Hughes' Ship comes in cheers, flashes, clicking cameras and a battalion of New York's huskiest cops welcomed five tired airmen who toured the world in seven hops in less than four days at Floyd Bennett Airport, July 14. Here's the plane in the middle of a select crowd while back of the fence and a cordon of policemen is a corner of the crowd on hand at the finish of the Hughes flight. July 14, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).