Featuring rare surviving airmail flight covers that document how the air route across the Pacific Ocean was established during the 1920s & 30s, “Airmail Down Under” is on display, pre-security, in the Aviation Museum & Library, located in the IT. https://t.co/BfYpDTYjfD #AirmailThis tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.
Various attempts to cross the Pacific in the 1920s, such as the U.S. Navy’s PN-9 flying boats in 1925, and the Southern Cross in 1928, finally culminated in 1935, when #PanAm opened the first regularly scheduled air service with Sikorsky S-42 & Martin M-130 flying boats. #AirmailThis tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.
In the 1920s, aviation visionaries imagined how the nations of the Pacific Rim could be linked by a new mode of transportation: the aircraft. Lucrative and profitable airmail contracts were awarded by world governments. #Airmail#Australia#AvGeekThis tweet was posted on June 14, 2022.