Colonel Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr. carries the Air Force Association’s Wright Brothers 46th Anniversary Air Mail Envelope on his AFA-sponsored record-setting commerical airline passenger Around the World Flight, December 2-7, 1949. Here, posing with the envelope at the boarding stair of an American Airlines airliner, are (left to right) Robert Burgess, Deputy Assistant Postmaster General; S. L. Beers, associate curator, National Air Museum, Smithsonian Institution; Jo Brown, American Airlines flight attendant; and Lanphier. Washington, D.C., December 2, 1949.