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- New Method of Speeding Up Communications, The Non-Stop Aerial Postman," 1928 - Air mail service was intended to speed up mail delivery. But landing an airplane to collect bags of mail slowed things down. Air mail operators in the United Kingdom experimented with nonstop pickup. A mail bag was suspended just off the ground between two posts and then snagged by a hook hanging from a passing plane.
- 1928
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New Method of Speeding Up Communications, The Non-Stop Aerial Postman," 1928
Air mail service was intended to speed up mail delivery. But landing an airplane to collect bags of mail slowed things down. Air mail operators in the United Kingdom experimented with nonstop pickup. A mail bag was suspended just off the ground between two posts and then snagged by a hook hanging from a passing plane.