Photographs from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s) (PH-00388-05). Students in lab are Diane Yost (glasses), Lucy Leblance (gray shirt and white shorts) and Rebecca Kolstad (brown shirt.)
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.