WILLIAM ULBRICH: BELLANCA 'AMERICAN NURSE' PILOT LOST AT SEA 1932 SIGNED COVER!

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WILLIAM ULBRICH: BELLANCA 'AMERICAN NURSE' PILOT LOST AT SEA 1932 SIGNED COVER!
A signed air mail envelope, approximately 4" X 6.75", bearing a clear cachet: "THE NEW YORK AVIATION SHOW * UNDER THE AUSPICES OF * AVIATOR'S POST No. 743 * AMERICAN LEGION * FEB 6th to FEB. 13th" and the cancellation "NEW YORK, N.Y. FEB 13 1929 6-PM". Backstamped SPRINGFIELD, ILL GEN. DEL. FEB 14 1929. Signed above the cachet in a clear hand Wm Ulbrich. Perfect!
ULBRICH, William.
UNSUCCESSFUL RECORD PILOT WHO DISAPPEARED WITH THE “AMERICAN NURSE”.
(1901-32). Transport Pilot rating no. 296 (1928)
[1677]; c
ompany pilot, Ireland Aircraft, Inc., Garden City NY (1929); With H. B. Clarke, two unsuccessful landplane endurance in-flight refuelled attempts in a Bellanca CH
3 Musketeers
at
Roosevelt Field
NY (1929)
[520]
; with Martin and his wife M. "Peg" Jensen, an unsuccessful in-flight refueled endurance attempt in a Bellanca CH
3 Musketeers
at
Roosevelt Field
NY (1929)
[520]
; New York gynecologist Leon M. Pisculli purchased the former
Miss Veedol
, renaming the Bellanca
The American Nurse
for a transatlantic flight from New York with his assistant and nurse Edna Newcomber, pilot Ulbrich and a pet woodchuck named
Tailwind
.
Ms Newcomb planned to parachute from the plane over Florence, Italy as a tribute to Florence Nightingale. They were lost at sea. (1933)
[1275]; they
disappeared over the Atlantic on the New York-Rome flight sponsored by the American Nurses' Aviation Service in the Bellanca
"American Nurse"
(1932)
[0652] [0012]
.
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DO YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN U. S. AIR MAIL SERVICE PILOTS AND CONTRACT AIR MAIL PILOTS?
The U. S. Air Mail Service was formed as a branch of the Post Office Department under the Second Assistant Postmaster General in 1918 and flew air mail until it was disbanded in 1927. There weren't very many of them and the lives of many of them were cut short! The movement of air mail was placed in the hands of contractors in the later twenties. They were two distinct groups of aviators and flew under distinctly different circumstances. What makes the pilots of the U.S. Air Mail Service so interesting to us even today, almost ninety years after the service was disbanded? The answer lies in the kind of men they were, in their acceptance of significant risk in every undertaking, and their single-minded focus on a career in aviation. These men were to the children of the twenties what astronauts were to us in the sixties, railroad engineers were to the children of the nineteenth century and explorers were to still earlier generations. Their lives simply reeked of adventure! When pilots signed up for the Air Mail Service they were required to agree to fly fixed routes in literally any kind of weather. And to do it in antiquated open-cockpit planes with only the most basic of instrumentation, which most knew from their Great War flying to be dangerous under the best of circumstances. In the DH, for instance, the placement of fuel tank, pilot and engine assured that the pilot would be incinerated in any significant crash or nose-over. The hot engine drove the fuel tank into the pilot's lap and heat and fire exploded the escaping vaporized fuel. Yet applications far, far outnumbered the available jobs and the pilots, day after day, accepted their flight schedules and did everything in their power to deliver the mail to the next air mail field on a fixed schedule. By the time air mail flying was placed in the hands of contractors and Contract Air Mail pilots were licensed by the Post Office Department the things had changed dramatically for pilots. Aircraft were purpose-built for air mail, radio had been introduced, weather was much better understood, pilots were carefully selected and trained and the risks of flying were better understood by the executives managing the air mail routes.
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