Text from back of image: "Across Baltic Sea and English Channel the first Danish Air Line, Amsterdam, and London and flying back by way of Gothengury to Malmo. The motor of the giant Hydroplane used is of 220 HP Benz motor, carries mail and...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Transcontinental flights; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "E. E. Mouton, pilot of the U.S. mail plane, No. 151 which flew from New York to San Francisco, carrying mail. This is the first successful trans-continental air mail flight. Mouton was greeted by Col. John A. Jordan, Supt....
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco,...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco,...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "Contrary to general opinion, coast-to-coast airmail is not a one-plane-all-the-way proposition, but the remarkable speed and success of the plan is due to the use of 14 planes for each trip from New York to San Francisco,...
Text from back of image: "Photo shows air-rail station under construction at Port Columbus, Municipal Airport of Columbus, Ohio. It is here that air and rail will first meet to link the east and west coasts of America on the plane and train service...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "An arrangement is being tried out at Youngstown, Ohio, that will receive a bag of mail from a plane and at the same time catapult another bag from the ground to the plane. This enables a plane to take on and distribute...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "In the days of stage coaches, it took 10 1/2 days from the Missouri River to reach the Pacific Coast and now the air mail flies it in 20 hours."
Text from back of image: "A view of the modern airship shed, at Karachi, India which is to be used in the airship service between England and India. This was made as the port was officially completed by the insertion of the final bolt, in the...
Air pilots; Postal service; Transport planes; Air mail service;
Text from back of image: "The sorting of air mail while en route in the plane just as is done on railway mail cars, is predicted as a necessary time-saver in the future transportation of mail in the flying post offices of the future. The mail will...
Text from back of image: "A picture in flight of the new type all-metal low-wing twin-engined Boeing plane, world's fastet multi-motored plane, a fleet of which will soon be placed on United Air Lines' coast-to-coast passenger route this year....
Paper torn - cannot read fully - "News Editor - the attached photograph…interesting view from the Century of…." (shows United Air Lines steps with plane and locomotive)
Text from back of image: "An American Airlines flagship set up in the Congress Street Plaza on Chicago's Michigan Avenue as part of the city's observation of Aviation Week."
