Air Mail Pilot is a 1928 American silent action film directed by Gene Carroll and starring Earl Metcalfe, Blanche Mehaffey and DeWitt Jennings. Jimmy Fulton...
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United States airmail service (redirect from U.S. Air Mail)
delivering air mail by aircraft flown within the United States and its possessions and territories. Letters and parcels intended for air mail service were...
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The Air Mail scandal, also known as the Air Mail fiasco, is the name that the American press gave to the political scandal resulting from a 1934 congressional...
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February 1927 Lindbergh, who as a U.S. Air Mail pilot was familiar with the good record of the M-1 with Pacific Air Transport, wired, "Can you construct...
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preserved in the Library of Congress. Pilot Mike Miller (Ralph Bellamy) owns and operates Desert Airport, an air mail base at the foot of the Rocky Mountains...
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with carrying air mail service, beginning 19 February 1934. Due in part to extremely bad weather, inadequate preparation of the mail pilots, and the inadequacies...
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James DeWitt Hill (category United States airmail pilots)
James DeWitt Hill (2 March 1882 – 7 September 1927) was an early US air mail pilot, who died while attempting one of the first transatlantic flights, with...
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James Clark Edgerton (category United States airmail pilots)
aviator and Air Mail pilot who as a young lieutenant flew the Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., leg on the first day of scheduled Air Mail service in the...
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Earle Ovington (category United States airmail pilots)
the United States Post Office Department designating him as "Official Air Mail Pilot #1." He was born on December 20, 1879, in Chicago, Illinois. He married...
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Charles Lindbergh (category United States airmail pilots)
U.S. Army Air Service cadet in 1924, earning the rank of second lieutenant in 1925. Later that year, he was hired as a U.S. Air Mail pilot in the Greater...
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himself a pilot, strived for authenticity in the story of The Air Mail. To find out what air mail pilots were encountering, Morgan flew on an air mail flight...
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Kenneth O. Chilstrom (category U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School alumni)
December 3, 2022) was a United States Air Force officer, combat veteran, test pilot, and author. He was the first USAF pilot to fly the XP-86 Sabre, chief of...
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takes TV by storm; and a four-year-old climbs the Rocky Mountains". Air Mail Pilot. Payne, Aisha (27 November 2020). "Schoolboy is youngest winner of International...
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March 4, 1987) was a pioneer American mail pilot, test pilot, flying instructor, Antarctic pilot, and airline pilot. At 17 years of age, he became the youngest...
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film, so it is presumably a lost film. In 1925, pilot Larry Cassidy (Ormer Locklear) is flying air mail for the United States Postal Service. He faces...
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killed, though Edgar survives. Ten years later, Edgar is a Contract Air Mail pilot flying the rugged CAM-5 route between Elko, Nevada and Pasco, Washington...
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chief pilot for the service. RAC started service with four converted DH-4 aircraft (#s 109-112) acquired from the U.S. Postal Service's Air Mail fleet...
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Dick Merrill (category United States airmail pilots)
the highest-paid air mail pilot, flew the first round-trip transatlantic flight in 1936, was Dwight D. Eisenhower's personal pilot during the 1952 presidential...
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Johnny Miller (aviator) (category American test pilots)
to fly a scheduled US mail rotorcraft service. He was also a test pilot and airline captain. He became the oldest active pilot in the US, making his first...
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those certified as airline transport pilots (unconditional) are authorized to act as pilot in command on scheduled air carriers' aircraft under CFR 14 Part...
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politician James Clark Edgerton (1896–1973), U.S. Army aviator and Air Mail pilot Jim Edgerton (1930–2022), American painting subject Joel Edgerton (born...
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naval aviator, air mail pilot, transport pilot, autogiro pilot, flight instructor, aircraft manufacturer, airport operator, agricultural pilot, and helicopter...
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Sikorsky Charles Kingsford Smith Dean Smith, of the Byrd Expeditions, Air Mail Pilot Lloyd Stearman Moye W. Stephens Jack Swigert Richard G. Thomas Juan...
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Harlan Gurney (section Career as a commercial pilot)
Gurney (July 15, 1905 – November 28, 1982) was a pioneer American mail pilot and airline pilot. He is also known as one of Charles Lindbergh's oldest friends...
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Mal Freeburg (category United States airmail pilots)
Herbert Hoover was prepared to present Freeburg with the first of a new air mail pilot's medal for Heroism after being recognized for his action of courage...
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U. S. Air Mail pilot, flying the Oakland to Salt Lake City route. On 19 September 1927, he was reportedly on the brink on competition in an air derby...
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Putnam's Sons in New York. Just 57 days after then 25-year old former US Air Mail pilot Charles Lindbergh had completed his historic Orteig Prize-winning first-ever...
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Women in aviation (redirect from Female pilots)
beginnings of both lighter-than air travel and as airplanes, helicopters and space travel were developed. Women pilots were also formerly called "aviatrices"...
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States Army Air Corps. Originally from Nebraska, Wenz moved to Wyoming before the war where he learned to fly airplanes, worked as an air mail pilot, and built...
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