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Sep 18, 2009 7:48am
Pilot Wm. C. Hopson, U.S. Mail Service Winter Flying Clothing Omaha, Nebraska, ca. 1926 (photographer unknown) “Airplane pilots were celebrities in the 1920s. This mail service pilot posed in an outfit that not only emphasized his suit’s advantages for open cockpit flying and his status as a risk-taking adventurer, but that underscored his masculine good looks. National Archives, Records of the Post Office Department (28-MS-6E-1)” The Way We Worked - Photographs from The National Archives Big thank you to Uncertain Times

Pilot Wm. C. Hopson, U.S. Mail Service Winter Flying Clothing

Omaha, Nebraska, ca. 1926

(photographer unknown)

“Airplane pilots were celebrities in the 1920s. This mail service pilot posed in an outfit that not only emphasized his suit’s advantages for open cockpit flying and his status as a risk-taking adventurer, but that underscored his masculine good looks.

National Archives, Records of the Post Office Department (28-MS-6E-1)”

The Way We Worked - Photographs from The National Archives



Big thank you to Uncertain Times
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