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National Air Mail Week - A Big Deal in 1938

Airline travel was once glamorous, but today it is ho-hum. Airlines for America, a trade association for the biggest airlines, estimates...

"This Was Airplane! Farmer Saves Flyer; Father Breaks Leg": A Crash Cover from 1929

Norman Potter (Figure 1), a 33-year-old airmail pilot from Salt Lake City, woke up the morning of January 5, 1929, expecting a normal day...

Airmail Cover from Salt Lake City to New York, 1926

Today, first-class mail is often carried by planes, but before 1977, air mail was a distinct service from first-class mail, and a sender...

Cover Sent from the USS Iowa Anchored in Tokyo Bay at the End of World War II

This is a historically interesting cover (Figure 1). It has a US Navy postmark from August 30, 1945, in Tokyo Bay, Japan. It is franked...

"Lindbergh Again Flies the Air Mail," February 1928

Charles A. Lindbergh became a household name after he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris in May 1927. But he didn't...

A Trio of Graf Zeppelin Covers from 1930

One of the technological wonders of the 1920s and 1930s was lighter-than-air transport. Indeed, there was a race between which would...