"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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The VERY FIRST air mail flight departed from Washington DC
in 1918 (they were using Army planes now that the great war
was over). It departed from a field in DC which is now use
as a polo field. The plane was heading off towards Baltimore
with a bag of mail but was forced down by weather and the
mail went on by surface.


That was not the VERY FIRST air mail flight. On September 9th, 1911, 23
pounds of mail was flown from London to Windsor in a Bleriot monoplane.
Nineteen more flights were made in the following two weeks.