Word: maile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twin-engined bomber with a crew of three and the southbound mail, landed at Daytona Beach, Fla. It was five hours late, and fuel in the right wing tank was running low. When it took off again Private Ernest Bair Sell was in the middle cockpit, pumping fuel by hand. At 500 ft. both engines quit. The plane plumped into a cypress swamp. Private Sell's head was mortally smashed...
Through the sky Death continued to dog the Army Air Corps carrying the mail. All in one day last week the following occurred...
...Lieut. Otto Wienecke, a seasoned Army pilot who had flown less than 24 hr. in the last 18 months, was ramming a planeload of mail from, Newark, N. J. through a snowstorm, toward Cleveland. About 20 mi. short of his goal, he groped for a landing. His plane crashed on John Hess's farm near Burton, Ohio. Farmer Hess ran to the wreck, shook the pilot's shoulder. Lieut. Wienecke did not budge. His neck was broken...
...from Cheyenne, Wyo. flew an Army observation plane with Lieuts. Frank L. Howard and Arthur R. Kerwin Jr., on a practice mail flight to Salt Lake City. The ship circled the town once, headed west from the airport when the motor began spitting. Slanting downward the plane whipped through a high tension line, bored into the ground, burst into flame. Lieuts. Howard & Kerwin were cremated...
...Army Air Corps was given the temporary assignment of carrying the airmail. . . . This action was taken on the definite assurance given me that the Army Air Corps could carry the mail...