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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.
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6 avr. 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.
United traces its roots to Varney Air Lines (VAL), which Walter Varney founded in 1926 in Boise, Idaho. Continental Airlines is the successor to Speed Lines, which Varney had founded by 1932 and whose name changed to Varney Speed Lines in 1934.
23 janv. 2021 · Walter Thomas Varney was an aviation pioneer and founded what later became Continental Airlines. Walter Thomas Varney served as a pilot in the Aviation Section of the US Signal Corps during the First World War.
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In 1925, the Congress passed HR 7064 entitled "An Act to encourage commercial aviation and to authorize the Postmaster General to contract for Air Mail Service" (aka "The Kelly Act") which directed the U.S. Post Office Department to contract with private airlines to carry the mail over designated routes many of which connected with the Government o...
Pilot Leon D. Cuddeback flew the first eastbound CAM-5 flight, leaving in the early dawn hours from Pasco. Between 4,000 and 6,000 cheering people sent the pilot off with 207 pounds (94 kg) of mail.[citation needed]
Varney added a Breese-Wilde Model 5 and replaced its original Swallows with Stearman C3s and thereafter upgraded as new equipment became available. Subsequent aircraft included the larger Stearman M-2 Speedmail and the Boeing Model 40 dedicated mail planes, and finally the more modern Boeing 247twin-engine monoplane. Arriving in 1933, the 247 great...
Tillman, Barrett (1971). "Six Million Miles: The Varney Airlines Story". Journal of the American Aviation Historical Society(Fall, Winter 1971).
- April 6, 1926 (as Varney Air Lines), May 1934 (as Varney Speed Lines)
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Walter T. Varney was born December 26, 1888 in San Francisco. Going to Redwood School of Aviation before World War 1. He enlisted and was sent to School of Military Aeronutics at the University of California, finishing his training in 1918. In 1919 he bought Lynch Field in Redwood City.
1 août 2022 · Boise, Idaho, Postmaster L.W. Thrailkill saw the opportunity to bring Boise into the aerial age and contacted an aviation school and air taxi service in northern California owned by WWI veteran pilot and early American aviation pioneer Walter Varney.
