Howard Hughes leaving his private hangar as he is wished "happy landings" and well wishes by friends before he boards his speedy Lockheed plane at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California.
Description printed on photograph's accompanying sheet of paper: "Howard Hughes after his round the world flight shaking hands with Secretary of State Cordell Hell as R. Walton Moore Counselor of the Department of State looks on. July 1938."
The view of Howard Hughes (left) and Mayor Fiorello Laguardia (right) seated in an automobile that was used in a parade dedicated to Hughes' completion of his Round the World flight in New York City, New York.