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| Keywords: smithsonian institution smithsonianinstitution omaha airmail usps plane wagon truck mail early aviation earlyaviation postal service postalservice nebraska 1924 01.50 am 0150am u.s. mail usmail biplane package del labor aviation us postal service uspostalservice airplane mail delivery maildelivery pilot letter frank yager frankyager de havilland dehavilland de havilland dh.4. de havilland dh.4b dehavillanddh4dehavillanddh4b dh.4 dh4 dh.4b dh4b yager national postal museum nationalpostalmuseum frank r. yager frankryager air mail pilot airmailpilot omaha, nebraska omahanebraska mail across the commons mailacrossthecommons blackandwhite monochrome black and white Description: The Post Office Department inaugurated its first regularly scheduled transcontinental flights during day and night on July 1, 1924. The addition of lighted airfields and a path of beacon lights across the country allowed airmail pilots to fly by night as well as during the day. The deHavilland (DH-4B) airplane had been flown by airmail pilot Frank Yager, who had left North Platte, Nebraska, for Omaha at 11:20 p.m. When he reached Omaha, over 3,000 people had crowded the airfield to welcome him. Text on the photograph notes that it was made "by use of field flood lights." Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Date: 1924 Collection: U.S. Airmail Service Repository: National Postal Museum Accession number: A.2006-8 Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194260 View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. Description: The Post Office Department inaugurated its first regularly scheduled transcontinental flights during day and night on July 1, 1924. The addition of lighted airfields and a path of beacon lights across the country allowed airmail pilots to fly by night as well as during the day. The deHavilland (DH-4B) airplane had been flown by airmail pilot Frank Yager, who had left North Platte, Nebraska, for Omaha at 11:20 p.m. When he reached Omaha, over 3,000 people had crowded the airfield to welcome him. Text on the photograph notes that it was made "by use of field flood lights." Creator/Photographer: Unidentified photographer Medium: Black and white photographic print Culture: American Date: 1924 Collection: U.S. Airmail Service Repository: National Postal Museum Accession number: A.2006-8 Persistent URL: arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=194260 View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution. | ||||
