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Title: Lockheed Constellation transport plane
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner)
Description: Text on verso: 'The giant new Lockheed Constellation is a successful of Lockheed's engineering research, combining high speed with a long range and great cargo capacity in one airplane. Faster than a Japanese Zero fighter or any four-engined bomber now in active service, the huge new transport will cross the continent non-stop in less than nine hours, fly to Honolulu in twelve. It can carry 55 passengers and a crew of nine non-stop from Los Angeles to New York in record time. Powered by four...
Show moreText on verso: 'The giant new Lockheed Constellation is a successful of Lockheed's engineering research, combining high speed with a long range and great cargo capacity in one airplane. Faster than a Japanese Zero fighter or any four-engined bomber now in active service, the huge new transport will cross the continent non-stop in less than nine hours, fly to Honolulu in twelve. It can carry 55 passengers and a crew of nine non-stop from Los Angeles to New York in record time. Powered by four 2000-horsepowere(d) Wright engines, the Constellation at cruising speed at half power is approximately 100 miles an hour faster than standard air-cargo or airline ships of today. The air-conditioned cabin is pressurized to maintain an air density of 8000 feet while the plane speeds along at 20,000 to 35,000 feet 'above the weather.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00044
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: First Coast to Coast Air Mail Flight Ends at San Francisco
Date(s): 1930/1940, 1930, 1940
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Keystone View Company (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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. of the Western Division of the serial mail service and Postmaster Chas. F. Fay and officials of the San Francisco Post-office.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00533b
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: How the Airmail Works
Date(s): 1925-01-09
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is...
Show moreText on verso: '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, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is also taken on and dispatched from each relay station to and from trains to points not on the airmail route, hence airmail is made available to all cities whether they are on the route of flight or not. This picture shows mail being transferred from a plane which has just arrived to the plane that is to take it on its next hop.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00535
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: How the Airmail Works
Date(s): 1925-01-09
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is...
Show moreText on verso: '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, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is also taken on and dispatched from each relay station to and from trains to points not on the airmail route, hence airmail is made available to all cities. This photo shows mail being transferred from the plane which has just arrived to the ship about to leave. The air mail planes are De Havilands, with the forward cockpit replaced by a covered compartment in which the mail is carried, 600 pounds can be accommodated on one plane.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00534
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: New Device Exchanges Mail Bags from Plane!
Date(s): 1929-08-27
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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 mail on the fly.(Photo shows pilot Siever reeling bag into plane).'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00538
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: The Old and the New!
Date(s): 1920/1940, 1920, 1940
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Harris & Ewing (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00539
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: How the Airmail Works
Date(s): 1925-01-09
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is...
Show moreText on verso: '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, each plane and pilot flying only about 1 1/2 hours and then transferring his load to the next ship. With short flights and frequent relays in this way, the planes can be completely overhauled after each short hop, and accuracy and success assured. Mail is also taken on and dispatched from each relay station to and from trains to points not on the airmail route, hence airmail is made available to all cities whether they are on the route of flight or not. This photo shows an airmail plane arriving at Salt Lake City field (center) with the next plane (left) all ready to take off as soon as the mail is transferred.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00536
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Sorting Mail en Route on Plane Predicted
Date(s): 1930/1940, 1930, 1940
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Acme Newspictures (New York, N.Y.) (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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 be distributed according to points of destination into pneumatic mail tube carriers which upon arrival of the plane at an airport, will immediately be shot by compressed air through the tube system into the nearest post office. Several bills now in Congress,...
Show moreText on verso: '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 be distributed according to points of destination into pneumatic mail tube carriers which upon arrival of the plane at an airport, will immediately be shot by compressed air through the tube system into the nearest post office. Several bills now in Congress, if passed, will make possible this system, in which a letter mailed in New York in the morning will be delivered in Chicago the afternoon of the same day. Photo shows the landing of a flying post office of the furture with the airmail in metal containers.'
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Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00541
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: New Device Exchanges Mail Bags from Plane!
Date(s): 1929-08-27
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Pacific & Atlantic Photos, Inc. (photographer)
Description: Text on verso: '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 mail on the fly.(Photo shows the plane flying over the catapult in trials).'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00549
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Two planes in front of Atlantic Aviation building
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Atlantic Aviation Corporation (originator), Du Pont, Henry Belin, 1898-1970 (associated name)
Description: Biplane on left is de Havilland airmail plane US Mail 249, reconstructed by J.W. Hackbarth in the 1960s forty years after the plane was crashed and abandoned on Porcupine Ridge in Utah in 1922.
Collection ID: Atlantic Aviation Corporation photographs (Accession 1999.223)
Hagley ID: 1999223_01_01_015
Collection: Atlantic Aviation Corporation photographs

Title: Two planes in front of Atlantic Aviation building
Date(s): 1965
Contributor(s): Atlantic Aviation Corporation (originator), Du Pont, Henry Belin, 1898-1970 (associated name)
Description: Biplane on left is de Havilland airmail plane US Mail 249, reconstructed by J.W. Hackbarth in the 1960s forty years after the plane was crashed and abandoned on Porcupine Ridge in Utah in 1922.
Collection ID: Atlantic Aviation Corporation photographs (Accession 1999.223)
Hagley ID: 1999223_01_01_014
Collection: Atlantic Aviation Corporation photographs

Title: Curtiss C-46 Commando transport aircraft
Date(s): 1943-08-14
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Curtiss-Wright Corporation (originator)
Description: Text on verso: 'The C-46 Commando, largest twin-engine air transport in world, which serves war fronts in large numbers. This plane carries early U.S. insignia The Commando's cargo capacity is as large as a box car.'
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00041
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Du Pont, Lammot, 1909-1964 (former owner), Menge, Otto Fredrick, 1887-1957 (photographer)
Collection ID: Lammot du Pont, Jr. collection of aeronautical photographs (Accession 1975.360)
Hagley ID: 75360_00040
Collection: Lammot du Pont, Jr. aeronautical collection

Title: De Havilland Heron : series 1 & 2
Date(s): 1953-09
Creator: De Havilland Aircraft Company, ltd.
Description: General statement, September 1953
Collection ID: Trade Cat .D322 1958
Hagley ID: I091111_tcd322
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets