Air News: Volume 48, Number 192, February 2006 Letters to the Editor The Meaning of "All-up" Air Mail Services 234 The Pre-War Air Mail Route from Italy to Ecuador 236 Crilly Ain't Silly 237 Air Mail Directional Etiquettes: Germany to Colombia 238 More on Early WWII Services from Shoreham to Europe 242 Questions & Answers (A.340) The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company 245 (A.342) 23rd Februay 1931 was the Date of Reduction of the British Air Mail Postage Rate to Argentina 246 (A.343) Explanation of the British Air Lift to US APO in Europe 248 (A.344) Early WWII-period British Air Mail to Finland franked 4d 248 (A.347) Covers with "AIR MIAL" mis-spellings 249 (A.349) Identification of Aircraft on T.A.A.F. Aerogramme 249 (Q.350) Information about an Angolan Internal Flight Cover? 249 (Q.351) Onward Air Transmission of FAM Route 18 First Flight Covers 250 (Q.352) Help Required for Understanding of an Interesting Transatlantic Air Mail Cover, June 1942, to 252 Unoccupied France (Q.353) An Early Acceptance Date for an LZ 126 Flight? 253 (Q.354) What is so Very Special about this Spanish Zeppelin Cover? 255 (Q.355) Origin and Use of "North Atlantic Air Service" Cachets 257 Articles Seychelles First Flight Covers 258 More than Two Printings of the Railway Air Services Official Covers 266 North Eastern Airways Ltd 268 P.G.Taylor's Central Pacific Survey Flight, 1944 - a postscript on Clipperton Island 273 Helicopter Mail Flown to British Lighthouses: the Relief of the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, 7th February 1948 277 History of the Airgraph Service 285

Air Mail News: Volume 49, Number 193, May 2006 Letters to the Editor Warning! Madame Joseph Forgery of Papuan Air Mail Cover 6 Response to the Article "History of the Airgraph Service" 8 Stanley Gibbons "Collect Aircraft on Stamps" 10 Questions & Answers (A.340) The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company 11 (A.347) Covers with "AIR MIAL" mis-spellings 19 (A.353) Early Acceptance Date for an LZ 126 Flight 19 (A.354) Differences of Opinion about a Spanish Zeppelin Cover 19 (Q.356) Paraguayan Air Mail Cachet Query 21 (Q.357) Information Required about a Possible WWII-Period Iranian Air Mail 22 (Q.358) Mail from the Gambia by Lufthansa 24 (Q.359) How did this Wartime Canadian Air Mail Cover arrive uncensored in the U.K.? 24 (Q.360) Is there a Listing of British WWII Censor Numbers? 25 (Q.361) Air Mail Flown by the 'Clyde' and the 'Clare' 26 (Q.362) What was the "Goliath" Air Service? 28 (Q.363) How did this 1938 French Cover get to Johannesburg? 29 Articles Danish during the Second World War 30 Spanish after the Civil War (1939-1946) Part III: The June 1940 to December 1942 Period 38 Concerning the Book: Die Luftpostbebuhren fur Deutsche Briefsendungen nach dem Ausland (1926-1945) 53 Oscar Garden - Sundowner of the Skies 56 Air Mail News: Volume 49, Number 194, August 2006 Letters to the Editor Clarification of Sent 'Under Cover' 86 The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company did not Fly the 87 BOAC Flew the Wartime Air Mails, not BEA! 88 Spanish Air Mails after the Civil War (1939-1946) 88 Questions & Answers (A.356) Paraguayan Air Mail Cachet Query 93 (A.358) Mail from the Gambia by Lufthansa 94 (A.359) How did this Wartime Canadian Air Mail Cover arrive uncensored in the U.K.? 96 (A.360) A Listing of British WWII Censor Numbers? 99 (Q.364) Who Paid for the Canadian Special Delivery Stamp? 106 (Q.365) Why the Endorsement "Tripoli - Athens" on this Lebanese Air Mail Cover? 108 (Q.366) What does "V3" mean? 109 (Q.367) Reason for the Lozenge Blind Handstamp of Egypt? 110 Articles Leviathan Cachets 115 Combined SCADTA & Pan American Airways to the United States via the Canal Zone 117 The Aero Espresso Experiment 121 Spanish Airmails after the Civil War (1939-1946) Comments on Covers sent in by Mrs Dee Pullan and Julian van 126 Beveren Oscar Garden - Record Flight Attempt Cape Town to London 133 The 1931 Polar Flight 138

Air Mail News: Volume 49, Number 195, November 2006 Letters to the Editor Combined SCADTA & Pan American Airways Airmail to the United States via the Canal Zone, April 1929 to 163 June 1931 Mildred Bruce Flight Covers 164 Oscar Garden 165 Members' Comments upon Editorial of the August 2006 Issue 166 The 1931 Polar Flight 171 The Irrawaddy Flotilla Company did not Fly the Mails 173 Identification of aircraft on stamps: the Saro Cloud 174 The LZ 130 "Graf Zeppelin" Sudetenland Flight Crew Identification Project 175 Questions & Answers (A.352) Explanation of Tranatlantic Air Mail Cover to Unoccupied France 177 (A.357) WWII-period Iranian Air Mail Crash Cover 178 (A.359) Furthe Explanation why a 1939 Canadian Air Mail Cover may have arrived Uncensored in the U.K. 178 (A.360) The Listing of British WWII Censor Numbers? 179 (A.365) The Reason for the Endorsement "Tripoli - Athens" on the Lebanese Air Mail Cover 181 (A.366) Explanation of the Austrian "V3" mean 182 (A.367) Reason for the Lozenge Blind Handstamp of Egypt 186 (Q.368) How did this Philatelically Contrived Air Mail Cover get to India and back again to England? 186 (Q.369) Information about Zeppelin Postage Rates, Please? 188 (Q.370) "Posted at Reading under Cover" etc 188 (Q.371) Where was this 'First Airmail to Karachi' Photograph taken? 193 Articles World War II Swiss Air Mail to Southern Africa 193 The Higher Denomination Stamps of the 1934 Air Mail Definitive Issue of Costa Rica 205 Jiggery-Pokery in Istanbul 219 in the IT Age 223 Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) 226 Air Mail News: Volume 49, Number 196, February 2007 Letters to the Editor The UPU and Pan American Airways Operations in the late 1920s and early 1930s 248 The De Havilland Aircraft that flew the Mail after the Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, Earthquake 250 No to Computers, or any of their Ilk 253 On "O.A.T." Markings 255 "O.A.T." Theme, and WWII Swiss Air Mail to Southern Africa 258 WWII Swiss Air Mail to Southern Africa 260 Identification of aircraft on stamps: the Saro Cloud and Proof Cachets for FAM Route 19 First Flight Covers 261 Questions & Answers (A.368) How the Air Mail Cover got to India, and back again to England 264 (A.370) Posted (at Reading) under Cover 269 (A.371) Where the 'First Air Mail to Karachi' Photograph was probably taken 272 (Q.372) Information Requested about Early British Air Services 273 (Q.373) British Wartime Air Mail Cover to Vichy France 273 (Q.374) A WWII-Period Irish Air mail Cover to Argentina 275 (Q.375) What were the Bolivian Air Mail Postage Rates? 278 (Q.376) When did Pan Am resume Trans-Pacific Air Mail after the Second World War? 280 (Q.377) Is this a Guba Indian Ocean Survey Flight Cover? 281 Articles A 1925 'La Transalpina' Flight Cover 283 The North Atlantic Return Ferry (BOAC) and the RAF Ferry Command 284 Spanish Air Mails After the Civil War (1939-1946) Part IV: The December 1942 to June 1944 Period 294 Bolivian Air Mail Postage Rates on Mail flown by LATI to Germany 303

Air Mail News: Volume 50, Number 197, May 2007 Letters to the Editor The Saro Cloud 6 Canadian Prisoner-of-War Camps 8 Julius Fletcher 8 World War II Swiss Air mail to Southern Africa 9 Wartime Air Mail between Sweden, Madrid and the U.S.A. 9 Speed of Wartime Air mail between Switzerland and Madrid 10 Colombian Air mail Cover 13 Bolivian Air Mail Postage rates by LATI to Germany 14 Questions & Answers (A.320) Egypt to the United States via South Africa in 1944 15 (A.368) The Royal Airship Base at Drigh Road, Karachi; Air Mail Routes from India 15 (A.370) Posted (at reading) under Cover 18 (A.372) Information about Early British Air Services 20 (A.374) The WWII-Period Irish Air mail Cover to Argentina 20 (A.376) The date when Trans-Pacific Air Mail services were resumed after the Conclusion of the Second World 21 War (Q.378) Has Anyone ever seen this L.A.T.I. "Via Natal" Directional Handstamp Before? 26 (Q.379) Can Anyone explain this I.A. Jubilee Handstamp? 31 (Q.380) Why did this Red Cross Letter to East Africa go to Cairo? 33 (Q.381) How did this Air Mail Cover get from Newfoundland to Ceylon, and back Again? 34 (Q.382) What is the Significance of this Japanese date Stamp? 35 Articles The Reason for the Two Signatures on this 1911 Coronation Aerial Postcard 35 Peking to Tsinan: First Air Mail, 1st July 1921 37 Mail Carried on the 1940 B.O.A.C. Transatlantic Flights 41 Walter G. Crosby First Flight Covers 46 Aviation Aspects of the Kenya Emergency 1952 - 1960 55 The Garuda Mail Run 60 The Names of K.L.M. Aircraft 60 An Interrupted Flight (April 1929) 62 Air Mail News: Volume 50, Number 198, August 2007 Letters to the Editor Saved from the Trash Bin 85 An Australian Cover Flown via the BOAC North Atlantic Ferry 87 The Disposal of Air Mail Literature 89 Alex henshaw and Arthur Clouston 90 NOJEX 95 Wartime Air Mail between Sweden, Madrid and the U.S.A. 97 Computers and the Use of the Internet 98 Some Clarity on the 'Clare' 99 Questions & Answers (A.294) The Float Plane carried by the "Commandant Charcot" 105 (A.368) Air Mail Routes from India 107 (A.370) Posted (at Reading) Under Cover 109 (A.372) The Air Post of Banks, Ltd 109 (A.374) The WWII-Period Irish Air mail Cover to Argentina 109 (A.376) The date when Trans-Pacific Air Mail services were resumed after the Conclusion of the Second World 110 War (A.378) Has Anyone ever seen this L.A.T.I. "Via Natal" Directional Handstamp Before? 110 (A.379) Explanation for the I.A. Jubilee Handstamp 113 (Q.380) Why did a Red Cross Letter to East Africa go to Cairo 114 (A.381) How the Air Mail Cover got from Newfoundland to Ceylon, and back Again 115 (A.382) Interpretation of the Japanese date Stamp 117 (Q.383) Which did this Passenger fly with? 117 (Q.384) Information required about Mr T.E. Raymond Phillips, the Inventor of the Wireless-Controlled Airship 120 (Q.385) What were the dates for starting 'All-up' Services? 121 (A.386) From the UK to Sweden via Moscow in 1940 121 (Q.387) P.C. 66 "Opened by Censor" Tape 123 (Q.388) Where was the Air mail Etiquette Obliterated? 124 (Q.389) What were the Irish Air mail Postage Rates to the United States 1941-1951? 125 Articles The Resumption of Trans-Pacific Air Mail Services after the Second World War 127 The First Direct Flights between the UK and Mount Pleasant Airfield in the Falklands in 1985 131 Bolivian LATI Air Mail Postage Rates 135 The Guatemala Incident 139 Not all International Air Mail Exited Australia through Sydney 144

Air Mail News: Volume 5, Number 199, November 2007 Letters to the Editor Bolivian Postage Rates 165 Mail carried on the BOAC Transatlantic Flights 166 Alex Henshaw and Arthur Clouston 167 Flight by Clouston and Ricketts from England to New Zealand and back, March 1938 171 P.C. 66 Censorship Labels 173 Questions & Answers (A.368) Air mail Routes from India 175 (A.380) The Reason the Red Cross Letter to East Africa was sent to Cairo 175 (A.383) The Airline that operated Le Bourget to Croydon in 1928 177 (A.384) The Inventor of the Wireless-Controlled Airship 178 (A.386) That British Air mail Cover to Sweden in 1940 178 (A.387) P.C. 66 "Opened by Censor" Tape 183 (A.388) Where the Air mail Etiquette was Obliterated 183 (A.389) That "Bone Shaking" Mysterious 1s 3½d Irish Air mail Postage Rate 184 (Q.390) The Post-War Activities of the airline "Nordavia" 187 (Q.391) Was this Belgian "First Acceptance" Cover for I.A. Service to Egypt ever Flown? 188 (Q.392) Is this a unique March 1944 Canadian Crash Cover? 190 (Q.393) Is this really a I.A. 1000th Flight Cover? 193 Articles Air Mails of the French Congo 194 The French Ambush Swiss Air Mail in October 1944 206 Spanish Air Mails After the Civil War (1939-1946) Part V: The June 1944 to 1946 Period 212 Air Mail News: Volume 50, Number 200, February 2008 Letters to the Editor Henshaw, Clouston, Mrs Kirby-Green, and the Aero-Philatelic Dealer, A. Philips 243 Direct Flights between the U.K. and the Falkland Islands 250 WWII-Period Swiss Air Mails 252 First British Acceptances for Air Mail Service in the French Congo 256 The "Southern Cross" and the "Southern Cloud" 257 Questions & Answers (A.370) "Posted Under Cover At ..." etc. 259 (A.372) The Air Post of Banks, Ltd. 259 (A.382) Interpretation of the Japanese Date Stamp 261 (A.390) The Post-War Activities of the airline "Nordavia" 261 (A.392) That March 1944 Canadian Crash Cover 263 (A.393) Readers Comment on those I.A. 1000th Flight Covers 264 (Q.394) The Air Crash in Rome in 1955 268 (Q.395) The Cheapest Air Mail Postage rate in the World? or ... was this 1937 Card from Johannesburg to 269 Columbia really flown? (Q.396) What was the reason for this Indian dated Cancellation? 270 (Q.397) Was there FIP Patronage at the London International Stamp Exhibitions of 1960 and 1970? 271 (Q.398) Any ideas about this U.S. "Strike Breaking" Air Mail Cover to France? 271 (Q.399) Information concerning Iraqi Internal Flights in 1939 272 (Q.400) Was any Mail flown by the "Locomotive" Glider Train of 1934? 275 Articles Barbados World War II Air Mail Rates 275 Was this Air Mail Cover Carried on the Last Flight from San Francisco over FAM Route 19 to Auckland, New 281 Zealand? O.A.T. - Onward Air Transmission - Morocco 287

Air Mail News: Volume 51, Number 201, May 2008 Letters to the Editor Information about Early Bolivian Airmails" 4 "Dear Senor" Letters 5 WWII-Period Swiss Air Mails 5 Questions & Answers (A.394) The Air Crash in Rome in 1955 6 (A.395) The Cheapest Air Mail Postage rate in the World? or ... was this 1937 Card from Johannesburg to 7 Columbia really flown? (A.396) Uses of Indian dated Cancellation 13 (A.399) Information concerning Iraqi Internal Flights in 1939 18 (A.400) The Lustig "Locomotive Glider Train" of 1934 19 (Q.401) Does this Capt. Smye Cover have any Significance? 21 (Q.402) A Midway - Wake Island Cover Mystery 21 (Q.403) Why were these Covers flown from Nicaragua over to Brownsville, rather than to Miami? 22 (Q.404) Imperial Airways calpurnia Crash Cover on Ebay 25 (Q.405) Does Anyone have a Picture of a Sikorsky S-43 in Flight? 25 (Q.406) Was this 1931 Kenya & Uganda Cover flown? 26 (Q.407) Air Route from Perth, Australia to Singapore in 1935? 27 (Q.408) What was the Pollard's Airship? 27 Articles The St. Lawrence Seaway Air Mail Service: 1927 - 1939 29 Readers write in about 'Two Oceans' Route Mail 53 World War II 'Two Ocean' Mail from the United Kingdom to Australia and New Zealand 54 WWII-Period Air Mails diverted from the 'Two Oceans' Route' 62 Not a 'Two Oceans' but a 'Double Atlantic' Route Cover 65 No Service to Netherlands East Indies 67 No Service to Singapore and India 69 The Last Pre-WWII (USA) Flight from Treasure Island to the Territory of Hawaii by Pan American Airways 72 Air Mail News: Volume 51, Number 202, August 2008 Letters to the Editor Davis and Davis 83 WWII 'Two Oceans' Mail from the UK to Australia and New Zealand 84 Trans-Pacific Air Mail from the USA before the attack on Pearl Harbour 84 Air mail flight between Ottawa and Bradore Bay, 1932 85 The Judging at Bellafonte 87 Greatest Number of on an Air Mail Cover 89 New Book on South African Air mails: problems regarding exhibiting literature 91 Book "Flying Empires" available to download 93 Questions & Answers (A.395) The Cheapest Air Mail Postage Rate in the World: the Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg, 1936-1937 94 (A.400) The Lustig "Locomotive Glider Train" of 1934 95 (A.402) The Midway - Wake Island Cover Mystery: cancelling Philippine Islands Stamps in the United States 96 (A.403) A Possible Reason why Covers were flown from Nicaragua over to Brownsville, rather than to Miami 96 (A.404) Imperial Airways Calpurnia Crash Cover on Ebay 97 (A.406) How the 1931 Kenya & Uganda Cover was flown 98 (A.407) Air Route from Perth, Australia to Singapore in 1935 99 (Q.409) Incoming Foreign Covers franked with US Postage Stamps for the Air Mail Service over the Three 100 Zones of the US Transcontinental Air Mail Service (Q.410) Can anyone interpret this Bahamas to Jamaica ? 100 (Q.411) Was this cachet applied by a Pan Am, or a US Post Office? 102 (Q.412) Could this Cover have been forwarded by the Horseshoe Route? 103 (Q.413) Lebanon to Iraq in 1924? 105 (Q.414) How did this Russian Cover reach Uruguay in 1936? 105 (Q.415) Was there Sufficient Postage on this Iraqi Cover for it to be Flown Twice across the Atlantic? 107 (Q.416) Were any other covers posted outside of South Africa flown on KLM's return flight to Amsterdam, New 108 Year 1938? (Q.417) Is there a set of "Dear Senor" letters in the United Kingdom? 109 (Q.418) Why was South African "Airmail Suspended" 110 (Q.419) A 1939 Argentine Temporary Rate Increase, or Late Fee? 110 Articles The Caribou Writes to the Yeti 112 'Par Avion', 'Hong Kong' or 'Singapore' Marks of the Philippine Islands 119 An Early Thailand Air Mail Card 121 Notes and Queries about WWII-Period Air Mails between Axis-occupied Europe and the Americas 124 Why Leopoldville? 124

Air Mail News: Volume 51, Number 203, November 2008 Letters to the Editor Comments about WWII-Period Air Mails between Axis-occupied Europe and the Americas 163 The St. Lawrence Seaway Air Mails 167 The LAN frankings on Chilean Air Mail Covers 167 Hosting an Aerophilatelic Weekend 169 Houston Mt. Everest Covers 169 The Damon Runyan Cancer Fund Covers 170 "Par Avion / Singapore / By Air Mail" mark 170 Davis and Davis 170 The Last FAM-14 Flight 171 American Air Mail Society Publications 172 Questions & Answers (A.403) A Reason why Nicaraguan Covers went via Brownsville 172 (A.409) Incoming Foreign Covers franked with US Postage Stamps for the Air Mail Service over the Three 174 Zones of the US Transcontinental Air Mail Service (A.410) Interpretation of Bahamas'First Flight' Cover to Jamaica: the "On/Off" FAM-7 Service 178 (A.411) The Directional cachet was applied by Pan Am in Surinam 182 (A.418) Why the WWII-Period South African Air Mail Service was Suspended 186 (A.419) Argentine Temporary Rate Increase, or Late Fee? 188 (Q.420) WWII-period Iraqi Postage Rates 188 (Q.421) Is this a Pan American Good Will Flight Cover? 190 (Q.422) How did this Australian Cover get to Colombia in 1929? 190 (Q.423) Bolivian Air mail to France via the Amazon? 191 (Q.424) ANA's First All-Australian Air Mail Cover to the UK 193 (Q.425) Information needed concerning Australian 'Crash' Cover in 1949 194 Articles The "LATI Substitute" Service of Pan American Airways and the Influence of Wartime Censorship 196 - A "Universally" Popular Theme 209 The 1951 Festival of Britain Aerogrammes 214 in the Great War and After 215 A Unique Rate (Singapore - UK May 1941) 219 Those Mysterious Victor Nawratil Covers 220 New Suriname Directional Handstamp Discovery 226

Air Mail News: Volume 51, Number 204, February 2009 Letters to the Editor LAN spreads its wings 239 I'm not a 'Postage Due Buff', but ... 240 The "United Nations" 241 Victor Nawratil 241 Re-siting of British Postal Museum Archives 245 late FAM-14 Flight Covers 245 The 70th Anniversary of the Imperial Airways Record Breaking Flight from Dundee to South West Africa 247 Questions & Answers (A.402) Midway - Wake Island Cover Mystery 249 (A.418) The Date Southbound Air Service from Great Britain to South Africa was resumed in 1945 253 (A.419) Argentine Temporary Rate Increase, or Late Fee? 253 (A.420) WWII-period Iraqi Postage Rates 254 (A.425) The Catalina lost at Rose Bay , Sydney, August 1949 254 (Q.426) How did this Chinese Crash Cover reach the U.S.A.? 257 (Q.427) Is this a Genuine Zeppelin Cover? 258 (Q.428) Franking of F.P.O. 662 Air Mail Cover to Brazil 259 (Q.429) Malayan Air Mail via Marseilles in 1928 259 (Q.430) The Correct Franking on this 1934 Zeppelin Cover 312 (Q.431) What kind of aircraft would have been used on the Nish-Vienna leg of the London - Karachi service in 260 January 1931 Articles Credit due to Credit Suisse (WWII-Period Air Mail Paraguay to Switzerland) 260 A Few Notes on the Pan American Lisbon / Natal / Lisbon Service (the "Substitute LATI Service") 270 The Story of the 'Round-the-World-and a bit Flight 272 A Tale of Two Covers (November 1941) 274 Investigating Venezuelan Air Mail Postage rates (1930-1944): an Interim Report 276 Air Mail News: Volume 52, Number 205, May 2009 Letters to the Editor The "Substitute LATI Service" 5 U.S. Files Relating to the Flight of the 'America' 6 No, I am not a 'Postage Due Buff' but ... 6 Colombian-Venezuelan Mixed-franking 18 Mail to Credit Suisse 20 Questions & Answers (A.426) How the Chinese Crash Cover probably reached the U.S.A. 21 (A.427) Was this, or was it not a Genuine Zeppelin Cover? 21 (A.428) Franking of F.P.O. 662 Air Mail Cover to Brazil 22 (A.431) The type of aircraft that would have been used on the Nish-Vienna leg of the London - Karachi service in 23 January 1931 (A.433) Correct Franking on 1934 Indian Zeppelin Cover 23 (Q.433) A French First Flight that Failed 24 (Q.434) How was this Togo Cover flown to Switzerland in 1943 26 (Q.435) Air Mail postage rates from North Borneo 27 (Q.436) Postage rate from Gabon to England in 1943? 28 (Q.437) The Hamburg Balloon Stamp 29 (Q.438) Edwin Bormann's Eilpost card? 29 (Q.439) Are these unrecorded Types of Aberdeen to Shetland First Flight Covers? 30 Articles A Tale of Two Covers: Great Britain Acceptances for the First Direct Service to Elisabethville by SABENA 32 Wham BAMS, and thank you AAMS 35 A Very Early Use of FAM-22 by Swiss Mail 40 The Philips "Lettres Temoin" 41 Over the Hump 53 Was this a First Flight Cover? (London - Sweden 1942) 59 Air Mail - but not as you know it! 60

Air Mail News: Volume 52, Number 206, August 2009 Letters to the Editor The Pillage International Trophy Competition 72 The "Miami Transit" Listing 73 The air mail postage rate between the UK and the USA in 1926 and the franking of covers to the Belgian Congo 73 in 1935 The Route to Madagascar 77 Royal mail by "Balloon", but not as you know it! 79 The Philips "Lettres Temoin" 80 Early Use of FAM-22 by Swiss Mail 84 Questions & Answers (A.422) Australia to Columbia by Air in 1929 85 (A.434) The Route Togo to Switzerland in 1943 86 (A.436) Postage rates from Gabon to England in 1943 86 (A.437) The Hamburg Balloon Stamp 88 (A.438) Edwin Bormann's Eilpost card? 88 (A.439) They were not unrecorded Types of Aberdeen to Shetland First Flight Covers 88 (Q.440) Was there a British "Jusqu'a" rate in 1937 to China? 89 (Q.441) Route and Rate from N. Rhodesia to Latvia in 1937? 90 (Q.442) Indian Internal Air Mail Postage Rates in 1938? 91 (Q.443) A South African Special Christmas Flight 91 (Q.444) The wherabouts of F.P.O.148? 93 (Q.445) Air Bleu Connection to North Africa and South America? 94 (Q.446) What is the Significance of "206 BRIT" on this Tristan da Cunha Air Mail Cover? 94 (Q.447) Was an early "Richard Branson" Manned Free Flight Balloon Attempt across the Atlantic? 95 Articles New York to South Africa in 1941 97 Underpaid Air Mail 1924 - 1940 99 Exactly When did the LATI Service to South America End? 117 Jumbo, Jumbo 119 Air Mail News: Volume 52, Number 207, November 2009 Letters to the Editor Obituary: J. 'Hamish' M. Reid 152 When was the 'British' added to the title of our 'Air Mail Society'? 154 The number of known Lockerbie Crash Covers 154 Additional Information concerning European Despatches via New York for the U.S. Trancontinental Air Mail 156 Service Comments and Queries raised by: "The St. Lawrence Seaway Air Mail Service, 1927 - 1939" 157 Questions & Answers (A.422) Australia to Columbia by Air in 1929 167 (A.441) Route and Rate from N. Rhodesia to Latvia in 1937? 167 (A.442) Indian Internal Air Mail Postage Rates in 1938 169 (A.443) The South African Special Christmas Flight Cover 169 (A.444) The wherabouts of F.P.O.148 171 (A.445) Air Bleu Connection to North Africa and South America 172 (A.447) It was not an early "Richard Branson" Manned Free Flight Balloon Attempt across the Atlantic 174 (Q.448) By Air from Sydney to Amsterdam in October 1934? 172 (Q.449) WWII-period Maltese Air Mail to British Guiana? 176 Articles Que Que, Southern Rhodesia to Victoria, Seychelles 179 The RAF Cairo-Baghdad Air Mail Service: Cachets used on Air Mail Covers 181 The B.S.A.A. Post Merger Period Chilean Air Mail 189 The "Sunshine Air Express" 194 Another Version of the PAA Pacific Clipper's Historic Westbound Flight 196 The A.P.E.X. 1934 Exhibition 204 WWII-Period Incorrectly Rated British Air Mail Covers to Australia 209

Air Mail News: Volume 52, Number 208, February 2010 Letters to the Editor Another version of the PAA Pacific Clipper's Historic Westbound Flight 228 World War II-period Air Mails between Axis-occupied Europe and the Americas: an Additional Route Germany 231 to the United States Questions & Answers (A.448) World War II-period Maltese Air Mail to British Guiana 233 (A.449) PICAO and the Air Routes Conference of 1946 235 (Q.450) Is this a genuine Danzig FAM-18 Route Cover? 237 (Q.451) From what kind of Material were WWII-Period "OAT" Handstamps made? 239 (Q.452) First Flight Mauritius to France in 1937? 241 (Q.453) Why this franking on 1927 Austrian air mail cover to the USA? 242 (Q.454) A WWII-period Venezuelan air mail mis-sorted cover? 243 (Q.455) Was 1s 3d the correct British air mail rate to India in 1941? 244 Articles International Access to U.S. Zonal Air Mail, 1924-1927 245 Guatemalan Mail via Catapult Flights 1934-1935 253 The Army Flies the Mail by Helicopter to Hanmer in 1973 259 Sicitur ad Astra - Thus you shall go to the Stars 263 Notes on the Usage of the "North Atlantic Air Service" Air Mail Cachet in Morocco, 1939-1947 272 The Stop at Seville on LATI's "Rome - Rio de Janeiro" Service 282 Beijing 2009 Aeropex 291 Air Mail News: Volume 53, Number 209, May 2010 Letters to the Editor The Handling of Surface Mail, Chile to Europe during WWII 5 Captain Ford's Epic Westbound Flight, New Zealand to the United States 7 More Information about the "Sunshine Air Express" 9 Questions & Answers (A.448) World War II-period Maltese Air Mail to the United States 10 (A.450) It was probably not a genuine Danzig FAM-18 Route Cover 13 (A.452) Number of covers flown First Flight Mauritius to France in 1937 15 (Q.456) How was this Spanish WWII-period Window Letter Flown? 17 (Q.457) When & where was this Air Union crash in England? 19 (Q.458) How was this Polish cover flown to Bolivia in July 1939? 19 (Q.459) Nigeria to Hong Kong, Nigeria to Lundy? 21 Articles The United States Involvement in West African Aviation and their Contribution to the Carriage of Mails, 1941- 24 1945 The 1973 NZ Army Helicopter Mail Revisited 47 The 1939 'Round-the World' Flight Covers 49 The First External Air Mail Despatch from Chile 58 When the United States went to War: Two British Air Mail Problem Covers 62

Air Mail News: Volume 53, Number 210, August 2010 Letters to the Editor Confirmation of a Wartime Spanish Air Mail Postage Rate 88 Round-the- World Flight Covers of 1937 92 Information about two British WWII-period air mail covers 92 A catapult Cover with Eye-Appeal 95 More Information about the "Sunshine Air Express" 97 R-34 Covers 99 The Aerophilatelic Club, London and the Air Mail Society 100 Questions & Answers (A.457) The 1926 Air Union Crash near Hurst, 101 (A.458) How the Polish Cover was flown to Bolivia in July 1939 103 (A.459) Nigeria to Hong Kong in 1936, Nigeria to Lundy in 1937 108 (Q.460) New Zealand to the USA via Trinidad in 1944? 111 (Q.462) Rates on First Flight Covers England to Northern Ireland in 1941? 112 (Q.463) Guatemala to the UK via San Francisco in February 1943? 113 (Q.464) Postage Rate, Ruanda to South Africa in 1941? 114 (A.440) A British Air Mail Cover via Moscow to China in 1936 115 Articles The First British Air Mail Flight, 1910 116 Air Anglia (A.A.) 121 C.J. Melrose - a Short Life, but a Memorable Flight to England 136 Great Western Railway: the Newton Abbot Flights 139 Air Mail News: Volume 53, Number 211, November 2010 Letters to the Editor French Crashes in England 166 G.W.R. Newton Abbot Covers 167 90th Anniversary of the Chineses Postal Service 167 Aircraft Stamps 168 Questions & Answers (A.459) Nigeria to Lundy in 1937 170 (A.460) The Route from New Zealand to the United States in May 1944 for a cover that was censored in Trinidad 170 (A.462) They were not correctly rated First Flight Covers, England to Northern Ireland in 1941 171 (Q.465) Are United States Air Mail Postage Stamps only valid for Air Mail Service? 171 (Q.466) Was this French Polynesian Air Mail Cover Flown? 172 (Q.467) First Flight FAM-6 from Guadeloupe to South America? 174 (Q.468) Does anyone have the Signature of E.L. Sloniger? 175 (Q.469) The "Linley" Cachet Club? 176 (Q.470) Can anyone explain this Argentine Franking? 178 Articles Further Aspects of the Horseshoe Route: a New Zealand Perspective 179 Aspects of the World War II Routes to and from Sweden 184 Pushing the Boundaries: Newport, Monmouthshire to Gyantse, Tibet, 20th February 1938 205 Air Mails of the Kingdom of Bulgaria 1926 - 1946 209

Air Mail News: Volume 53, Number 212, February 2011 Letters to the Editor "Par Avion" "Hong Kong" or "Singapore" Marks of the Philippine Islands 245 Air Mail Flown on from New York 251 The First British Air Mail Flight, Blackpool, August 1910 252 The Censorship by Germany of Mail from Neutral Countries 253 Wotherspoon's Ingenuity 254 ... and more on Jet Test Flight Covers 255 CFRNA/CIDNA and Czech Acceptances for Bulgaria 256 The Stockholm-Riga-Moscow Air Route 258 Members Correspondence re. Bulgarian Air Mails: Russia to Bulgaria, 1940; Bulgaria via Athens to Siam in 1934260 Questions & Answers (A.465) United States Air Mail Postage Stamps were only valid for Air Mail Service 262 (Q.471) How did this Cover reach the South of France in 1935? 267 (Q.472) Who were 'Rohan et Cie'? 174 (Q.473) What was Capt. Smye trying to do, and did he succeed? 271 (Q.474) Was the 1939 Byrd Antarctic Expedition marked philatelically? 272 Articles The BOAC Crash at Kinnekulle, Sweden August 1944 273 Chile to the Philippines by 'Clipper' in 1938: A Delayed Cover 280 The First Croydon Aerodrome Postmark, 1928 283 A Meeting of Monarchs 283 British Acceptance for the Catapult Air Mail Service of the 'Ile de France' 290 Air Mail from the Dutch East Indies to the U.K. and to the U.S.A. 1940-1941 292 Problems with the Identification of Authentic Commercially-Flown NYRBA Covers 299 Air Mail News: Volume 53, Number 213, May 2011 Letters to the Editor The Proposed North Atlantic Air Mail Route to Sweden 325 Citation of Websites as References in Aerophilatelic Articles 329 British Catapult Mail by the 'Ile de France' 331 Re: Q.465. Are United States Air Mail Postage Stamps only valid for Air Mail Service? 332 Michael Crux & Kuno Sollors 333 Via NYRBA 336 That Delayed Cover, Chile to the Philippines in 1938 340 June 1940 Dutch East Indies Air Mail Cover was probably not despatched by First Horseshoe Service Flight, WS 341 1 Possible Space Fillers? 342 Questions & Answers (A.472) 'Rohan et Cie' 344 (Q.475) Which Crash does this Thai Air Mail Cover relate to? 344 (Q.476) How did this Australian Cover reach Switzerland in 1944? 345 Articles The Positioning Flight of the 'Arethusa' 346 L.A.T.I's Rome - Tokyo - Rome Flight of 1942 347 Hong Kong Air Mails: 1933 to 1940, the KLM Service 351 Air Mail Directional Handstamps: Some Recent Additions 359 The London, Scottish and Provincial Airways Ltd. 361 Combi-Mail Class 5b: Air Mails Returned to Sender for Correct Postage to be Added 362 A 1938 Argentine Air Mail Cover to China: A Question of Rates and Dates 372

Air Mail News: Volume 54, Number 214, August 2011 Letters to the Editor 20c Rate 3 Questions & Answers (Q.477) Penang to Shanghai 4 (Q.478) Lerwick to Bermuda 4 (Q.479) England to South Africa 4 (Q.480) Ile de France forged cover 6 (Q.481) Russia to the Faroe Islands, 22nd May 1931 6 (A.475) Which crash does this Thai Air Mail Cover relate to? 7 (A.475) How did this Australian cover reach Switzerland in 1944? 7 Articles Bombay to New York, 4th June 1940 9 Guam Cover 10 Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd, Part II 14 WW2 Censorship - The San Juan Agreement 17 One Frame Exhibits 20 Flying the Furrow 22 Latvia and Lithuania: Some Transatlantic Air Mail Postage Rate Problems 26 Air Mail News: Volume 54, Number 215, November 2011 Letters to the Editor Letter to all Member Clubs of FISA 4 Latvian and Lithuanian Transatlantic Air Mail 6 AAMS awards for 2011 6 Portsmouth, Southsea and Isle of Wight Aviation Ltd 7 Helicopter Mail 11 Questions & Answers (Q.482) Was this a First British Despatch via New York to Calgary, Canada? 12 (Q.483) Elizabeth to Broken Hill, November 1936 by DH 88 Comet 13 (A.479) South African Airmail 14 (A.480) Ile de France forged cover 15 (A.468) Signature of E.L. Sloniger 18 Articles From Sweden to Australia July 1945 19 Morocco & Latecoere 21 The Mystery of the 'D.w.' Covers 27 Appendix E. Air Mails 36 Air Post Stamps 43

Air Mail News: Volume 54, Number 216, February 2012 Letters to the Editor More on Jet Test Flight Covers 5 Latvia and Lithuania Revisited 6 Comet III Flights 8 Airspeed Courier 8 Questions & Answers (Q.484) Two Ends and a Middle - 1934 Cover, Joinville - Chemnitz 9 (A.483) Elizabethhville to Broken Hill, November 1936 11 (A.468) The Signature of E.L.Sloniger 12 (A.476) How did this Australian Cover reach Switzerland in 1944? 12 Articles Dr Saundry's Latvian Greetings card from 1940 13 Swedish Postal Routes to USA: Dec 7th 1939 - April 9th 1940 13 Latvian Transatlantic Air Mail 1936 to 1940 15 Forced Landing near Wadi Halfa, March 1932 17 The So-called LATI Flight to Tokyo 1942 19 An Early RNAS Flown Card 21 Before the Horseshoe Route 22 Catalina Ferry Flights Across thePacific: Hawaii to Australia 1941 23 1930s UK Airmail to Malaya by Imperial Airways or KLM 26 Forced Landing in the Equatorial Rain Forest 27 Future of Civil Air Communications of the Empire: Memorandum by the Postmaster General, December 1933 29 Air Mail News: Volume 54, Number 217, May 2012 Obituary Ian McQueen 3 Letters to the Editor Short Brothers Felixtowe F3 Anti-Submarine Flying Boat 3 Forced Landing near Wadi Halfa, March 1932 5 On Dragon's Wings - Chinese Air Mails 6 LATI's Rome - Tokyo - Rome Flight of 1942 7 A South Wales and Westcountry Regional Group 8 Questions & Answers (Q.485) Can anyone say how this cover was flown? Kano, Nigeria - Khartoum 9 (Q.485a) A Wartime Mystery 10 (A.483) Elizabethville to Broken Hill, November 1936 11 (A.484) 1934 Cover, Joinville - Chemnitz 11 (A.480) Ile de France forged cover - a further reference 16 Articles Severn Airways: the 84 day airline 16 The Salmet 17 Additions to the Supplement to Airmail Directional Handstamps 18 The Pan American Postal Union: the UPAE and the UPAEP 22 Australia's First Official Scheduled Air mail Service Perth to Derby 4th December 1921 31 Literature Reviews: canal Zone and Panama Aerophilately and Philately Associated with the First Byrd Antarctic 36 Expedition The Titanic: Special March Issue of La Catastrophe 38 Primary Source: Mail Time Table - Southern Rhodesia 1938 39

Air Mail News: Volume 55, Number 218, August 2012 Letters to the Editor Forced Landing near Wadi Halfa, March 1932 3 By Comet to the Congo 4 Questions & Answers (Q.486) BAMS Menu 1962 5 (A.483) DH Comet Reine Astrid 6 (A.484) Kano - Khartoum, 1947 4 (A.485) Wartime Mystery: UK - Sweden via Lisbon missorted to Switzerland 8 Articles The Gloster IV Racing Seaplane 10 LATI Mail: The German Newspapers 12 Forced Landing in Southern Sudan 14 Airmails of the World 100th Anniversary 19 Primary Source: Imperial Airways, Khartoum - Lagos February 1937 25 Paris Balloon Post 1870-1 28 Air Mail News: Volume 55, Number 219, November 2012 Letters to the Editor LZ-129 Hindenburg 3 Airmails of the World 6 Australia's First Official Scheduled Air Mail Service, Perth to Derby 4th December 1921 6 Questions & Answers (Q.487) Can anyone explain this Franco-Bulgarian Flown Exhibition Card? 8 (Q.488) KLM to South America 10 (A.488) KLM to South America 10 Articles A Much Mis-directed Cover 10 The Daily Mail Western Waterplane Tour 1912 12 The Correct Name for the Smallest Republic in Latin America 13 The Rebirth of the KLM Airline to the Far East after WWII: Part 1 15 The Rhein Main Airmails: 10th to 23rd June 1912 22 To and Fro between Southampton and Poole: Imperial Airways' UK Flying Boat Base, Sept 1939 to 1940 30 Primary Source: First Acceptance of Mail from Egypt destined for Greece and Crete 34

Air Mail News: Volume 55, Number 220, February 2013 Letters to the Editor When is a Boeing 314 not a Boeing 314? 3 Questions & Answers (Q.488) Yankee Clipper Crash Cover 4 Articles Deutsche Lufthansa: Germany to South America via Bathurst, Sierra Leone Gazette 1935 5 Croydon to Cape Town January 1932 6 Brazil to Argentina 6 Disruption of Horseshoe Mail from Durban in mid 1941 11 Rebirth of KLM Airline to the Far East after WWII, Part II 18 Airmail Postcard from Ruanda-Urundi to UK by Imperial Airways 1933 23 Switzerland to Dutch East Indies, November 1941 - February 1942 25 First Acceptance of Mail to the Balkans from London and Alexandria 28 Contrast in Attitudes to First Flight Covers: GB & USA 29

Air Mail News: Volume 55, Number 221, May 2013 Letters to the Editor When is a Boeing 324 not a Boeing 314 3 Comments on "FAM 22" 4 Airmail Postcard from Ruandi-Urundi 5 Questions & Answers (Q.489) Air Mail Rate: Costa Rica to Great Britain 6 (Q.490) Kano, Nigeria to Khartoum, Sudan 1949. How was the cover flown? 6 (A.488) Yankee Clipper Crash 7 Articles A 1944 Registered Air Mail Cover from the Bahamas to England 9 "FAM-22" First Flight Covers - or are they? 10 Make your Sixpence Fly: The Red Cross "Our Day" Aerial Post, October - December 1918 16 The Do. X Takes the Air 22 How did this Romanian Air Mail Letter reach Tel Aviv? 23 When was the First Overseas Airmail flown out of the Falklands? 26 INTRA Airways - 1969 to 1979 33 Primary Source: Air Ministry Investigation of a Civil Flying Accident: Aircraft G-AETW Calpurnia 36 Air Mail News: Volume 56, Number 222, August 2013 Letters to the Editor Not FAM 22 and Romania to Palestine 3 Club Imperial 4 Questions & Answers (Q.491) Did Ala Littoria fly mail addressed to Britain in late June 1940? 5 (Q.492) Was there an Airmail Service to Australia via India in 1931? 6 (Q.493) Spanish Civil War. Par Avion Jusqu'a Roma, but where then? 7 Articles Pan American Airways Trip Summaries 7 A Wartime Odyssey, Buenos Aires to Saigon 9 I see a speck! (early airmail to DEI) 10 FAM-22 and the "Uranium" Story 17 The First Air Mail from Mocambique via SNAM 18 Primary Source: City of Birmingham Crash at Assuan, June 1931 22 A Question of Authenticity (Zeppelin 1830 Error) 25 The Unpredictability of War 26

Air Mail News: Volume 56, Number 223, November 2013 Questions & Answers (Q.494) The Meaning of CGDT 2 (Q.495) Dornier DoX Transatlantic Flight 2 (A.488) Yankee Clipper Crash - Additional Information 2 (A.492) Was there an Airmail Service to Australia via India in 1931? 3 Articles France to Argentina, September 1944 4 Primary Source: 18th September or 9th November 1939? 6 "I see a Speck" The Birth of the KNILM: Part 2 9 Transpacific Airmail from India in World War II 19 The Germany to South America Service in Transition to War 27 FAM 22 - Unintended Consequences 29

Air Mail News: Volume 56, Number 224, February 2014 Letters to the Editor Special Mission Flight 16th-20th January 1 Questions & Answers (Q.496) An Unknown Fokker Aircraft 2 (Q.497) Seahorse Cover to Venezula, 1935 2 (Q.498) The Speke Spokes and Skynet 3 (Q.499) Postage Rates from Aden to the USA 3 (A.494) The Meaning of C.G.D.T. 3 (A.495) Dornier DoX Transatlantic Flight 4 (A.496) An Unknown Fokker Aircraft 4 (A.497) Seahorse Cover to Venezuela, 1935 5 Articles Short Bros S23 Empire Flying Boat Calpurnia, G-AETW 5 First Commercial Westerly Flight Around the World 8 "I See a Speck": Part III Stepping Stones 9 British Island Airways 15 Eight Annas Air Mail Envelope 18 The RAF Coronation Flypast and Naval Review of 1953 19 Two Covers from Russia to French Colonial Africa 20 Prisoner of War Airmail. A Fascination 22 An Unusual Enna Jettic Newfoundland Air Mail Cover 26 Air Mail News: Volume 56, Number 225, May 2014 Letters to the Editor Prisoner of War Airmail 1 Calpurnia Crash Covers 1 Round the World Covers 1 Excambrian, American Export Airlines 2 Questions & Answers (Q.500) Serialisation of WWII Airgraphs? 3 (Q.501) Loss of Imperial Airways aircraft Boadicea 25th September 1936 3 (Q.502) First Flight Cover - London to Budapest, 1st April 1935 4 (Q.503) Johannesburg Empire Exhibition, South Africa, 1936 4 Articles Empire Airmail Scheme, 1937, GPO Leaflet P41 6 The "Cygnus" Crash, more than just a cover 7 Air Mail Covers from Tanganyika to USA, 1927 - 1930 8 Inward Air Mail to the Belgian Congo, 1925 to 1935 9 A tale of two Covers, Lebanon 15 The Dornier Do-X 17

Air Mail News: Volume 57, Number 226, August 2014 Questions & Answers (Q.504) What Route did this postcard follow? 1 (Q.505) Was this carried by air from Lisbon? 2 (A.500) Serialisation of WWII Airgraphs 3 (A.501) Boadicea Crash 4 (A.505) Was this carried by air from Lisbon? 5 Articles Primary Source: Hong Kong Post Office Notice, 1936 6 Chile to Argentina: Airpost over the Andes, 1929 7 Mail carried by LATI to the Americas: English Censorship in Bermuda and the Caribbean 9 The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia 16 The Wartime Trans-Atlantic Flights can get quite complicated 19 African Repositioning Flights in June 1940 20 Was this an Opportunist Diversion of Swiss Trans-Atlantic Air Mail? 24 A very Puzzling 1925 French Air Mail Cover to the United States 27

Air Mail News: Volume 57, Number 227, November 2014 Letters to the Editor "Mixed Franking" on WWII APO Covers 1 Chile to Argentina, 1929 1 Opportunist Swiss Trans Atlantic Air Mail 2 Commentary on Julian's Swiss Covers 3 Questions & Answers (Q.506) First Flight from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba 19th May 1934 3 Articles Air mail Letter from France to Colombia, South America dated 16th April 1945 4 Colourful Philatelic Air Mail Covers from the Free Polish Forces in Palestine and Italy to the USA showing Miami 4 Transit Marks Follow-up to Robert Clark's Article in AMN August 2014 8 New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Airlines 11 Airpost over the Andes, 1929 17 The Flying Demonstrations of C A Pegoud 1913-1914 20 Reference List of Flying Boats 25 Four Covers a Career: Brayton L Meyer 27 Air Mail News: Volume 57, Number 228, February 2015 Articles New York to Sumatra, 1946 1 Primary Source: Imperial Airways Pilot Refuses to Accept Mail at Athens, 1933 2 The Orange Hotel 3 Indian Air Mail Curiosities 11 England - Australia Route in Early to Mid June 1940 13 Post WWII Routes from USA to China 16 Early German Airpost 17 UK to Cairo and Back via the Mediterranean 18 The Do-X Surprints of Surinam 22

Air Mail News: Volume 57, Number 229, May 2015 Questions & Answers (Q.507) Route & Rate, Sudan to Germany 1 (Q.508) Rates from and to the Belgian Congo 1 (Q.509) That extra 1½d 2 (Q.510) Which crash was this cover involved in? 3 (Q.511) What Route? Cover Djibouti to Berlin October 1935 3 (A.507) Route & Rate, Sudan to Germany 4 (A.510) Which crash was this cover involved in? 4 Articles United Airlines Crash on the Approach to Cheyenne Airport, Wy, 1946 5 Primary Source: Transatlantic Airmail Service, Memo March 1940 5 The ICS Aviation Tour of Great Britain, 1912 9 La Cordillere des Andes Vol de Reconnaissance 11 Rare Aquila Airways Crash Cover Discovered 13 First Flight from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 1934 15 "LATI Substitute", an Update 22 Aspects of Chilean LATI Mail 26 Post WWII Airmail Across the Pacific 29 Airmail to Sweden and Return 1929 31

Air Mail News: Volume 58, Number 230, August 2015 Letters to the Editor La Cordilliere des Andes Vol de Reconnaissance 1 Rates from and to the Belgian Congo 3 APO covers 'Mixed' Franking 4 Questions & Answers (Q.512) SCADCA seaplane Fokker F13 from Bogata 5 (Q.513) Registered Cover from Noumea, New Caledonia 5 (A.507) Route and Rates, Sudan to Germany 5 (A.508) Rates to and from the Belgian Congo 6 (A.509) The extra 1½d 7 Articles The 1935 Transatlantic Flight of the "Lieutenant de Vaisseau Paris" 8 Re-directed Air Mail Letters 11 A Mystery Solved: Shell Aviation Fasher - Khartoum 19 Air Mail from Axis and Neutral Europe to the USA via LATI and South America 1940-1941 20 Air Mail News: Volume 58, Number 231, November 2015 Letters to the Editor APO Covers 'Mixed' Franking 1 Questions & Answers (Q.515) An unassuming Argentine airmail cover dated Buenos Aeries 25 Ago 39 / 13 to Poland 1 (Q.516) Postal Services at Foynes, Ireland 2 (A.513) Registered Cover from Noumea, New Caledonia 2 (A.509) The Extra 1½d 4 (A.515) An unassuming Argentine airmail cover dated Buenos Aeries 25 Ago 39 / 13 to Poland 4 Articles A September 1942 Air Mail Cover from Kilindi, Kenya to New York with Links to Undercover Operations 5 Crash of the City of Khartoum 6 Switzerland - Australia: Last KLM Flight from Naples on 9th June 1940 7 'Hastening the Mail' Some American Airmail Connection Innovations in the 1920-30s 12 Four (Now Six!) covers a Career 14 Further Notes on the Do-X North & South Atlantic Airmail 15 It Occurred to Me 24 A Newspaperflown by the Short S.20 Long-Range Composite Mercury 26 Trading with the Enemy 28

Air Mail News: Volume 58, Number 232, February 2016 Questions & Answers (Q.517) BOAC South Pacific flight from Suva, Fiji 1 (Q.518) What is or was the Shortest Air Mail Route in the World? 1 (Q.518) French South Atlantic airmail operations 2 Articles Camp de Gurs, France, Airmail to White Plains USA, 20th February 1941 2 Primary Source: Northern Rhodesia Gazette, Routes 13 Mail Time Table 3 By Air from Romania to Croatia in August 1941 5 Remembering Queen Astrid and the Crash of Sabena OO-AIU 10 Further Notes on the Do-X North&South Atlantic AirMail Part 2 16 A Cover Flown by Imperial Airways' Mercury to New York, July 1938 26

Air Mail News: Volume 58, Number 233, May 2016 Questions & Answers (A.518) The Shortest Air Mail Route 1 Articles Angola to the USA 2 Primary Source: Empire Air Mail Scheme - Stage 3, Singapore to Sydney 3 My Favourite Cover: Germany to USA by LATI 5 Great Britain to China in 1942 8/td> Rhodesian and Nyasaland Airways' Use of Umtali Aerodrome 1935-1940 15 Where are all the 1921 - 1926 Period Argentine River Plate Air Mail Covers? 24 Beyond the Bounds of Aerophilately 28 First Transatlantic Air Service to the Arctic 32 Cover salvaged from the Charles Haar Crash january 1938 35 Air Mail News: Volume 59, Number 234, August 2016 Questions & Answers (Q.519) Was this cover returned to the sender? 1 (Q.520) Can anyone explain the postage on these WWII British air mail covers to Canada? 2 Articles 31st July 1934, Lerwick, Shetland to St Annes on Sea, Lancashire 4 Air Mail Connection between Africa and India / Ceylon in 1932-1933 5 Waddon Aerodrome Postmarks 19 Australian Air Mail Across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 1937-1945: Part 1 23 Canadian Air Mail Cover to South Africa - 1939 29 A Million Miles in the Air 31 Imperial Airways Airliner HP 42 Hannibal G-AAGX caught in a 'Habbob' or Desert Storm 34

Air Mail News: Volume 59, Number 235, November 2016 Questions & Answers (A.520) Postage on W.W.II Period British Air Mail Covers to Canada 9 (Q.521) Imperial Airways North Atlantic Air Mails: How were the German First Flight Acceptances returned to 10 Germany? (A.522) Who carried the mail on the Galway to Berlin Flight of 22nd October 1932? 11 (Q.523) Why was Air mail Service between the United States an Finland Suspended in May 1945? 12 Articles North Ronaldsay, Orkney Isles, 31st July 1939 14 Flights of the German Airship LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" 15 Australian Air mail across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 1937-1945: Part2 19 Typically British Weather! 33

Air Mail News: Volume 59, Number 236, February 2017 Questions & Answers (A.522) How the Mail was carried on the Galway to Berlin Flight of 22nd October 1932 15 (A.523) The Reason Air mail service between USA and Finland Suspended in May 1945 15 (Q.524) Capt. Harold MacMickle 16 (Q.525) How were the "By Airmail from New York via PAA and SCADTA" Etiquettes Distributed? 16 (Q.526) Why did this 1932 Indian Letter to England have a pair of 1 Rupee postage stamps? 17 Articles Wartime Air Mail Rates from Brazil Part 1 1933-1934 18 "Mercury" Re-visited 27 A Second Rare Aquila Airways Crash Cover Discovered 30 Switzerland to the Philippines in 1941 34 Ligne Mermoz Flights 3A & 3R: Mail from the First Round Trip of the "Croix-du-Sud" 36

Air Mail News: Volume 59, Number 237, May 2017 Letters Ligne Mermoz Flights 3A and 3R 10 Questions & Answers (A.522) More on the Galway to Berlin Flight of 22nd October 1932 17 (A.525) How the "By Airmail from New York via P.A.A. and SCADTA" Etiquettes were Distributed 17 (A.526) Possible Reasons for the Extra Pair of 1 Rupee Stamps on a 1932 Letter to England 19 (Q.527) Why was this Luxembourg Cover to Columbia sent via the Belgian Air Mail Service? 19 Articles Francis J. Field's Little Trademark 20 Australian Air mail across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 1937-1945: part 3. Mail by Sea and Air to Europe, 22 1942-1944 and mail via Trans-Pacific Military Services, 1942-1945 Some FAM-18 First Flight Covers of Character 33 An April 1945 Registered Air Mail Letter from the Polish Forces in Italy 40 Air Mail News: Volume 60, Number 238, August 2017 Letters Ligne Mermoz Flights 3A and 3R 13 South African FAM 18 First Flight Covers 15 A Reply to Bill Trower's Article "Mercury Re-Visited" 17 Colour Variants of FAM-18 First Flight cachets 18 Wartime Air Mail Rates from Brazil 20 Modern British Air Mail Rates 22 Questions & Answers (A.527) Luxembourg Covers sent via the Belgian Air Mail Service 23 (Q.528) Information Requested about this 1939 Papua New Guinea First Flight Cover 23 (Q.529) How and Why was this Dutch 'First Flight' Cover Flown to Romania in December 1929? 24 (Q.530) Is this a Return Flight Cover from the Galway-London-Galway Experimental Flight of 26th August 1929? 25 Articles Also Flown by New Zealand Internal Air Mail 27 Wartime Air Mail Rates from Brazil: Part 2 1934-1945 34 A Rare Pan AM Survey Cover 41

Air Mail News: Volume 60, Number 239, November 2017 Questions & Answers (A.530) The Galway to Berlin Flight of 22nd October 1932 7 (Q.531) How was this New Zealand cover Flown to England at the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbour? 10 (Q.532) Could these Colombian Air Mail Covers to Europe have been Flown the South Atlantic Route? 10 (Q.533) Which of these Two British Guinea 'First Flight' Covers is Correct? 12 (Q.534) Where was this Cover Delayed for over Seven Years? 13 Articles Flown from UK to New Zealand via USA in July-August 1940? 13 Roumanian Transatlantic Air mails during World War II 16 China National Aviation Corporation 27 Horseshoe Route Disruption - Iraq, May- June 1941 30 Mail Launched from the S.S. 'Ile de France' by Catapult towards New York in August 1928 32 A BAMS Member's Eyewitness Account of Thai Airways Crash at Kai Tak, Hong Kong 30 June 1967 36

Air Mail News: Volume 60, Number 240, February 2018 Questions & Answers (A.531) New Zealand cover flown at the time Japan attacked Pearl Harbour 15 (A.533) Comments about the Two British Guiana "First Flight" Covers to Jamaica 16 (Q.535) Were these Montserrat Air Mail Covers flown beyond St. Kitts 16 (A.534) Delayed Wartime Mail from Papua New Guinea 17 (Q.536) What is the Inscription in this Peruvian Postmark? 20 (Q.537) What were the Danish Air Postage Rates to Tanganyika in 1936? 21 (Q.538) How would you Describe this Chilean Air Mail Cover? 22 (Q.539) Why was this British Air Mail Cover charged 6c Postage Due? 23 Articles Raid Samat, November 1933 23 The Puzzling World of Air Parcel Cards 30 The Horseshoe Route from the United Kingdom: October 1941 - January 1942 40 FAM 4 Key West to Havana in 1927 44 Air Mail News: Volume 60, Number 241, May 2018 Letters Air Parcel Cards 4 Horseshoe Route Disruption 8 Questions & Answers (A.536) The Inscription on a Callao, Peru Postmark 13 (A.539) Probable reason a British Air Mail cover to Montana was charged 6c Postage Due 13 (A.538) How to describe Robin Jarman's Chilean Air Mail Cover 14 (Q.540) Were these covers flown the last flight by NYRBA and the First Flight by Pan American Airways in Brazil 16 in 1930? (Q.541) Any Expanation for this 5s 0d Rated Cover to Singapore in 1936? 19 Articles Railway Air Services, the Inaugural Flights (20th August 1934) 20 Australian Air mail across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, 1937-1945: an Addendum to Part 2, PAA's South 23 Pacific Service from Auckland to San Francisco Philatelists at War 24 The German Catapult Mail of the North Atlantic. Part 1 27 The Short-lived United States Postal Agency at Cali, Colombia - its Role in the Routing of International Mails 29 Condemned and Held by Bermudan Censors 33 A Query Solved: South Africa to New York 1948 35