SI Neg. 2001-110. Date: na...1/2 left front view of United States Air Force Hughes XF-11 landing, August 5, 1947; Hughes caption attached to photo reverse, ʼCulver City, California, Howard Hughes, famed flier and industrialist, today test-piloted the plane pictured here, a duplicate of the XF-11 photo reconnaissance ship in which he nearly lost his life in an accident last July 7. He designed and built the plane for the Army Air Forces in conjunction with Air Material Comman engineers. He has fully recovered from the injuries sustained last year, when freak propeller...ʼ..Credit: unknown (Smithsonian Institution)

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