todaysdocument:Pilot William C. Hopson of the U.S. Mail Service in Winter Flying ClothingRegularly s

todaysdocument:Pilot William C. Hopson of the U.S. Mail Service in Winter Flying ClothingRegularly scheduled airmail service first began in the United States on May 15, 1918.  "Wild Bill" Hopson remains one of the more colorful of the early airmail pilots.  A former cab driver who survived several close calls (once landing upside down in a cornfield), he perished when his plane crashed during a storm in 1928.  Check out his “Pilot Story" at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum. -- source link

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