Books on US Air Mail?

[Sabrejet]

I was looking at reading up about the development of the US Air Mail system and had an eye on "Mavericks of the Sky" by Rosenberg/Macaulay. However reviews seem to indicate that it's lacking in much-needed graphics and mainly focuses on the early years.

Then "Flying the Beam" by Lehrer seems more of a pilot's book. Others (Piloting the US Air Mail; Flying the Mail) aren't comprehensive enough.

Does anyone have a good book suggestion on this topic? I'd like to read about the period from its beginnings to the start of WW2 if possible.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Time/Life Epic of Flight series, possibly volume 5

 

[mjfur]

Here's some original source documents about Air Mail.

Collection Search Results | Query: "air mail" | page 1 of 609 results | SOVA, Smithsonian Institution

Search results for 'air mail' on the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA). SOVA provides access to primary resource collections maintained by archival units across the Smithsonian.

sova.si.edu

 

[Sabrejet]

Time/Life Epic of Flight series, possibly volume 5

See my comment above; "Others (Piloting the US Air Mail; Flying the Mail) aren't comprehensive enough." This one IIRC dates from 1927, so QED misses out ten years at least.

 

[Sabrejet]

Here's some original source documents about Air Mail.

Collection Search Results | Query: "air mail" | page 1 of 609 results | SOVA, Smithsonian Institution

Search results for 'air mail' on the Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (SOVA). SOVA provides access to primary resource collections maintained by archival units across the Smithsonian.

sova.si.edu

Many thanks: I'll take a look but I was looking for a good holiday read.

 

[Capt. Vick]

See my comment above; "Others (Piloting the US Air Mail; Flying the Mail) aren't comprehensive enough." This one IIRC dates from 1927, so QED misses out ten years at least.

Ooops! Sorry. Didn't read it completely. And would you believe that's one of my biggest pet peeves. SMH