With customary secrecy, Howard Hughs, millionaire oilman and speed flyer, is reported to be grooming his new 250,000, four-motored, streamline stratoliner for another record-breaking transcontinental flight from Glendale, California, to New York. Hughes made the headlines sometime ago when he broke the transcontinental record in a smaller ship. The new craft is pictured just before a trial flight at Glendale. 30 August 1939