Typewritten on back of photo:""Question Mark" endurance flight plane getting her first load of gas shortly after taking off from Los Angeles, California. January 1, 1929. Please credit Official U.S. Air Force photo." "11239A.S." in lower right corner of photograph.
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.