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AIRMAIL CREATES AN INDUSTRY: Building the Foundation

One of several experimental airmail flights undertaken in 1912. Seated in a Curtiss-manufactured aircraft is pilot Lincoln Beachey. Beachey carried mail on May 16, 1912 during the Marietta (Ohio) Daily Journal Aviation Meet.


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