WHEN I arrived in New York in April of 1919, I soon found the pilots’ hangout was the American Flying Club on East 38th Street. The club was housed in a fine white-front converted residence, filled ...

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One frigid night in February, 1921, Jack “Skinny” Knight, flying some 248 miles from his departure airstrip, scanned the darkness over Omaha for any sign of blazing drums of gasoline. The only thing ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This is the second in a series of posts highlighting the lives and work of the remarkable kings of the skies, the airmail pilots.

Some of the 3,000 commemorative letters sent in the first Postal Department rocket mail are still around. Some made it into the National Postal Museum's collection. National Postal Museum Rockets, ...

The big four US airlines have resorted to flying cargo-only flights as passenger traffic dries up amid the coronavirus pandemic. American, Delta, United, and Southwest are offering their otherwise ...

Gene Mallette has invested heavily in his Alpine Air business to keep a plum contract with the U.S. Postal Service. Airlines have been worried for several years that their lucrative contracts with the ...