A newsreel titled 'Lunches in Chi. Hops to L.A. For his dinner.' Howard Hughes, famed industrialist and aviator, is seen dressed in a suit and tie, seated in a Chicago restaurant having lunch. He finishes and leaves. The next scene shows nose of a Northrop Gamma 2G airplane with engine running. A brief glimpse of Hughes,still in suit and tie, wearing leather flying helmet with goggles pushed up on his forehead. With Hughes piloting, the airplane taxis and takes off from Chicago. It is seen in a gentle left bank as it departs. Later, Hughes is seen landing at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California. Hughes is seen in opened cockpit as he taxis in to the parking ramp. He taxis past a Stinson hangar, parks, and climbs down from the aircraft. He is accompanied by a number of men as he walks across the parking ramp. (Note: Howard Hughes is flying a modified Gamma 2G airplane, number NC13761,that he leased from famous woman aviator, Jacqueline Cochran, who ordered it powered by a liquid-cooled 700-hp Curtiss Conqueror engine,driving a two-blade propeller. Hughes modified it with a 1000-hp Wright SR-1820-G2 radial engine, driving a three-blade constant speed propeller, and used it to set a new transcontinental nonstop record, flying from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 9 hours 26 minutes 10 seconds with an average speed of 259 mph, on 13-14 January 1936. The flight shown here set a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California.)
A newsreel titled 'Preakness won by Bold Venture in amazing finish' shows Bold Venture,a horse win Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico race course in Baltimore,Maryland.
A newsreel titled 'Thousands view festival bringing Holland to US' shows people in large number view dancers perform a traditional dance at a festival depicting life and culture of Holland in United States. People from Holland move in a procession. Children play in a garden with tulips all around
Thirteen year old newspaper delivery boy Edward Floyd puts fuel into a homemade car that he made by himself in Seattle,Washington. Edward, a newsboy, starts up the car and drives away in his creation, delivering newspapers to homes as he drives.
A newsreel titled 'Wingless airplane' shows a wingless auto gyro (early helicopter) flying over Capitol building in Washington D.C.,United States. Auto gyro lands and the pilot meets an Army officer. The plane again lifts off and flies away.
A newsreel titled 'Padlock warship' shows a United States Marshall padlocks Cucuta,a Columbian warship in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania. He ties the naval vessel to her dock due to pending settlement of a claim for back pay by a former member of the crew.
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