To make The Air Mail, the, Famous Players-Lasky company traveled by train to Beatty, Nevada, about east of Rhyolite, where it set up temporary headquarters on January 10, 1925. Aircraft used in the film such as the DH .4 and Catron & Fisk arrived from Reno via Tonopah.Beck 2016, p. 17. Stunt pilot Frank Tomlck was hired to do the actual flying in the film, eschewing the use of sound stages or studio effects.Wynne 1987, p. 39.
