Amazing photo of an Aeromarine flying boat flying over Bimini in the Bamahas. Photo date 17 January 1922 according to one source, but photo reportedly issued as a postcard in the autumn of 1921. Columbus sank between Key West and Havana on 13 January with the loss of four passengers and mail. Photo from: Smithsonian Institution

'The first plane of the new transcontinental air line, of which Col. Lindbergh is one of the organizers, photographed at Boiling Fields [sic].' Bolling Field was the same runway as Anacostia until 1935, when the US Army moved to a new Bolling Field nearby. TAT offered the first coast-to-coast air service between New York and Los Angeles in 1929, although the 48-hour journey involved a night train between NY and Columbus, Ohio and another one between Waynoka, Oklahoma and Clovis, New Mexico. 'Take A Train' soon merged with Maddux Air Lines, and then with Western Air Express to form TWA in 1930. Photo from: Library of Congress