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Howard Hughes

Date: 1930
Description: Portrait of Howard Hughes (1905-1976), aviator, motion picture producer, millionaire playboy, business leader and eccentric. This portrait was probably mad...
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Howard Hughes, Millionaire Fly Boy

Date: 1934
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...
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Howard Hughes

Date: 1932
Description: Howard Hughes on the set of "Sky Devils," a comedy about World War I aviation that starred Spencer Tracy. Hughes reused many of the airplanes he obtained f...
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Howard Hughes in Airplane Cockpit

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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 ...
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Hughes' Air Victory

Date: 07 14 1938
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...
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"Sky Devils" Props

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Description: Vintage World War airplanes used in the filming of "Sky Devils" (1932), a motion picture produced by Howard Hughes.
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Hell's Angels Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Scene at Caddo Field during the filming of "Hell's Angels," Howard Hughes' extravagant World War I aviation film. In this scene, the large vintage Gotha b...
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Aerial Combat Reenacted

Date: 1930
Description: An aerial combat scene from "Hell's Angel's," Howard Hughes' classic 1930 motion picture about the British Air Force during World War I. This film was dis...
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Harlow in "Hell's Angels"

Date: 1930
Description: Production still from "Hell's Angels," the Howard Hughes 1930 film, which launched the career of 18-year-old Jean Harlow. She is shown here with co-stars B...
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Gotha and Film Production Crew and Cast

Date: 1930
Description: A vintage German Gotha airplane brought to Hollywood by Howard Hughes for use in "Hell's Angels," together with members of the Caddo Company's film crew an...
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Tracy Takes Off

Date: 1932
Description: Spencer Tracy in "Sky Devils," Howard Hughes's silly World War I comedy. Tracy (center) and William Boyd play two inept stowaways who end up on a ship that...
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Sikorsky S-29-A

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Description: Right side view of a Sikorsky S-29-A sitting on a runway. The airplane was powered by two 400 hp Liberty L-12 engines. The tail identifier reads: "2756." P...

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