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The romance behind the famous B-17’s name.
May 1990 | By Elaine de Man

The 1984 open house at Tempelhof.

November 2008 | By CHARLES BRADY

With mops and a hose, a crew scrubs a Martin B-26 Marauder bomber in 1944.

November 2008 | By Roger A. Mola

So popular is the Navion that airplane lvoers consider a complete restoration, like David Peters

From the designers who brought you the P-51 Mustang, an airplane with a complicated past…and a controversial present.
November 2008 | By Mark Huber

Otto Praeger

On the 20th anniversary of airmail service, three key players recalled the early days.
September 17, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

San Dimas, California, a suburb of Lost Angeles, boasts a population of 36,200.

For an entire week in 1938, the country celebrated airmail.
September 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

In 1923, U.S. Air Mail DH-4s were equipped with lights on the nose and on wingtips for night flying.

The civil engineering project that got the airmail through the night.
September 16, 2008 | By Linda Shiner

A crashed Martin MB-1 mailplane, one of many in the service

Finding an airplane to deliver the mail should have been easy.
September 12, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Airmail pilots (from left) Jack Knight, Harvey Lange, Lawrence Garrison, “Wild Bill” Hopson, and Andrew Dunphy pose for photographer Nathaniel Dewell in 1922.

During the 1920s, photographer Nathaniel Dewell produced iconic portraits of airmail’s finest.
September 12, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Addison Pemberton pilots his restored Boeing 40C earlier this year. On the September 10 flight, the author rode in the compartment beneath the upper wing.

Onboard “Airmail 1” for the first leg of the trip, from New York to Bellefonte.
September 11, 2008 | By Rebecca Maksel

Reno, Nevada, Postmaster Austin Jackson (left) hands a mail bag to pilot Harry Huking in his DH-4 mailplane, July 1924.

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By The Editors

A Varney Air Lines Swallow outside the airmail hangar at Elko, Nevada in April 1926.

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

A light beacon tower (used for night flying) on the airmail field in North Platte, Nebraska in the mid-1920s. The field boundary light is visible in the right foreground.

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

DH-4 mailplanes at Fort Crook airfield, Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1920s.

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

Aerial view of an airmail light beacon tower, somewhere along the New York to Chicago route, in the mid-1920s.

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

After his career with the airmail service, Knight flew for United Airlines between 1934 and 1937, when the airline was still flying single engine Boeing aircraft. By the time Knight retired, he had flown more than 2 million miles.

The man who saved the airmail describes “Hell Stretch.”
September 09, 2008 | By Jack Knight

U.S. Air Mail personnel with a De Havilland DH-4 mailplane at the Bellefonte, Pennsylvania airfield, December 1923.

Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, had one brief, shining moment when airmail pilots used it as a stopover. Then they went away, leaving only memories.
October 1991 | By Donald Dale Jackson

A Boeing 40C (background) and a 1927 Stearman C3B biplane are two of the three airplanes recreating the cross-country airmail route.

Three historic mailplanes commemorated the anniversary of U.S. airmail by tracing the original coast-to-coast route.
September 08, 2008 | By Linda Shiner

Landing field at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, October 1935. Note the "large white circle" called out in the directions.

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.
September 03, 2008 | By Tony Reichhardt

Five years after Kitty Hawk, the Wrights finally showed the world their invention.
August 29, 2008 | By Tom D. Crouch

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