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combinations. Thus even "regular" mail may make part of its journey on an aircraft. Such "air-speeded" mail is different from nominal airmail in its branding, price, and priority of service.
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generated immediate interest in using them for mail transport. An unofficial airmail flight was conducted by Fred
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Australia's first airmail contract was awarded to Norman (later Sir) Brearley's
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stationed in Germany with a fast mail service. (see more at
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History of Air Cargo and Airmail from the 18th Century
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for airmail, issued by the United States in May 1918.
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56:. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
1407:Mailshot – A history of the Forces Postal Service
1396:Nevil Shute, "So Disdained", London, 1928, Ch. 1
1437:Excess Profits: The Rise of United Technologies
1188:"Earle Orvington and the First Air Mail Flight"
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116:Learn how and when to remove this message
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1294:"100 Years of Sending Mail by Aeroplane"
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1055:"The First Airmail Flight in the World"
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1455:Standard Handbook of Stamp Collecting
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2138:Multiline Optical Character Reader
1245:Fifty Years of Australian Airmails
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943:. HistoryNet.com. 12 June 2006.
571:, or dirigible mail. The German
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1186:DeSalvo, Glen (November 2013).
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360:Introduction of the aeroplane
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1349:Bibliography of Aeronaustics
1264:Baldwin, N.C. (1960), p. 5,
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143:1912 German airmail between
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1209:American Philatelic Society
1159:S. B. Bhattacherje (2009).
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2081:Surface Air Lifted (SAL)
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1343:Palmer, John R. (1938).
1109:by Camille Allaz, p. 26.
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21:Airmail (disambiguation)
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283:William Temple Franklin
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1467:. Bloomsbury, 2006.
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