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Crowd at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, 1938 July

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
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Box/Folder: Folder 09

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Crowd at Floyd Bennett Airfield, New York, 1938 July

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
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Box/Folder: Folder 09

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Photograph of Howard Hughes behind his plane at Le Bourget Airfield, France, July 1938

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1938-07

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection

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Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes examining the damaged tail of his plane after his arrival at the Le Bourget Airfield, Paris, on his world flight. July 1938"

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Photograph of the XF-11 prior to its first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947

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1947

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Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs

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Transcribed from press release attached to back of photo: "NEW-DESIGN PHOTO PLANE COMPLETED CULVER CITY, Calif., July 7 -- test-flown today for the first time, the new XF-11 was revealed as one of the world's fastest long-range photographic planes. It was designed and built by Howard Hughes in conjunction with the Air Materiel command engineers. Army officials said that it can attain a speed of more than 400 miles per hour and a ceiling of more than 40,000 feet. The plane has a pressurized cabin making it unnecessary for the crew to use oxygen masks. Outstanding features include a full-span flap, unique eight-camera layout and exceptionally fast take-off." Transcribed from photo sleeve: "Howard Hughes sits in the cockpit of the XF-11, a reconnaissance plane that Hughes built and designed in conjunction with Air Materiel Command engineers. Hughes is preparing for his first test flight in Culver City, California July 7, 1947."

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Howard Hughes's around-the-world flight photographs, 1938

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Materials depict the celebrations of Howard Hughes's circumnavigation flight in 1938. Along with a crew consisting of Harry Connor, Tom Thurlow, Richard Stoddart, and Ed Lund, Hughes flew the Super Electra on a global circumnavigation flight. On July 10, 1938, Hughes and the crew departed Floyd Bennett Field in New York and flew to Paris, France, Moscow, Russia, Omsk, Russia, Yakutsk, Russia, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Minneapolis, Minnesota before landing back in New York on July 14. The photographs primarily depict the parades thrown for Hughes after completion of the flight. The photographs also depict Hughes and his crew meeting with New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia at New York City Hall, the National Press Association, and crowds of onlookers who attended the plane's landings in various cities.

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
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Lockheed 14 in a hangar in New York, 1938 July 09

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
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Box/Folder: Folder 05

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Mechanics with Lockheed 14, New York, 1938 July 10

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection
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Collection Number: PH-00373
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Box/Folder: Folder 05

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Photograph of Howard Hughes waving to crowds in a parade, Houston, Texas, July 30, 1938

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1938-07-30

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Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs

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Howard Hughes waving to crowds in a parade in Houston, Texas in 1938.

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Photograph of Howard Hughes's plane taking off, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 14, 1938

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1938-07-14

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Howard Hughes Public Relations Photograph Collection

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The black and white view of the Lockheed 14 aircraft taking off on a part of Howard Hughes' Around the World flight. Typed onto a piece of paper attached to the image: "The Howard Hughes plane taking off from Minneapolis on their way to New York to complete a round the world flight."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes at a press conference beside his Douglas DC-3, New York, April, 1947

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1947-04

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Howard Hughes Professional and Aeronautical Photographs

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Howard Hughes giving a news Conference beside his airplane after landing in New York. This was his first flight after the nearly fatal XF-11 prototype crash in 1946.

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