 In 1959 the United States Postal Service issued a 7 cent stamp (C-54) commemorating Wise's flight in the "Jupiter".Balloon mail was also carried on an 1877 flight in Nashville, Tennessee.The first official experiment at flying Air Mail to be made under the aegis of the United States Post Office Department took place on September 23, 1911, on the first day of an International Air Meet sponsored by The Nassau Aviation Corporation of Long Island, when pilot Earle L. Ovington flew 640 letters and 1,280 postcards from the Aero Club of New York's airfield located on Nassau Boulevard near Stratford School in Garden City (Long Island), New York, to the nearby Mineola Post Office in Mineola, located less than six miles away.