The first day of airmail service in the United States, May 15, 1918, with pilot Lt. Torrey Webb. Source
Unloading the first airmail plane to fly across the continent in 1924, at Omaha, Nebraska. Source
Pilot Eddie Gardner with his plane, 1918. Source
Pilot Robert Shank (one of the first four airmail pilots) after a crash, 1918. Source
The airmail field and hangar at Omaha, Nebraska, 1927. Source
Airmail plane taking off, undated. Source
Photograph of pilot Arthur Roy Smith, who flew for the airmail service from 1923 until his death in a crash in 1926. Despite the skill of the pilots, crashes were sometimes unavoidable and several pilots were killed in the decade of airmail. Source
Pilot John F. Milanzo, c. 1924. He flew with the airmail service from 1923-1927, when he sadly became the last pilot killed while working for the airmail service, his plane crashing in an April snowstorm. Source
Pilot Lt. James Edgerton and his sister, 1918. Edgerton was one of a group of army pilots who were the first to fly mail for the Postal Service. Source
Pilot William Carroll, c.1921. Sadly, in February of that year he and two other men were killed when their airmail plane burst into flames and crashed. Source
Pilot William C. Hopson in winter flying gear, c.1926. Source
1 comment:
I want to fly in a biplane, hopefully not in a snowstorm though. Some of those pilots looked like movie stars.
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