Wings Across America

WINGS ACROSS AMERICA captures the formative years of the U.S. Air Mail Service and includes photographs and exclusive interviews of the great air mail pilots by deceased co-author Jesse Davidson. Bruce McAllister has supplemented the historical photographs with new color photography, linking the present with the past. This coffee table book includes the development of the coast-to-coast air mail service, as well as the first air mail flights in Alaska and between Canada and the United States.

Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Aeroplane Station No. 1	p. 13
Katherine Stinson: Air Mail Aviatrix	p. 23
Liftoff!	p. 31
From Khakis to Civies	p. 43
Hell's Stretch: Surviving the Allegheny Mountains	p. 57
Going West with Nutter	p. 71
Memorable and Mortal Flights	p. 79
The First Transcontinental Flight	p. 91
Flying the Alaska Air Mail	p. 101
Flying the Mail Through the Night	p. 113
From Omaha to the Golden Gate	p. 131
North America's First International Air Mail Flight	p. 153
Expanding the Contract Air Mail Routes	p. 161
The Airlines Are Born	p. 175
Air Mail First-Day Covers	p. 201
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 210
About the Authors	p. 212
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