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. After crossing the International Date Line, Lanphier squats to look at a gooney bird (Laysan Albatross) nesting on Midway Island; December 5, 1949.