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[[image - montage of various aircraft]]

-Montage by ERNEST A. KEHR

The Pageant of Air Mail Service - Reading across from top, left to right: Constellation-type Clipper; A cabin helicopter flying above the nation's capitol in Washington; One of the 80-passenger, 340-mile-an-hour Clippers built by Boeing for Pan American; The Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk on Dec. 17, 1903; Dr. John Jefferies' flight across the English Channel in 1785; The giant 204-passenger Clipper which Pan American World Airways soon will operate on its global routes; A stratosphere balloon; The DO-X, monstrous flying boat upon its arrival in Miami; Louis Bleriot's plane in which he crossed the English Channel on July 25, 1909; The U. S. S. Akron, largest of American lighter-than-air craft, arrives at the National Air Races, Miami, 1933; Otto Lillienthal in his famous glider, Aug. 10, 1896, and an early bi-plane used to carry air mail in the 1920's.