Flying The Mail - Time Life Books

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Description: ENDPAPER - After Landing his D.H.4 safely at a Midwestern airfield in the face of a fast-brewing storm, a United States mail pilot clambers out of the cockpit as ground crew unload his cargo. In this authentically detailed scene of the airmail's early ears by French aviation artist Paul Legelle, a postal cleark checks the mailbags and packages against a manifest before they are loaded into the waiting truck. Meanwhile, as lightning strickes over the hangar, a second pilot circles to land the de Havilland he had taken up for an engine test. The Author - Donald Dale Jackson, a former staff writer for Life, has written two volumes for Time-Life Books in the American WIlderness series; Sagebrush Country and, with Peter WOod, The Sierra Madre. He spent a year at Harvard University as a Nieman Fellow. Among his other books are Judges, a history of the United States judicial system, and Gold Dust, a narrative history of the California gold rush. For Flying the Mail, he traveled extensively, interviewing individuals associates with the airmail's early days. The Consultants for Flying the mail - Jesse Davidson, an avid collector of photographs of the United States Air Mail Service and chronicler of its past, is the owner of the extensive Jesse Davidson Air Mail History Archives in New York City. A licensed pilot and retired editor of aviation magazinees, he began his research into the airmail in the early 1950s, gathering materials fromearly ground personel and pilots. He is the author of Famous Firsts in Aviation. Roger E. Bilstein, Professor of History at the University of Houston at Clear Lake City, Texas, has extensively researched the early United States airmail and its socioeconomic impact. ALso a specialist in aerospace, he was a Visting Scholar at the National Air and Space Museum in 1977-1978. The Author - Dr. richard P. Hallion is the historian of the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Formerly, Dr. Hallion was Curator of Science and Technology and of Space, Science and Exploration at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Test Pilots and Supersonic Flight. The Consultants - Dr. Tom D. Crouch, the principal consultant, is Curator of Aeronautics at the National Air and Spce Museum in Washington. He has written several books and acrticles on the early history of aviation, and is also an avid balloonist in his spare time. Dr. Howard S. Wolko, a specialist in aircraft structures, is an Advisor on Technology and Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum. The author of numerous technical papers and monographs, he also participated in the development of several of the X-series of experimental research airplanes. The Author -0 Edward Jablonski, historian and biographer, is the author of more than 20 books, most of them on aeronautical themes, including Flying Fortess, Warriors With Wings and the authoritative four-volume Airwar. He has been an aviation enthusiast since boyhood and is a member of the American Aviation Historical Society. The Consultants for America in the Air War - Donald S. Lopez, who holds a master's degree in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology, is Chairman of the Aeronautics Department of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D. C. During World War II, he became an ace flying P-40 fighters in China under General Claire Lee Chennault. After serving with the Air Force until 1964, he spent eight years as a systems engineer on the Apoll0-Saturn launch vehicle and the Skylab orbital workshop before joining the Smithsonian Institution in 1972. Robert C. Mikesh, Curator of Aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Insitution, was commissioned as a pilot in the Air Force in 1950. During the Korean War he flew B-26 Invaders on night tactical bombing raids and won a Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters, His special interest, developed after long service in the Far Eaast, is Japanese aviation history, and he has published numerous articles and books about the aircraft flow in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Status: No Longer Available	Reference#: 0712004
Condition: Excellent	Year: 1982
Height: 10.5 in. (26.67 cm)
Width: 9.5 in. (24.13 cm)
Title: Flying The Mail - Time Life Books

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