“During the first three crucial years of the airmail, from 1918 to 1921, a total of 26 pilots, mechanics and field personnel were killed. Airmail averaged one fatality a month, and an airmail pilot could expect to fly less than two years before dying on the job. It was clearly the most dangerous job in the world.”
MAVERICKS OF THE SKY, The First Daring Pilots of the U.S. Air Mail
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