Legacy
In 1916 he flew to Washington, D.C. from New York to demonstrate the feasibility of carrying mail by air. Earlier experiments in carrying mail by air had been done, but no regular air mail service existed in the US yet. The trip took 187 minutes, and they flew at an average speed of 78 miles per hour. Alan Hawley was a passenger in the plane flown by Victor Carlstrom. They carried a heavy load of newspapers which represented the "mail". Two years later a regular mail service was established between New York and Washington, D.C., the first in the US. The first official mail flight left on May 15, 1918 from New York to Washington, D.C., with a stop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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