A mail plane is an aircraft used for carrying mail. Aircraft that were purely mail planes existed almost exclusively prior to World War II. Because early aircraft were too underpowered to carry cargoes and too costly to run any "economy class" passenger-carrying service, the main civilian role for aircraft was to carry letters faster than ...

During its existence, the Post Office-operated airmail service used several type of airplanes, from wooden biplanes to all metal monoplanes. Eddie Gardner posed with his Curtiss JN-4H in 1918. The first plane the Airmail Service used was a modification of the …

Top right: Boeing 40A mail and passenger plane, 1928. The Model 40A was the first Boeing airplane to carry passengers. The planes could carry two passengers in a tiny cabin, as well as 1,200 pounds of mail. They were used by Boeing Air Transport on Contract Air Mail Route 18, San Francisco–Chicago, beginning in July 1927.

2021年12月9日 · In the early days of commercial air flight, airlines struggled to turn a profit and remain afloat. The United States government, hoping to foster the success of commercial airlines, met this challenge by using airplanes to move mail across the country.

Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send.

The U.S. Post Office began using airplanes to move the mail in order to help establish an air transportation system. The new field of air transportation was risky business. Early airlines proved unprofitable.

The air mail route is the first step toward the universal commercial use of the aeroplane. —Benjamin B. Lipsner, Superintendent of Aerial Mail Service, 19181 When airmail began in 1918, airplanes were still a fairly new invention. Pilots flew in open cockpits in all kinds of weather, in planes later described as “a

2021年4月12日 · From stagecoach to pneumatic tube, the post office finds a way to get Americans their mail. From an early glider experimenter to the first man to fly solo around the world, here are six...

Six Curtiss JN-4H "Jennies" were the first airplanes to carry mail on a regular schedule. Built for and used by the army as training airplanes for military pilots, the airplanes were donated by the army for the May 15, 1918 airmail flights.

In September 2008, to celebrate 90 years of flying the U.S. mail, three pilots in three vintage mailplanes retraced the original route flown by Airmail pilots in the 1920s. Air & Space followed...