#airmail
#airmail is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 9 people shared 48 posts with it โ around 2 a day. Activity is up 1233% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 17 with 17 posts.
#airmail posts per day (last 30 days)
Posts with #airmail
@lronlacy.bsky.social
all nations much closer together . . . London a scant few hours away . . . Airliners of 100 tons and more competing with surface ships for world-wide passenger, express and freight traffic. Great technical progress, born of war, makes such developments an inevitable reality.โ
@lronlacy.bsky.social
#OTD in 1944 ๐งต๐ โNo Ma'am, $30 Million Ain't Hayโ Illustration by #JamesBingham (1917-1971) #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #airlines #airports #airtravel โIn 1943, Uncle Sam took in something like $30,000,000 more on the sale of airmail stamps โก๏ธ
@lronlacy.bsky.social
#OTD in 1928 ๐งต Pilot Wm. C. Hopson, US Mail Service. Winter flying clothing. โWilliam Hopson, better known as "Wild Bill," was a popular early air mail pilot. ... After the airmail service was transferred from the Post Office Department to commercial aviation companies, Hopson โก๏ธ
@lronlacy.bsky.social
#OTD in 1924: Transcontinental Air Mail U.S. Post Office Department map of the First Transcontinental #AirMail Route involving both day and night flying over the entire route opened July 1, 1924. The #CooperCollection of #AeroPostalHistory #SaveTheUSPS #USPostalService
@lronlacy.bsky.social
all nations much closer together . . . London a scant few hours away . . . Airliners of 100 tons and more competing with surface ships for world-wide passenger, express and freight traffic. Great technical progress, born of war, makes such developments an inevitable reality.โ
@lronlacy.bsky.social
#OTD in 1928 ๐งต Pilot Wm. C. Hopson, US Mail Service. Winter flying clothing. โWilliam Hopson, better known as "Wild Bill," was a popular early air mail pilot. ... After the airmail service was transferred from the Post Office Department to commercial aviation companies, Hopson โก๏ธ
@lronlacy.bsky.social
#OTD in 1923: the #AUTOGYRO! (1940) ๐๐งต โThe Court of Peace at the #NewYorkWorldsFair of 1940 saw the first landing of an aircraft within the fair grounds today (Aug 19, 1940) with the landing of an Eastern Air Lines mail autogiro by Captain John Miller, who later in the day โก๏ธ
@lronlacy.bsky.social
#OTD in 1924: Transcontinental Air Mail U.S. Post Office Department map of the First Transcontinental #AirMail Route involving both day and night flying over the entire route opened July 1, 1924. The #CooperCollection of #AeroPostalHistory #SaveTheUSPS #USPostalService
@lronlacy.bsky.social
#OTD in 1944 ๐งต๐ โNo Ma'am, $30 Million Ain't Hayโ Illustration by #JamesBingham (1917-1971) #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #airlines #airports #airtravel โIn 1943, Uncle Sam took in something like $30,000,000 more on the sale of airmail stamps โก๏ธ
@lronlacy.bsky.social
For #AUGUST 1927 ๐งต๐ Cover of *Popular Science*, August 1927 Illustration by Herbert Paus (1880-1946), showing what looks like the 12-seater Fokker F-10 - often used from the late 20s for both passenger service and airmail - and looking ahead to the prospect of โก๏ธ
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