Show E. E Hamilton Lee V Veteran teran Aviator via or Started In in 1913 E E. Hamilton Leo Leo Leo-an an old timer In Ina Ina a young game has game has bec been flying since 1913 He is Is' first ranking pilot in n the United States air main service and when when- a flier filer can cai tall talk talk-j of his air expert expert- s 3 ence of fifteen years ears ago ho is in m qualified aa as a member In good standing landing of the theOld I J Old and Original L c has tag more than hours in the air That means he le is heading oward a mark of a a. a million miles h Joining the air mall in 1018 1918 the year ear of its organization he be became a pioneer in that service flying the early arly experimental routes Lee s I. I today oday the safe and sane custodian fl of f the malls between Chicago and cm Omaha ha fl flying ln from Chicago headquarters head quarters of Boeing Air Transport Ho has landed so often at Chicago's municipal he is more at home there than in Tho The Loop As a n. barnstorming g stunt nt flier he thrilled the crowds of ot 1013 with circus cir cir- cue cus stuff But his stunting days das are over for the air mail malt docs does no aeronautical antics Came tho the war var Md Lee became civilian flying Instructor tor for tor the United States army Here his hours hour of flying exhibition sto stood d him in Eo good d stead d He was made malo In Instructor Instructor In- In In acrobatics With the end of tho war camo the beginning of ot the air m mall ll As senior pilot L Lee e took out one of the first planes over tho government govE air air mall mail route I. I Lee e in those days di earned dreamed of ot a transcontinental air airmail mali mail route Now ho Ito is part of oC theN thew the New N w York San Francisco route o over or r which air mall malJ Is It moved mo in lri two thirty hours with wit the losS losS' of ot only one business day When the gov government decided to turn the transcontinental air airmail mall over to private operators L Lee c hogan began collecting col- col his his' f pay check from Boeing A Air Ir Tr Transport of ot the San Chicago-San Francisco Bay mall mail passenger line |