Flight commemorating 100 years of air mail service gets assist from ground delivery

Wildfires that have ravaged Northern California partially hampered plans last week for a flight commemorating the 100th anniversary of transcontinental air mail delivery.

The final major leg of a 2,560-mile relay recreating the first scheduled transcontinental flight of U.S. Mail transport planes as operated in the early 1920s landed as scheduled Friday morning at Buchanan Field in Concord.