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Though the makeshift airports were ready, the York State Guard flyers proved unable to keep any kind of mail schedule.

They had courage but their meager training consisted of weekend hops in good weather, in and out of established airports, And the increasingly cold weather soon raised hob with the water cooled engines of their World War 1, planes.

It seemed like a good time for officials to use a recently-passed law empowering the post office department to contract for the transport of first class mail by air.

They had to act fast, for letters were clogging the terminals.