On
April 15, 1926, at 5:50 a.m., Charles Lindbergh took off on his first
airmail flight. He flew from Chicago to St. Louis, with stops in
Springfield and Peoria. Lindbergh himself had surveyed the 278-mile
route and established flight and postal operations at each of the four
landings.
Lindbergh finally reached St. Louis at 9:15 a.m.
Because his morning flight had generated so much excitement, the amount
of mail loaded onto the afternoon flight (with pilot Phil Love) was
dramatically more than what Lindbergh brought from Chicago that morning.
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