The pictured Chamber of Commerce and Area-Wide Committee representatives met undersecretary Richard Searles, Senator Ernest W. McFarland, Reclamation Commissioner Michael Straus, and others at the Boulder City, Nevada airport April 30, 1952. From left to right: Max Kelch (chairman of the area-wide committee), Elton M. Garrett (secretary of the area-wide committee), Lillian Collins (secretary of the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce), Earl Brothers, Chester K. Tyree (President of the Boulder City Chamber of Commerce).
Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes is welcomed by New York on return from Round the World flight. Grover Whalen is on the left. 7/15/38."
The XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Material Command engineers, sits in a field. Automobiles with cameras on top are parked, ready to chase the plane on its test flight.