Pearson Mail Pilot
AirMail Pilot Leonard Hyde-Pearson

To my Beloved Brother Pilots and Pals....I go west, but with a cheerful heart. I hope what small sacrifice I have made may be useful to the cause.

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DeHavilland DH-4

When we fly we are fools, they say. When we are dead we weren't half-bad fellows. But everyone in this wonderful aviation service is doing the world far more good than the public can appreciate. We risk our necks: we give our lives; we perfect a service for the benefit of the world at large. They, mind you, are the ones who call us fools.

But stick to it boys. I am still very much with you all. See you all again.

Leonard Brooke Hyde-Pearson offered these words for all of the air mail pioneers in a letter "to be opened only after my death."

This aviator, who willingly accepted the challenge of the early air mail was one of three who died in 1924. Hyde-Pearson's DeHavilland biplane went down in the Alleghenies of Pennsylvania after fog enveloped his plane while en route to Bellefonte.



The Links Below Are Very Enjoyable

The AirMail Pioneers Chaplin Aerodrome Historic Wings
Cleveland Air Races - The Reublin Collection National Stearman Fly-In Delmar Benjamin's GeeBee R2
Peek Inside A Radial Engine Wright Bros Photography Amelia Earhart
Ford Trimotors, Where Are They? The Red Baron The Aerodrome
Holcomb's Aerodrome Flight Of The NC4 Flight History
Warner Engine Manual 2003 National Air Tour National Stearman Fly-In 

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