Air Service to Atlanta Gives City New "Neighbor"
Cincinnati Post April 15, 1941
First Flight lands at Lunken Airfield; Mayor and Others Take 'Preview' Trip
Cincinnati had a new neighbor to the South Tuesday--Atlanta, brought to within two hours and 40 minutes of this city by inauguration of the new Delta Airline flying service.
The first plane on the schedule which calls for two daily flights between here and Atlanta by way of Knoxville, landed at Lunken Airfield at 10:52 a. m. after leaving Atlanta at 8:12 a. m.
The
plane carried Mayor Stewart, Morris Edwards, Chamber of Commerce
executive vice president, and Guy Randolph, C of C. aviation committee
member, officials of Lexington, Ky, and representatives of the three
Cincinnati papers who Tuesday made an inaugural flight to Atlanta as
guests of C. E. Faulk, president and C. E. Woolman and Laigh C. Parker,
vice presidents of Delta.
At a dinner given at the fashionable Piedmont Driving Club by Atlanta Chamber of Commerce officials Monday night, Mayor Stewart welcomed Atlanta as "a new neighbor to the south of Cincinnati."
He spoke of the neighborliness of American cities which "through a unity of action in these troubled times" would give direction to a better democracy. Winship Nunally, chairman of the Atlanta Aviation Committee, and Gilmore Nunn of the Lexington Board of Commerce, termed Mayor Stewart as the "real goodwill ambassador of the line."
The flight, piloted by veteran pilots, Capts. C. H. Dolsan and F. J. Schwaemmle, takes a course over some of the most beautiful scenery in the country, the Lexington stock farms, the Norris Dam, Smoky Mountains and the fertile lowlands of Georgia.
Until the new airport at Lexington is completed, the flight will not stop there. It is expected that the field will be completed in two months.
Notes:
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In 1928; C. E. Woolman, the principal founder of Delta Air Lines, lead a movement to buy Huff Daland Dusters. They renamed it Delta Air Service for the Mississippi Delta region it served. D.Y. Smith, President was the President and C.E. Woolman was first Vice President.
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Delta had just begun operating the Douglas DC-2 and DC-3 a year previous to this story (1940).
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Delta moved their Company Headquarters from Monroe, Louisiana to Atlanta in 1941, the same year as this story.
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Photo is courtesy of the Lee Wenstrup collection and did not appear in the original newspaper article.