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Wild Bill
Wild Bill flew the mail for eight years in the 1920s. He earned his nickname by breaking speed records and damaging airplanes. He was popular with other pilots but regularly scolded by his supervisors!
He died in 1928 when his airplane crashed on the New York to Chicago route. He was carrying a thousand pounds of mail, including a large shipment of diamonds. Only 10 pounds of mail were saved from the plane's wreckage, but the diamonds disappeared. |