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Walter Thomas Varney (December 26, 1888 – January 25, 1967) was an American aviation pioneer who founded forerunners of two major U.S. airlines, United Airlines and Continental Airlines, which combined under United Continental Holdings long after his death.
6. Apr. 2018 · Walter T. Varney, a pilot in the aviation section of the U.S. Signal Corps during World War I, had won an airmail contract in the fall of the previous year. This contract was one of the first to be awarded to a private airline by the U.S. Post Office Department for designated mail-delivery routes.
5. März 2012 · Ein Lockheed Model 9 Orion von Varney Speed Lines: 1934 startet Aviatikpionier Walter Varney seine eigene Airline. Er transportiert vor allem Post, später auch Passagiere. Die Firma...
- The First Mail Flight Was Between Pascoe, Washington, and Elko, Nevada
- Aircraft Manufacturers Wanted A Piece of The Action
- Continental Airlines Is Created
The first flight under the USPOD contract was between Pascoe, Washington, and Elko, Nevada, with a stop in Boise. At the time, Pascoe served as the main rail depot because of its location midway between Seattle, Spokane, and Portland. Mail trains leaving the Washington and Oregon cities would arrive in Pascoe early in the morning. Aircraft would th...
With mail contracts proving so lucrative, aircraft manufacturers wanted a slice of the pie. In 1930 Varney Air Lines was bought by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, a consortium owned by Boeing and Pratt & WhitneyAircraft. With business booming, Varney upgraded the airline with new aircraft, including the dedicated Boeing 40 mail plane...
The same year the Roosevelt administration canceled all mail contracts, which presented an opportunity for air school operator Robert F. Six to buy a share of Varney Air Lines. After taking complete control of the airline in 1936, Six changed the name to Continental Air Lines (later Continental Airlines) to reflect his ambition of having flights to...
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Continental Airlines wurde im Frühjahr 1934 unter dem Namen Varney Speed Lines von Walter T. Varney und Louis H. Mueller in Denver (Colorado) gegründet, um an der Neuvergabe von Luftpostverträgen teilzunehmen, die infolge des Luftpost-Skandals aufgekündigt worden waren.
9. Dez. 2002 · United Airlines, die zweitgrößte Fluggesellschaft der Welt, geht auf eine kleine Postflug-Linie zurück, die der US-Flugpionier Walter Varney 1926 zwischen Pasco, Washington, und Elko, Nevada ...
On April 26, 1926, the first commercial airmail flight in the United States departed from Boise, Idaho to fly to Elko, Nevada. For his role in the development of commercial airmail service to Nevada, Varney earned his place in the Nevada Aerospace Hall of Fame.
