• The World's First Scheduled Airline
• The Post Office Begins Flying the Mail
• The Curtiss JN-4D Jenny
• Regularly Scheduled Air Mail Service Begins
• Air Mail Service Takes Root
• Flying the Mail at Night
• A Daring Demonstration
• How Did Air Mail Pilots Find Their Way?
  • Wild Bill
  • What Was It Like To Fly?
• Early Airlines
  • Who Flew?
• Early Aircraft Technology
  • Engine Technology: Water-Cooled Engines
• Airlines Take Over Carrying the Mail

DH-4 and Tractor

Europeans led the world in aeronautics after World War I. Adolf Rohrbach built a series of advanced all-metal aircraft, including this Zeppelin E.4/20.

Image number 95-2855
Credit: National Air and Space Museum Archives

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