. after flight from Moscow in 12 hrs., 17 mins. - distance 2457 mi. Distance flown from New York: 11, 188 mi. Elapsed time from New York, 72 hrs., 58 min. Flight time, 54 hrs., 39 min."
Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Hughes' Lockheed plane surrounded by police as it is taken out of the hangar at Le Bourget Field, Paris, for the flight to Moscow. July 1938"