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. Lanphier (second from right) and his local hosts inspect the tail of a CNAC Curtiss C-46 Commando at Hong Kong, China; December 5, 1949. The painted square is ready to be upated with the identifying markings of either the Communist or Nationalist Chinese forces then at war in the area.