• 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

Air Mail Pilot's Knee Board and Map

Joseph L. Mortensen navigated the air mail tour from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Reno, Nevada, in 1920 using this scrolling map and knee board.
Gift of Joseph L. Mortense

Image number 2007-13837
Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum

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