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26_0066285 Rohr Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded December 2025
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052424gje041 SDASM Curatorial Image from SDASM Archives uploaded October 2024
First Saturn (SA-1) Launch from NASA on The Commons uploaded October 2024
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Thousands of News Reporters Watch Apollo 11 Lift Off from NASA on The Commons uploaded July 2024
Apollo 11 Launched Via the Saturn V Rocket-High Angle View from NASA on The Commons uploaded July 2024
120705 wat 005 Curatorial Collection Image from SDASM Archives uploaded April 2024
The Apollo 9 Astronauts from NASA on The Commons uploaded January 2024
NACA Ames 7x10 Wind Tunnel from NASA on The Commons uploaded August 2023
110-10_0029624 SDASM Image from SDASM Archives uploaded June 2023
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[Untitled photo, possibly related to: Visitors on the observation platform. Municipal airport, Washington, D.C.] (LOC)
World Cruiser [airplane] (LOC)
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TVL1970 said:
The prototype Douglas World Cruiser, Army Air Service serial number AS 23-1210, McCook Field prototype number P-318. She'd later be named "Boston II." The aircraft was designed and built to US Army Air Service (USAAS) specifications for the purpose of completing the first flight around the world (hence, the ability to operate either with interchangeable fixed handing gear or floats) . Four production aircraft were built for the flight. They were named, "Seattle" (AS 23-1229), "Chicago" (AS 23-1230), "Boston" (AS 23-1231), and "New Orleans" (AS 23-1232). Both "Seattle" and "Boston" would fail to complete the journey. "Seattle" would crash in Alaska on April 30, 1924 (the story of the survival of her crew is worth learning about). "Boston" would be forced to land at sea near the Faroe Islands after her engine failed. She'd be irreparably damaged in the forced landing, and would sink while being towed by the light cruiser USS Richmond (CL-9), on August 3, 1924. After the loss of "Boston," the prototype (AS 23-1210) was pressed into service for the remainder of the flight, now named "Boston II." It would join the flight at Pictou Harbor, Nova Scotia, on September 3, 1924. Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_World_Cruiser en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_aerial_circumnavigation
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swanq said:
The Seattle Star. May 12, 1924, Page 7, column 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87093407/1924-05-12/ed-... reports the safety of the crew of the "Seattle" with headline "Aviators make their own rescue: Martin and Harvey walk for days to reach safety." Another description of the survival of the crew of the Seattle is at web.archive.org/web/20120622074326/http://www.alaskaairmu... This piece has a photo of the crashed plane. The Palisadian. September 12, 1924, ROTOGRAVURE SECTION, Image 9 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020438/1924-09-12/ed-... also includes a picture of the crashed plane.
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Jon (LOC P&P) said:
Thanks TVL1970, we'll update our catalog record.