The “luxury liner” experience of air travel in 1948, captured on a postcard mailed from the sky.

Found this old postcard tucked in a book. It's from 1948 and was written on a flight to Chicago. I love the mix of personal news and the awe of air travel at the time.

Some interesting bits:

· It was written mid-flight: "He are my driver the clouds" (I think it's "He are [is?] my driver through the clouds").
· The strange line: "we also have a ticket for you for the new jacket." Was "jacket" slang for something else?
· The boast about speed: "get your math crushing at four miles a minute" (that's 240 mph!).
· The pre-printed text boasts about "huge luxury liners" saving time over the "Northwest Passage."
· It was meant to be given to a stewardess to mail, a common practice for early airmail.

The recipient was a Margaret Johnson in Bristol, South Dakota. I wonder what the story was here.