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About the U.S. National Archives Photographs on Flickr The United States National Archives and Records Administration is delighted to join the Flickr community. We look forward to introducing some of our photographs to a new audience as well as interacting with experienced National Archives visitors and researchers in a new way. We invite you to explore our photographs. Please share your knowledge, insights, and experience by adding tags, notes, and comments. We would love to hear from you. Only a small sampling of our photographs can be found on Flickr at this time. For the pilot project, we will post a selection of photographs from the Women's Bureau, the Environmental Protection Agency, and a few favorites. The photos you see here are only a sample of the more than 25 million photographs and 20,000 graphic images (posters and some original artwork) held in roughly 2,500 series at the U.S. National Archives in the Washington, D.C., area, our regional archives facilities from coast to coast, and from the twelve Presidential Libraries under U.S. National Archives administration. These photographs, most taken by agents of Federal agencies over the years, cover a wide range of subjects and themes documented in the work of the United States government. Higher resolution versions of many of these images can be obtained from the U.S. National Archives by following the links located below each image.

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William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum

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  • Mohammed Ramdin said:
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Aloha Airlines in one of the two major airlines connecting the islands, October 1973

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  • TVL1970 said:
    The Aloha Airlines 737 in the photo (N73711, Boeing 737-297, c/n 20209/152) would be involved in one of the most significant aviation incidents of the past 30 years.

    On April 28, 1988, the aircraft would be flying Aloha Airlines Flight 243, from Hilo to Honolulu with 90 passengers and 5 flight crew aboard, when it would suffer explosive decompression at approximately 24,000-feet, losing 18-feet of its upper fuselage from just forward of the wing to just behind the forward main cabin door. The aircraft would make a successful emergency landing at Kahului Airport (OGG / PHOG) on Maui.

    Sadly, Clarabelle "C.B." Lansing, an Aloha flight attendant, would lose her life as she was reportedly blown out of the aircraft as its upper fuselage tore away over the Pacific Ocean. While many of the passengers aboard would suffer injury, Ms. Lansing would represent the sole fatality.

    The failure of the aircraft's cabin would be attributed to metal fatigue caused by years of service flying relatively short hops between the Hawaiian islands, with frequent compression and decompression cycles in a salt air coastal environment.

    As a result of Aloha Flight 243, more stringent inspection standards were implemented for older airliners and an untold number of lives have been saved.

    Here's a photo of the aircraft in the immediate aftermath of the incident:
  • TVL1970 said:
    Hawaiian Air Tours / Hawaiian Air Tour Service (HATS) and their DH-104 Dove (reg. N134G), wearing fleet number "7" on its vertical stabilizer in the photo above, make a cameo appearance in the circa-1960s "America!" television series episode entitled, "A Heaven Called Honolulu," at the 17min 24sec mark.
    See:
    YouTube - Periscope Film - 'America! A Heaven Called Honolulu' - 32605z

Monitors on James River

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  • Andrei Goncharik said:
  • Adam Bartel said:
    USS Saugus (Canonicus Class), USS Sangamon (Passaic Class), USS Virginia, USS Onondaga at Trent's Reach

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