airmailacrossthecommons

3 photos tagged airmailacrossthecommons, from 2 members of Flickr Commons.

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2008

 

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JR-1B mail airplane designed by the Standard Aircraft Corporation

from Smithsonian Institution

  • Charlie J said:
    Only six of the JR-1 planes were sold to the US Mail Service in 1918 -- as model JR-1B. They were equipped with the 150hp Wright-Hisso A.
  • psupilot86 said:
    I have additional photos of Max Miller with this plane # 1. It is pictured in Lock Haven Pa with my great Uncle Paul Brosious who was the post master at the time. My pictures do not have the mailbag appearing but it is plane # 1.
  • psupilot86 said:
    I take it back... I just looked at the pictures that I have and the mail bag is on the plane. I never noticed it before as it is not as noticeable with the angles of my pictures. I have a series of 9 pictures from the day including one of the plane in flight.

Ovington with mail. [plane] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    Earle Ovington, America's first airmail pilot, with his wife:
  • Wystan said:
    Other Bain/LOC photos of Earle Lewis Ovington, receiving the first pouch of U. S. Airmail for delivery, from U. S. Postmaster General Frank Harris Hitchcock :

de Havilland Airmail Plane and Mail Truck

from Smithsonian Institution

  • Alfs photodiary said:
    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called De Havilland, and we'd love to have this added to the group!