Experts to Tell a New Story about Early Airmail

Jan. 24 lecture by Museum of Flight Curator and Boeing Company historian will reveal the myths about airmail service in the 1920s and 1930s

SEATTLE – Museum Curator Dan Hagedorn and The Boeing Company Historian, Mike Lombardi, combine efforts to help unravel the myths of early airmail delivery in the United States.

For a time in the 1920s and early 1930s, airmail service quickly helped build commercial air service and bring attention to the Army Air Corps at a time when it was plagued by Depression-era politics. The true story of these dramatic events in aviation have long been colored by the inaccurate accounts of the day. The result of years of research by Hagedorn and Lombardi, this insightful program aims to shed new light on the history and influence of airmail’s pivotal period.

This lecture is part of the Museum’s 50th Anniversary Origins of Aerospace Lecture Series.

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