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| Date: | 07 14 1938 |
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| Description: | Minutes after finishing their record-breaking flight around the world (in 7 hours and 28 minutes), Howard Hughes and the four aviators who flew with him we... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Hughes, looking every inch the millionaire playboy, with his U.S. Army Boeing pursuit plane. Hughes had rebuilt the plane in order to increase its s... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A publicity still featuring the lead actors in "Test Pilot," an MGM 1938 motion picture release. "Test Pilot" was the story of a reckless commercial test p... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | "Air Circus" (Fox 1928) is the story of two flight school cadets (only David Rollins is pictured) and an accomplished aviatrix, Sue Carol, who can fly ring... |
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| Description: | This photograph labeled only as "Manhunt" by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle shows the interior of a helicopter used during the early stages of U.S.... |
| Date: | 12 29 1987 |
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| Description: | Bored travelers at General Mitchell International Airport, apparently taking their cue from a droopy travel poster advertising vacations in the sunny Carib... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Beaver Dam's favorite son Fred MacMurray (right) co-starred with Ray Milland and Louise Campbell in "Men with Wings," a 1938 Paramount release that traced ... |
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| Description: | Howard Hughes - aviation-obsessed motion picture producer, millionaire playboy, and aircraft business leader - seated in the cockpit of his airplane after ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Smokey Bear cub and his handler, Homer C. Pickens, pose by a Piper Aircraft Corporation airplane named in Smokey's honor prior to flying to Washington, D.C... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Group of soldiers talking on a runway at the Camaguey Airport in Cuba one year after the Cuban Revolution. Juan Almeida Bosque, the operating chief of the ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Luise D'Auvergne (Marguerite Courtot) and Jean-Marie (Owen Moore) board a seaplane in a production still from the Famous Players film "The Kiss." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Six people crawl out of an airplane that is in the water. The scene is part of the film "Foreign Correspondent." |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Scene still of a crashed airplane in the water from the film "Foreign Correspondent." Water is bursting through the screen. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Scene still of people crawling out of and on an airplane in the water from the film "Foreign Correspondent." In the background is a rear projection screen ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson flanked by his wife Ladybird (L) and the widow of assassinated Presid... |
| Date: | 08 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four couples dancing near airplanes, while several other people look on. One person is playing the accordion. Caption reads: "They moved t... |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Charlie Chaplin grinning and shaking hands with a man in a dark suit. They are at an airfield next to a plane. Perhaps this is Chaplin's arrival for the Ne... |
| Date: | 12 16 1966 |
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| Description: | A man in a coat and hat is walking down the airstairs of a plane. Caption reads: "Andrew Depta, of Cable (Bayfield county), set a Gen. Mitchell field recor... |
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| Description: | Lobby card for the 1946 film Johnny Comes Flying Home. Harry Morgan and Charles Russell pilot a plane while Richard Crane stands between them. They are a... |
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