Boeing Air Transport was the first transcontinental carrier of passengers by air. Shown here is the first passenger, Jane Eads, a reporter for the Chicago Herald and Examiner, as she thanks the landing pilot, C. Eugene Robinson after landing at Crissy Field in San Francisco. The flight from Maywood, IL to San Francisco, CA in 1927 took 22.5 hours, and was without many of the conveniences of modern air transport.