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Monday, March 05, 2012

Robert Shank and the first airmail plane crash (a Curtiss-Jenny JN-4H)

This is a photo of the first crash of a U.S. airmail plane. Robert Shank was one the first four pilots hired to fly the mail and was assigned to a Belmont Park, New York, airfield. He survived the crash in his Curtiss-Jenny JN-4H, which landed nose down in the woods. That's Shank himself checking out the damage.

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