OT/MISC Howard Hughes poses for his last known photo... 15 years before his death

Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Howard Hughes poses for his last known photo... 15 years before his death

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Howard Hughes didn’t pass away until April 5, 1976, when he was 70 years old, but due to his highly secretive and obsessive compulsive behavior, he locked himself away with no one but his doctors to keep him company until his addiction to prescription medication and old age took him. That’s what makes this last known photo of Hughes so fascinating, it was taken in 1961 - a solid 15 years before his death.

It’s not entirely clear why Hughes got himself cleaned up for this photo (previously he’d been living in a hotel and wearing nothing but a pink hotel napkin) but it likely had something to do with the creation of the Hughes Space and Communications Company, a combination of the Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems Division. Over the course of the next decade and a half, Hughes grew even more inward and saw his health decline at an astounding rate. He suppsedly gobbled Asprin, codeine and vicodin as well as chocolates and milk until he passed away.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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A photo from inside Japan Airlines Flight 123 as it went down over Japan


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On August 12, 1985, Japan Airlines Flight 123 departed from the Haneda Airport in Tokyo en route to Osaka on what should have been a routine trip. After 12 minutes it was clear that something was off when the plane suddenly decompressed and the plane’s vertical stabilizer was destroyed along with part of its tail. As the plane’s cabin depressurized oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and the crew lost control of its hydraulics before crashing into two ridges of Mount Takamagahara. It’s unclear who took this photo as the plane went down, but it’s a chilling look at the deadliest single-aircraft accident in history. 505 passengers and 15 crew members were lost in the accident, and only four female passengers survived the devastating crash.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 goes down over San Diego


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Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182flew from Sacramento to San Diego routinely; it was the model of regularity, but at 9 a.m. on September 25, 1978, everything changed. It was clear skies over San Diego so Captain McFeron should have had the landing down, but he couldn’t have guessed that a Cessna 172 would pop up under his plane while he tried to land at Lindbergh Field.

The two planes collided, completely ripping the Cessna to bits and destroying the right wing of PSA Flight 182. The planes fell from the sky over residential streets, destroying everything in their paths. Everyone aboard the plane died on impact, houses caught fire, and pedestrians were taken out by debris. It was easily the bloodiest day in San Diego history.
 
Txkstew

Txkstew

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I can't get the pic to load from the article. Last known photo of this kid. I think it was on the cover of Life Magazine.

The Tragic Story Of Keith Sapsford, The 14-Year-Old Stowaway Who Fell From A Plane
On February 22, 1970, an Australian teen named Keith Sapsford snuck onto the tarmac at Sydney Airport and hid inside a Tokyo-bound plane. It was the last decision he ever made.

allthatsinteresting.com

This Boy Fell Out Of A Plane In 1970 — And A Photographer Accidentally Captured It

Three out of four airplane stowaways do not survive the journey.
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The Hammer

The Hammer

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Dennis Olson said:
Howard Hughes poses for his last known photo... 15 years before his death

38b7411e8418aad71b7c5d961f0ba44f.jpg

source: flickr


Howard Hughes didn’t pass away until April 5, 1976, when he was 70 years old, but due to his highly secretive and obsessive compulsive behavior, he locked himself away with no one but his doctors to keep him company until his addiction to prescription medication and old age took him. That’s what makes this last known photo of Hughes so fascinating, it was taken in 1961 - a solid 15 years before his death.

It’s not entirely clear why Hughes got himself cleaned up for this photo (previously he’d been living in a hotel and wearing nothing but a pink hotel napkin) but it likely had something to do with the creation of the Hughes Space and Communications Company, a combination of the Hughes Space and Communications Group and the Hughes Space Systems Division. Over the course of the next decade and a half, Hughes grew even more inward and saw his health decline at an astounding rate. He suppsedly gobbled Asprin, codeine and vicodin as well as chocolates and milk until he passed away.
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He's gotta be related to the Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey. You know, the guy who looks like a goat...
 
PghPanther

PghPanther

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Well if its a last know photo thread then...................here is the last known photo of my childhood hero which haunts me to this day.

Racing icon Scottish driver Jimmy Clark getting ready before the start of an F2 race that lead to his fatal crash in Germany back on April 7, 1968............he was to be in a sports car race that day but cancelled in order to help his boss Colin Chapman workout the handling of their Lotus F2 developmental series car in actual racing conditions for a scheduled racing event consisting of two heat races.

The look of Clark before a race is normally jovial but in this shot shows a pensive contemplating stare ...........the car was not behaving as expected during practice/qualifying and to add to the stress it was raining that day........

A single car crash on lap 5 of the 1st heat while running at high speed (est. 170 mph) saw the car suddenly slide off track into an unprotected trees lined area of the track that killed him instantly while cutting the car in half.......no footage or camera shots documented the actual crash and only a few eye witnesses saw the mishap who say either suspension failure or a deflated tire might have caused the car to swerve off course losing traction on a wet track and heading into the forest.

Clark was considered the greatest driver of his generation and arguably one of the greatest natural talents to ever sit behind the wheel of a race car.......it was inconceivable to other drivers that Clark with his smooth and controlled driving style would simply have lost control of a car by his own accord whether rain or shine...

......said Ferrari F1 driver and competitor to Clark in those days, Chris Amon........"If this can happen to Jimmy.........then what hope do we have?"

My father gave me the news of his crash and death..........I had been upstairs in my room studying school work (I was 14 yrs old at the time)..... on my desk was my Clark Indy 500 winning Lotus/Ford model race car and a big poster of his F1 car on my door when my dad came in and said he just heard on the radio that news coming in from Europe this morning reported that Clark had been killed in a F2 race in Germany about an hour ago.

I was stunned and just sat in silence unable to absorb the reality of it.................so did the rest of the racing world.

I never had another hero after that in racing despite that his understudy/admirer......a fellow Scott by the name of Jackie Stewart became a pretty good talent in his own right...

....for me I was too afraid of losing another hero again back in a time where fatalities were all too common compared to today.....

Clark was 32 yrs old at the time of his death.

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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
I had the incredible pleasure (for a Corner Marshal) of watching Gilles Villaneuve take the Mid Ohio track apart and put it back together several times in the 70's, before he died. SMOOTHE is just ONE description of him in a Formula Atlantic. Blazingly FAST is another. RIP
 
AlaskaSue

AlaskaSue

North to the Future
Txkstew said:
I can't get the pic to load from the article. Last known photo of this kid. I think it was on the cover of Life Magazine.

The Tragic Story Of Keith Sapsford, The 14-Year-Old Stowaway Who Fell From A Plane
On February 22, 1970, an Australian teen named Keith Sapsford snuck onto the tarmac at Sydney Airport and hid inside a Tokyo-bound plane. It was the last decision he ever made.

allthatsinteresting.com

This Boy Fell Out Of A Plane In 1970 — And A Photographer Accidentally Captured It

Three out of four airplane stowaways do not survive the journey.
allthatsinteresting.com allthatsinteresting.com
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Good gravy, I remember that as I was the same age and we’d just moved to Alaska. Extremely sad.
 
goosebeans

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Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England.

His last radio communication:

Hallo, the bow is up… I'm going… I'm on my back… I've gone. Oh.






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vestige

Deceased
goosebeans said:
Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England.

His last radio communication:

Hallo, the bow is up… I'm going… I'm on my back… I've gone. Oh.






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I actually remember that
 
goosebeans

goosebeans

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vestige said:
I actually remember that
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Me too. His body/remains was finally found 34 years later!!

It's a beautiful lake. Camped there many times. At 14 my best friend and I had the hair-brained idea of rowing all the way across the lake in my little rubber dingy. Well, it was my hair-brained - and pretty stupid- idea but she agreed to it. There was a horse in a field on the other side and I wanted to go look at it. We packed a sandwich and a drink and set off. It was MUCH further than we'd ever imagined! Had to stop to breathe and rest my arms about the half way mark. Bobbing around, eating our sandwiches, a sail boat with a group of very well-to-do people was forced to alter course to avoid us. Can still hear the man saying "Good Lord! what are they doing out here!" and the lady with a very posh, English accent "They diwn't luc very owld!" LOL. We made it to the other side. The horse took off and wouldn't come near us, so we got back in the boat and I rowed all the way back. I don't think we even told my parents what we were doing. They probably thought we were piddling around on the beach.
 
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mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
Dennis Olson said:
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 goes down over San Diego


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source: reddit

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182flew from Sacramento to San Diego routinely; it was the model of regularity, but at 9 a.m. on September 25, 1978, everything changed. It was clear skies over San Diego so Captain McFeron should have had the landing down, but he couldn’t have guessed that a Cessna 172 would pop up under his plane while he tried to land at Lindbergh Field.

The two planes collided, completely ripping the Cessna to bits and destroying the right wing of PSA Flight 182. The planes fell from the sky over residential streets, destroying everything in their paths. Everyone aboard the plane died on impact, houses caught fire, and pedestrians were taken out by debris. It was easily the bloodiest day in San Diego history.
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This one bothers me. When I lived in San Diego in the mid-60's, I was a typist for the insurance carrier for Pacific Southwest. My office manager used to love telling me how they were the only airline that never had an accident.
I just looked them up, and apparently they haven't been in business for many years now. I wonder if this accident did it.

Sad.

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mzkitty

mzkitty

I give up.
goosebeans said:
Donald Malcolm Campbell, CBE (23 March 1921 – 4 January 1967) was a British speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt at Coniston Water in the Lake District, England.

His last radio communication:

Hallo, the bow is up… I'm going… I'm on my back… I've gone. Oh.






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I saw him on Canandaigua Lake when I was a kid. Faaaaaast...........

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