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Air Mail Through the Skies Christmas Bookish Flight Tales
A nostalgic piece by Elmo Scott Watson chronicles air mail and air express at Christmas. It highlights pilots, Pratt and Whitney engines, perishable gifts, and the evolution from early 1918 routes to private operation, including the use of radio beams guiding planes across the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Air Lines
Elmo
Scott Watson
Air, Mail
Air Express
United States
Dasher
Dancer
Prancer
Vixen
Dander
Blitzen
Santa
Pratt and Whitney
Curtiss
Fokker
Boeing
Corsair
Express
Los Angeles
Mlinois
Santa Claus
Harry S. New
United States Postmaster-General
War Department
Washington
New York
Waldorf
Philadelphia
Post Office Department
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicago
Western Newspaper Union