The first official airmail flight took wings today in 1911.
French pilot Henry Pequet, representing the Humber Motor Company of England at the Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition in Allahabad, India, carried over 6,000 cards and letters on his Humber-Sommer biplane a distance of 13 km (8.1 miles) from Allahabad to Naini, India. He made the journey in …
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