Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-04 | Page 11 | Air Mail Transport Half-Century Old Method of Service

Air Mail Transport Half-Century Old Method of Service M.ONPON. Oct. 9 (Bv the ASSO-I ASSO-I dated Press.) Use of aerial mail serv-jice serv-jice in ihe recent railroad strike in Grcnl Britain called attention to the I fact that transport of mails b air is co;-c upon a half century old. The fir?; atrial posts on record were Ihose com eyed b balloon nut of be-j be-j ifacuTid Farm in September, 1870 Tun 'f- later 'he I" n t ish admiralty conducted a series of tests to ascer-' ascer-' tain the practieabilit of utilizing balloon bal-loon on an extensive scale for the rarryinp: of mails but these tests re- suited in nothing of importance 1 India was the ,cene of the first ex-I ex-I periment in the conveyance of mails ( bv heavier than-air machines It con- istd of the carrying of some 5, I letters bv n British pilot in a biplane I a distance of one mile at Allahabad, in !H1 I Later In the same year the same ' pjo carried the first United Kingdom ?erial post inaugurated between London Lon-don and Windsor The first long-dis- lance postal flight also occurred in 1911 v. ii a Fn-neh a mi m arried la quantity of letters from Issy-les-Mol-jincux lo Deauville 112 mile The world war put the airplane to the final tea as an aid to postal com-I com-I mimical ion. In May, 1917, italj estab-I estab-I lishod an air post service between Rone and Turin deiem-d to relieve IcoDseslion on .-1 a t . railways caused by the transport of troops and war material, a seaplane post irom Naples to Palermo followed to avoid the sub-,1 sub-,1 narinc menace, which interrupted the ,1 rftrular boat service l The United States created the first I 5 regular daily air post connecting New York. Philadelphia and Washington on May 15, 1918. A daily post by air between Vienna and Kiev, Russia, via Cracow and Lemberg was maintained by Austria (for six months in 1918, about 1,000 letters let-ters being carried on each flight. Within the past few months regular air postal services have sprung up in France, Morocco, Tunis. Switzerland. Germany, South America, and others being contemplated in the Belgian Congo, South Africa, Egypt and India j The efficiency of the alt-posts de-U de-U eloped during the nine days of the j recent railroadmen's strike has greatly great-ly popularized the idea with the Eng-llish Eng-llish public and officialdom oo