[Boeing Air Mail aircraft in flight]

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Identifier1996-11-26_image_045SourceThe Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers (1996-11-26), Box 1, Folder 6CreatorBoeing Air TransportDescriptionPhotograph of a Boeing Model 40B aircraft (tail number C286, route C.A.M. 18) in flight over mountains, circa late 1920s.

Typed caption: "THE 'NIGHT TRANSCONTINENTAL' -- The climax for speed in transcontinental communication was achieved May 1 when mail was flown between New York and Atlantic seaboard cities and California in thirty- two hours with the loss of only one business day. Approximately sixty per cent of this 2700-mile airway is flown at night.

"This picture shows a plane of Boeing Air Transport, which flies two-thirds of the transcontinental route, in flight over western mountains. Its powerful Hornet engine drives it at a top [cut off] 142 miles an hour with its load of 60,000 letters [cut off]."

Stamped on verso: "Please credit this photo to Boeing Air Transport System."
Creation Datecirca late 1920sSubjectAir mail serviceBoeing Air TransportBoeing Model 40BExtent1 photograph : print, black and white ; 8.5 x 11 in.LanguageEnglishOriginal Formatphotographic printsBibliographic CitationThe Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers/The Museum of FlightRightsNo copyright - United States

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