# " OF MEN AND WINGS " 1918 - 1940 HISTORY OF AIR MAIL & PASSENGER FLIGHT UNITED AIRLINES 65034

This late 1940s black and white travel film highlights 25 years of coast-to-coast flights and events by the year. It is narrated by radio announcer Del Sharbutt and produced by B.K. Blake. 1918, President Wilson joins a crowd to celebrate the first day of airmail. Mail lis oaded into a JN-4H (:50- 1:50 ). 1920, suffragettes march. President Harding rides in a carriage ( 1:52 - 2:05 ). Mail is flown coast-to-coast. Indians dance around the plane ( 2:07 - 2:40 ). 1924, a bi-plane marked U.S. Mail is loaded and takes off. Red Grange plays football. Roosevelt addresses the Democratic Convention at Madison Square Gardens. Young women in one-piece bathing suits participate in the Atlantic City beauty pageant ( 2:42 - 4:03 ). 1925, arc lights light runways at night. A bi-plane taxis in the spotlight ( 4:05 - 4:32 ). 1926, privately-own planes carried mail, including National Air Transport, Boeing Air Transport, Barney Airlines, Pacific Air Transport. These later merge to become United Air Lines (United Airlines). Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel ( 4:34 - 5:36 ). 1927, Bill Boeing’s wife christens the Boeing 40 mail plane that could also carry two passengers. A Varney Air Lines airplane carried four passengers ( 5:38 - 6:19 ). 1928, C.C. Pyle runs in the Bunion Derby. A large dance marathon is held on a beach ( 6:20 - 6:47 ). 1929, air mail flights were lighted from coast to coast. The Ford Tri-motor carried 14 passengers. Boeing added stewardesses. A meteorologist checks…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: History, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/65034OfMenAndWingsVwr)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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