Contributed by Old Orchard Beach Historical Society
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Description
Harry Jones landed on Boston Common in this plane in January 1912.
He convinced Boston authorities to let him fly the first airmail, a package with Boston Baked Beans, to New York to show how efficient airmail was.
It took him 39 days to reach New York, due to weather and mechanical difficulties.
Jones, who spent 20 years in Old Orchard Beach, and had an airport on the beach, using the hardpacked sand at low tide as a runway, was an advocate of aviation safety.
About This Item
- Title: Harry M. Jones, Old Orchard Beach, 1912
- Creation Date: circa 1912
- Subject Date: circa 1912
- Location: Boston Common, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 22 cm x 26 cm
- Local Code: HJScr3_p001_001
- Collection: Harry Jones Scrapbook Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Air pilots--American
- Air mail service
- Airplanes--Massachusetts--Boston
- Jones, Harry M., 1890-1973--Travel
- Safety
- Runways (Aeronautics)
- Air travel
- Flying machines
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Old Orchard Beach Historical SocietyP.O. Box 464, Old Orchard, ME 04064
(207) 934-9319
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