Howard Hughes Flying Boat Crossing Highway Intersection

(Original Caption) Transfer of the world's largest cargo plane from the Culver City, California, plant where it was built to the Long Beach, California base where it will be assembled, constituted one of the most strangest and most difficult moving jobs on record. For six days, hundreds of thousands of Southern Californians watched the fantastic parade of plane parts lumber over a 28-mile land and water route. The biggest problems were created by the three major parts, the 220-foot hull and the 320-foot wing, which was broken into two equal sections for the journey. To make way for the fuselage, it was necessary for power company employees, working a mile in advance, to clip overhead wires. The final and most hazardous stage was the progress of the giant hull over a specially constructed pontoon bridge from the mainland to the plane's terminal island base in Los Angeles Harbor.