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...aviation meet near Garden City, L. I., Earle Lewis Ovington was sworn in as ''air mail pilot number one." He climbed into his Blériot monoplane Dragonfly, received a sack of mail from Postmaster-General Frank Harris Hitchcock, flew six miles to Mineola and dumped the sack (which he had been holding on his lap) at the feet of Postmaster William McCarthy. Seven years elapsed before regular airmail service was attempted in the U. S. with an experimental route between New York and Washington. But sentimentalists of aviation like to think of Earle Ovington's flight...
...Garden City, the 1911 flight was to be reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...
Bertram Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta, co-pilot on the Byrd trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, was released from jail at Mineola (L. I.) after serving five and one-half months of a six-month term for non-support of his wife and two children, who met him at the gates, welcomed him, took him home...
Died. Thomas Hastings, 69, famed Manhattan architect (Carrère & Hastings); at Mineola, L. I.; after an operation for appendicitis...
Laws. To draft a uniform aviation code to be adopted by all States, government representatives, legislators, lawyers and flyers met at Mineola, L. I., last week. Their preliminary recommendations included punishments for flying while drunk, reckless stunting, flying so low as to endanger persons on the ground, making too much noise with the motor, landing on and damaging private property. During the past year state legislatures entertained 250 heterogeneous bills on aviation. Of these 106 were enacted...