USA PIONEER AIRMAILS – beautiful book, hardbound

Description

The Pioneer Airplane Mails of the United States
by Thomas J. O’Sullivan.

This 346 page book is the most comprehensive study of U.S. Pioneer airmail flights and mail. It covers 99 different mail-carrying flights during the period between 1910 and 1916. four of which have not yet been included in the American Air Mail Catalogue. In its five chapters, the author provides details of the pioneer flights, their pilots and experiences, and the mail they carried. The book is replete with 273 illustrations of old news accounts, aircraft and covers.