FIRST MAIL PILOT USA SERIES

FIRST MAIL PILOT USA SERIES

Series of volunteer flights linking the sixteen original transfer points, only seven of which continue today as active airports. Ovington was sworn in as Americas first air mail pilot and, squeezing a full. With the encouragement of several of the nation's leading general aviation organizations, we have organized a detail the development of commercial aviation in the United States. Place: United States of America See more items in: National Postal Museum. Those first pilots called themselves 'The Suicide Club.'Īir Mail 100 will commemorate that historic event, which led within the decade to the commencement of commercial passenger air service. In 1925, Dean Smith was among the pilots who flew the first regular overnight. By 1919, 400 HP deHavillands where regularly carrying mail sacks between Omaha and Chicago, but the September flight that now pointed its nose towards the distant Hudson would link an entire continent, but not without financial cost and human sacrifice. Regional air mail service had commenced two years earlier linking New York and Washington, D.C. airmail delivery, flying 1,800 letters and postcards 5. On September 8, 1920, a DH-4 biplane lifted off in the early morning from a grass air strip east of New York City on Long Island, beginning a grand experiment to carry mail from the East Coast to the West in a series of hops across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and points west. Seven months later, pilot Earle Ovington and his Bleriot XI Monoplane made the first U.S. REMEMBER CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION AIR MAIL 100 STORY James Clark Edgerton (1896-1973) As a young Army 2nd Lieutenant fresh out of flight school, Edgerton flew the Philadelphia to Washington, DC, leg on the first day of scheduled Air Mail service in the United States on May 15, 1918.

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