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Wrecked Airmail Plane

from Smithsonian Institution

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • hobvias sudoneighm said:
    This image has been used in the indicommons.org post: Just Plane Trouble

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  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Like the image above, a very rare and famous stamp was issued in 1918 -- with the aircraft upside down -- as a result of an "accident" at the Post Office ;-) See the Inverted 1918 'Jenny' Airmail Stamp, Block of Four (National Postal Museum) here.
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    Lt. Torrey Webb at a happier event:

    "First day of Airmail Service, May 15, 1918" by Smithsonian
    First day of Airmail Service, May 15, 1918
  • Pixel Wrangler said:
    According to the National Postal Museum, this is a description of this accident: "Although the JN-4 "Jenny" was most often used by the army airmail pilots, the service did experiment with another airplane. "Lieutenant Webb was asked to fly a Curtiss R-4 aircraft on June 6, 1918. Webb was to carry the mail from New York to Boston on a trial run to connect the two cities by air. Webb carried a passenger, mechanic Robert Heck, with him on the flight. "Lost because of bad weather during the trip, Lieutenant Webb landed in a pasture to get his bearings, then continued on to Franklin Park aviation field in Saugus, Massachusetts. On landing, the airplane hit a mudhole, flipping over. "Fortunately neither Webb nor his mechanic were injured. The airplane was repaired, and Webb returned to New York five days later with mail and another passenger, Boston's postmaster William Murray. Webb noted that weather wasn't much better on the way back. "Visibility was zero-zero, and I just skimmed over the telephone poles all the way." This airplane has been referred to as both a Curtiss R-4 and a Jenny JN-4 . I don't know if that is a contradiction or not.
  • thegreatlandoni said:
    I found this photo in a museum in Denver Colorado:

    An Aeroplane In World War One
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Eastern Air Liner crash landing, Curles Neck Farm

from The Library of Virginia

Eastern Air Liner crash landing, Curles Neck Farm

from The Library of Virginia

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  • Mike said:
    Great view.
  • Seth Gaines said:
    Crazy to think they repaired it and flew it until '53.
  • Ashley Flynn said:
    Interesting.
  • Thomas Ackroyd said:
    Its a Conny ain't it?
  • Terrific Lake said:
    Crop closer to a plane and small shadow.

An accident on Savy Aerodrome during the German offensive in 1918

from Australian War Memorial collection