1945 express delivery of perishable produce
Saunie considers C-60 Lockheed Lodestar. That will change. But Newark Evening News reporter gives extensive Air Express details.
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FOOTNOTES
All the Posts with Footnotes.
KY journalist covers people, plans, glider, turkeys.
DC-3 Captain Robert Montanarello, left seat, is first hire of the Veterans Air Flight Crews.
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Glider on the horizon
A scheduled cargo flight of ice-packed turkeys in a DC-3-towed-glider. A historic flight?
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Greenleaf Sr. saves CAB worldwide route filing
Veterans Air Express prepared a CAB route app – for permanent, scheduled service, worldwide authority. It reveals hopes & intentions of the Vets & their investors.
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Florida ideal secondary maintenance location
Growing business. VAE’s 2nd ops base. WWII Hendricks Field to transition to Sebring Air Terminal. Archives tell the story.
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“Experimental” DC-4 expedited for UNRRA war relief flights
An “experimental” DC-4. A high-energy group of hardworking ex-servicemen. A Veterans Air Express UNRRA contract for cargo flights behind the iron curtain. And Newark/Miami winter passenger flights. By mid-1946, the all-veterans organization was becoming recognized and starting to thrive.
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DC-4 converted at Sebring FL ops base
Company techs convert an Army C-54 to second cargo DC-4 in just 13 days. But too slow military-to-civilian airfield negotiations hinder FL ops plans.
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1946 Warsaw 5-Part series by Michael Frome
A gathering of 1946 Warsaw By-line headlines by Michael Frome – Washington Post Staff Writer and Veterans Air DC-4 Navigator.
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1946 Veterans Air Crew Manifests for UNRRA War-Relief Flights
In 1946, contracted by United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration, Veterans Air flew five war-relief cargos of fertilized hatching eggs to Prague and Warsaw and one flight to Athens of dairy breeding calves.
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CAB 1948 “Order Dismissing Applications” turns up
Ironic Proof of CAB Applications – and no CAB responses In October 2015, an undated Civil Aeronautics Board Application for worldwide routes surfaced and created more questions than it answered. It was among John Greenleaf, Sr.’s papers. He had spoken about the application with his son, John, Jr, telling him he couldn’t remember why he
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