Airmail Pioneers: A Breif History. THE FIRST aerial mail transportation may be traced back to 1. Paris by free. balloons, cast adrift in the winds.
This service. of course, was not satisfactory, as the balloons could not be controlled. Some of them. were carried by the winds many miles from Paris before they came down, and. Paris. In the year 1. India, England and the United States. The first air. mail service in the United States, however, was conducted at the aviation.
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Nassau Boulevard, Long Island, N. Y., during the week of. September 2. 3 to 3. Y., dropping the pouches at the latter point for the. This service, performed without expense to the.
Department, was flown at regular intervals during the period, a total of. It was. quite satisfactory on the whole, and very promising. A few other similar experiments were made during.
Post Office Department recognizing. Congress early in 1. Congress refused to grant the appropriation. Notwithstanding, the keen.
Post Office Department in aerial transportation was kept. Such service. was merely temporary, of course, but performed in each instance by a sworn. Department. These experimental flights. Congress for an air mail. During the fiscal year 1.
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Steamboat or other Power Boat Service, and in that year advertisements. Massachusetts and on. Alaska. No bids were received under the advertisements, due to. Nevertheless, negotiations with airplane.
The development of the airplane in the World War. A final step looking toward. Congress appropriated $1. June 3. 0, 1. 91. Careful preliminary study and consideration had.
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- The first official air mail delivery in the United. The first official American airmail delivery was made on September 23, 1911 by pilot Earle Ovington.
May 1. 5, 1. 91. 8, the first air mail route in. United States was established between New York, N. Y., and Washington. D. C., with a stop at Philadelphia, Pa., for the exchange of mails or. The distance of the route was approximately 2.
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Sunday. This service. War Department, which. Post Office Department handling the mail and matters.
Earle Ovington was the Post Office Department’s “First Aeroplane Mail Carrier.
The cooperation of the War Department, which was. August 1. 2, 1. 91. Post Office. Department took over the entire operation of the route, furnishing its own. AIR MAIL SERVICE INAUGURAL.
CEREMONY, MAY 1. 5, 1. Chance, Postmaster, Washington, D. C.. Albert S. Burleson, Postmast General, President Woodrow Wilson.
In fact, the operation of this experimental route was so. Department immediately began to lay plans for the. New York City to San. Francisco. The first leg of this important route was. July 1 of the same year. These two latter routes were utilized to advance. Chicago and Cleveland gateway mail.
New York to Cleveland, where it was placed on. New York the evening before, thus saving about 1. Middle West and 2. Eastbound flights over this route advanced. Cleveland to New York in the same manner. On. the Cleveland- Chicago route mail from the east was taken from the train at. Cleveland in the morning and flown to Chicago in time for the last city.
On the eastbound trips. Chicago to overtake the mail train at Cleveland, which. New York at 9: 4. New York City. and the New England States.
On the three routes in operation during the fiscal. The record of performance during this fiscal year. On May 1. 5, 1. 92. Chicago, Ill., to Omaha, Nebr., via Iowa City.
Iowa, was established, performing service similar to that performed on the. New York and Chicago.
On August 1. 6, 1. Chicago and St. Louis, and on December 1 of the same. Chicago and Minneapolis. Both of. these latter routes expedited mail between the points named, and were.
Chicago. The last leg of the transcontinental route, Omaha. Nebr., to San Francisco, Calif., via North Platte, Nebr., Cheyenne. Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyo., Salt Lake City Utah, and Elko and Reno.
Nevada, was inaugurated on September 8, 1. The initial westbound trip. The plane carried. San Francisco 2. 2 hours ahead of the best.
Due to the necessity of economizing on. Congress had not specifically authorized. New York- Washington route was discontinued on May 3. Minneapolis- Chicago and the Chicago- St.
Louis routes on June 3. Operation was then confined to the service between New York and San. Francisco, for which appropriation was specifically made. THE FIRST AIR MAIL STAMPS. These stamps were printed in two colors requiring the sheets of. Taken at Checkerboard Field, Maywood, Chicago base on February 2. Cheyenne to Chicago.
In order to further demonstrate the possibilities. San Francisco to New. York, and on February 2. San Francisco at. New York (Hazelhurst Field, L. Y.) at 4: 5. 0. p. The total elapsed time for the trip, including all.
The actual flying time was 2. This flight was made possible by flying at night.
Cheyenne, Wyo., and Chicago, Ill., a class of service the need of. Department. While the present relay service had been. Department that if the route could be operated from New York to San. Francisco on a through schedule, flying both night and day, a wonderful.
With the development of night service in mind, the. Department on August 2.
Navy. Department stations. By November 1, ten of these stations were in.
Navy Department which were to. Rawlins, Wyo., making a total of 1.
From this time on all plane movements were made on. In addition to. service messages, it was used by other departments in lieu of telegraph. Department. of Agriculture. In addition to the installation of radio stations, all the. STANDARD MAIL PLANE, CURTISS JN4. H. NEW YORK TO CHICAGO, 1. Soon after the Post.
Office Department took over the details of operation in August of that. Standard Aircraft Company mail planes were purchased. Rebuilt De. Haviland planes with Liberty motors were largely used. However; at one time or another, planes of the. Curtiss JN. This practice was discontinued beginning.
July 1, 1. 92. 1, however, when the air mail service adopted the. De. Haviland plane with Liberty- 1. A number of factors contributed to this end. Large. stocks of Liberty motors were available and could be had by transfer from. War Department. BOEING C- 7. SEAPLANE, SEATTLE TO.
VICTORIA, B. C., 1. If not. more so. A number of De.
Haviland planes were also obtained from the War and. Navy Departments, and when remodeled and rebuilt into mail planes, they. Experience had also proven they were a comparatively safe.
The Air Mail Repair Depot was located at Chicago, and. De. HAVILLAND DH- 4, NEW YORK TO SAN. FRANCISCO, 1. 92. However, by developing. Due. to this same system of inspection, forced landings on account of the.
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