Today in aviation history – September 23, 1911
September 23rd, 2009
Earle Lewis Ovington carries the first US AirMail in a Bleriot XI from Garden City to Mineola, New York. 640 letters and 1,280 postcards in a sack were tossed over the side as he flew over Mineola. The sack burst on impact scattering the mail.
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