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Howard Hughes in Airplane Cockpit
Howard Hughes - aviation-obsessed motion picture producer, millionaire playboy, and aircraft business leader - seated in the cockpit of his airplane after a test flight. In this plane, a Boeing pu...
Howard Hughes
1932
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 for the 1930 production of "Hell's Angels."...
Hell's Angels Scene
1930
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 brought to Hollywood from Germany by Hughes...
Howard Hughes, Millionaire Fly Boy
1934
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 speed, and in 1934, he set a new national r...
Harlow in "Hell's Angels"
1930
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 Ben Lyon and James Hall, wearing a revealin...
Gotha and Film Production Crew and Cast
1930
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 and several members of the cast in the plane...
