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  1. ▶ Curator Talk Experimental Airmail by SmithsonianNPM
  2. 2 The Philately of New Zealand - Innovation Born ... by SmithsonianNPM
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  6. 6 A-B-C's of Stamp Collecting by Janet Klug by SmithsonianNPM
  7. 7 Growing Up Parker: My Life in Pens by Geoffrey ... by SmithsonianNPM
  8. 8 Rediscovering Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind... by SmithsonianNPM
  9. 9 The Pony Express Diamond Jubilee: Revisiting th... by SmithsonianNPM
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  11. 11 Former Railway Post Office clerk interview: Hea... by SmithsonianNPM
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  24. 24 Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War, by Eliot L... by SmithsonianNPM
  25. 25 Green Ways to Move the Mail: "Learn from the Pa... by SmithsonianNPM
  26. 26 Green Ways to Move the Mail: "Technologies that... by SmithsonianNPM
  27. 27 Green Ways to Move the Mail: "Can We Avert Clim... by SmithsonianNPM
  28. 28 Green Ways to Move the Mail: "Charged Up: A Sho... by SmithsonianNPM
  29. 29 African American Women on Postage Stamps, by Al... by SmithsonianNPM
  30. 30 The Legendary Grinnel Missionaries, David Beech... by SmithsonianNPM
  31. 31 The Royal Philatelic Collection: An Inside View... by SmithsonianNPM
  32. 32 Second Purpose, Roger Brody, Maynard Sundman Le... by SmithsonianNPM
  33. 33 The Miller Collection, Scott Trepel, Maynard Su... by SmithsonianNPM
  34. 34 100 Greatest American Stamps, Janet Klug and Do... by SmithsonianNPM
  35. 35 The Legendary Grinnel Missionaries, David Beech... by SmithsonianNPM
  36. 36 The Royal Philatelic Collection: An Inside View... by SmithsonianNPM
  37. 37 Second Purpose, Roger Brody, Maynard Sundman Le... by SmithsonianNPM
  38. 38 The Miller Collection, Scott Trepel, Maynard Su... by SmithsonianNPM
  39. 39 100 Greatest American Stamps, Janet Klug and Do... by SmithsonianNPM
  40. 40 Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War, by Eliot L... by SmithsonianNPM
  41. 41 The First Canada-US Joint Issue, Charles Verge,... by SmithsonianNPM
  42. 42 The Philately of New Zealand - Innovation Born ... by SmithsonianNPM
 

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Uploaded on Feb 22, 2011

Curator Nancy A. Pope shared the dangerous and fascinating story of early experimental airmail flights on February 18, 2011, the centennial of the Wiseman-Cooke flight from Petaluma to Santa Rosa, California. From 1911 to 1914, postmasters across the country were urged to get involved with local aviation events and encourage pilots to carry mail on their flights.

Ms. Pope refers to the following pilots and aviators: John Wise, the Wright Brothers, Glenn L Curtiss, Frederick Wiseman, Henri Pequet, Gustav Hamel, Jule Vedrines, Earle Ovington, Cal Rogers, Walter Brookins, Lincoln Beachey, Charles Walsh, Farnum T Fish, Horace Kearney, Max Lillie, Paul Peck, Walter Edwards, Katherine Stinson, and Joseph Stevenson.

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