PARIS - On December 25, 1918 a daring French industrialist launched the world's first ever airmail service, flying between the southwestern French city of Toulouse and Barcelona in northeastern Spain. The plan for a regular airmail service was dreamt up in the last months of World War I by visionary captain of industry, Pierre-Georges Latecoere. If it were to work, he would have to build more efficient planes at his Toulouse factory. The Aeropostale saga was just the beginning of a long list of airborne feats around the world between the two World Wars. Among them was the first non-stop transatlantic flight by British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown in 1919.

Source: Bangkok Post December 20, 2018 03:00 UTC