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Auction History Result 2p1884 HOWARD HUGHES 8x10 still 1935 c/u in cockpit of his Boeing pursuit plane by Chas E. Bulloch! Date Sold 8/2/2022 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical 8" x 10" [20 x 25 cm] Movie Still (Learn More) Howard Hughes was the director/producer/businessman/aviator (he was nicknamed "The World's Greatest Womanizer") known for his casinos, his strange behavior, and for his airplane Hercules (nicknamed "The Spruce Goose"). He produced several movies including the classics Scarface, Hell's Angels, His Kind of Woman, and The Outlaw. Entire books can and have been written about his life beyond the movies that he made, but he was a world champion aviator, setting both the speed record for an airplane in 1937, and in 1938 setting the fastest around-the-world flight record! Towards the end of his life he was a complete recluse, in ill health, and living in the penthouse of one of his Las Vegas properties, and it was unclear if he was in his right mind and whether he was running his empire, or if his top employees were. Either way, brilliant decisions were made, because they sold all his casinos and bought most of the land surrounding Las Vegas, which turned out to be one of the greatest financial investments ever! He passed away in 1976 at the age of 70. Important Added Info: Note that we previously auctioned a news photo showing a closer image of Hughes in the cockpit of this plane, and that one had a snipe on the back (but no photographer's credit, as this one has). The snipe on that one said that Hughes had just bought a Boeing Army Pursuit Plane, and that he was the only individual in the country who had been allowed to buy one (the rest were used by the Army Air Force), and that it had a 580 horsepower Wasp=Whitney motor that could go 225 miles an hour, and that Hughes had purchased it for $30,000 (in 1935 dollars!), and that he was using the plane for "business and pleasure flights". Condition: good. There is light staining in the top 2" of the still. Learn More about condition grades 
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