The Airway to Everywhere

A History of All American Aviation, 1937-1953 by W. David Lewis and William F. Trimble

Abstract

All American Aviation owed its birth in large part to a technological creed, commonly held in the years between the world wars, that the age of flight heralded a new and beneficent era in human development. The company initially based its enterprise on this distinctly democratic rationale, as it brought air mail service to the small towns of Appalachian Pennsylvania and West Virginia — a region ignored by the trunk airlines.