Howard Hughes: Hughes in the Pilot's Seat of the H-4 Hercules
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Hughes, donning a fedora hat, turns to face the camera from the pilot’s seat of the Hughes H-4 Hercules plane, or “Spruce Goose,” as he prepared to taxi the floating plane on the surface of Los Angeles Harbor before taking it on its short, one-mile flight on November 2, 1947.
Photograph courtesy of UNLV Special Collections.