![]() ![]() ![]() But if we are sending mail over a longer, New York to Chicago for instance… Not much we can do about it on a 218-mile route. But there’s nothing we can do about that, sir. It’s everybody’s secret that when a pilot encounters a head wind or has engine trouble, the train mail beats us, post office to post office. And it’s also correct that mail trucking is pretty slow. But the College Park field is seven miles from where we are sitting, and it is eleven good miles, congested miles, from Belmont to the Eighth Avenue Post Office in Manhattan. Well, by train it’s five hours to New York, by plane it’s only three. Just how much better is air mail service than train service? Pretty good? Why, I’d say those Liberty motors we installed in the Curtiss R’s are holding up splendidly. Here’s that report of air mail service, Mr. One day he buzzed for George Connor, chief clerk of air mail in the Post Office Department. But, Otto Praeger wasn’t a man to be satisfied with success. Hear a reenactment between Praeger and the chief clerk of air mail about the efficiency of the service. Postal Service to expand air mail service to destinations west because he believed that was where the true benefits of air mail over train service lie. Shortly thereafter, Praeger wanted the U.S. Postal Service took over air mail from the Army at an airstrip in College Park, Maryland. Will then recounts to Donnie the events of the day the U.S. The result was the creation of the JR-1B, the first plane that was specifically designed to carry mail. After a few months of service, the Army recalled its pilots for combat and Second Assistant Postmaster General Otto Praeger suggested that the United States Postal Service acquire their own planes and pilots to deliver the air mail themselves. In 1918, the United States Army began operating experimental air mail service between Washington, D.C. Will goes on to share a bit of a history lesson about when the United States Postal Service (USPS) was responsible for air mail service. He managed to hand a letter to the pilot, and when he drove with his dad to Mineola a few days later, he met with the letter recipient and asked for the envelope. Will tells his sister he rediscovered the envelope in their mother’s old desk, and then recounts the story of how he visited Belmont Park in New York on the day the postmaster general was set to fly one of the first bags of air mail to Mineola. Why, where on earth did you get this envelope Bill? Aeroplane, Station Number One, Garden City Estates, New York. No, first stamps cancelled for air mail transportation. He made some of those models of air mail planes that you saw in the aircraft building. Why, Paul Garber is assistant curator of engineering in charge of Aeronautics at the Smithsonian. ![]() Hmm, and if you keep up this good work, my friend Paul Garber will have to look to his laurels one of these days. Listen to Will share about his personal interest in air mail with Donnie. His mother, the only unnamed character in the episode, remarks that Donnie has been making them ever since the family returned from a visit to the Smithsonian in Washington. The main characters of the episode then enter the scene when a boy, Donnie, cautions his uncle, Will, not to step on any of the model planes he’s building. The episode begins with a rapid series of vignettes of people frantic about getting letters and documents to places across the country quickly, and then realizing they could send it by air mail. ![]()
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