United States airmail was a service class of the United States Post Office Department (USPOD) and its successor United States Postal Service (USPS) delivering air mail by aircraft flown within the United States and its possessions and territories.

Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send.

2006年2月22日 · On May 15, 1918, the United States officially established its airmail service with inaugural flights between Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. Army planes... From early planes that could barely clear a few feet off the ground, to planes that could carry passengers and mail across oceans and continents, a wide range of...

2018年4月30日 · With aircraft like the Boeing 40C and Stearman Speedmail, and with pilots like Charles Lindbergh, contract mail carriers laid the foundation for the most expansive national air transportation...

Unpredictable weather, unreliable equipment, and inexperience led to frequent crashes; 34 airmail pilots died from 1918 through 1927. Gradually, through trial and error and personal sacrifice, U.S. Air Mail Service employees developed reliable navigation aids and …

During its existence, the Post Office-operated airmail service used several type of airplanes, from wooden biplanes to all metal monoplanes. Eddie Gardner posed with his Curtiss JN-4H in 1918. The first plane the Airmail Service used was a modification of the …

Air Mail 100 will commemorate that historic event, which led within the decade to the commencement of commercial passenger air service.

AIRMAIL翻译：航空邮政;航空邮递。 了解更多。

United States airmail was a service class of the United States Post Office Department (USPOD) and its successor United States Postal Service (USPS) delivering air mail by aircraft flown within the United States and its possessions and territories.

Postal officials hired pilots and mechanics, purchased airplanes and equipment, established aviation routes and led the nation into the commercial aviation age. Glossary: Airmail. An En Route article about air pick-up. In 1921, army navigational beacons between Columbus and Dayton, Ohio, guided pilots at night.