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July 2015 Volume 86, No. 7 Whole No. 1021

July’s Featured Article — American Around-the-World (ATW) Flights Page 270 Zeppelins & Aerophilately Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website!

United States / Germany 1927 NY to Berlin AAMS T.O. 1056 Columbia . $1,750.00 1930 C13 - C15 Pan Am flight Round Trip S.64D II ...... $2,950.00 Germany / Luxembourg 1931 Bremen catapult (K59 LX $1500) ...... $1,000.00 Zanzibar 1934 10th South America Flight sent to London, then Germany to Brazil S.28Aa ...... $1,750.00 Afghanistan 1933 8th South America Flight sent to Brazil S.235A . . . . . $4,250.00 Andorra 1933 2nd South America Flight via Paris, sent to Brazil S.214A ...... $1,000.00 Austria 1932 (June 22) Catapult cover Europa to New York sent by registered mail to Costa Rica. Stamped "Received in ordinary mail N.Y.P.O. Var - ick S" Backstamped Berlin, New York and Costa Rica on reverse. K111AU cv $800.00 Hab. 89 ...... $750.00 British Somaliland 1933 8th South America Flight sent to Brazil S.235Aa . . . . $2,250.00 Canada 1936 Hindenburg to France S.409G ...... $750.00 Cyrenaica 1935 5th South American Flight sent to Brazil S.302Aa . . . . . $500.00 Denmark 1933 C3, C5 Registered Catapult 7 carried (K143 DK $1000) $875.00 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com

JULY 2015 PAGE 265 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal Letters to — ARTICLES — American Around-the-World (ATW) Flights ...... 270 the Editor David S. Ball, RPSL Zeppelins and Beyond ...... 278 William Kriebel Not Just ‘Pretty Pictures’ Albert F. Zahm and his Glider Flying ...... 298 I am replying to John Wilson's letter in the March 2015 issue of Simine Short the Airpost Journal. I believe all members should be able to collect what interests — COLUMNS and FEATURES — them and be able to express their opinions. I have been a member since Letters to the Editor ...... 267 the 1960s and have collected FAM 14 at least that long. In my opinion, I President’s Message ...... 268 do not believe my collection should be looked at as "pretty pictures." I do Airmail Elsewhere in Print ...... 284 believe that it is the FAM-CAM collector who has kept the AAMS going Canadian Air Mail Notes ...... 288 all these years. APJ Book Review ...... 300 Jack Graham

— NEWS — Works Should Have Been Cited Correction to May 2015 Article ...... 297 On page 229 of the last issue (June 2015), John Wilson begins, Americans Win Another Pillage Trophy ...... 301 Major AAMS Awards for 2015 ...... 303 "Recent articles (not in the Airpost Journal) . . . Is there a reason for not citing the author to whom he is referring? This is a scholarly journal. — DEPARTMENTS – Most current readers will recognize the reference. In a few years it will APJ Ads ...... 308 not be so readily identifiable. Membership Report ...... 305 I do think that the editor should have filled in the information Thomas P. Myers

No Mail on the Fourth of July (Ed. Note: This email was written to Richard Saundry in regards to his article, Editor and Advertising “Onward Air Transmission of Hindenbur g Mail from New York,”which Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 appeared in Page 142-145 of the April 2015 Airpost Journal.) vcanfi[email protected] It was a very interesting article in the latest APJ. You are right Staff Writers and Columnists that it is very difficult to determine actual airmail transportation within Joe Kirker Alan Warren Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer the U.S. due to the lack of arrival postmarks. U.S. post officers were Copyright 2015 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - indeed very lousy in terms of applying arrival postmarks. But was all lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. Hindenburg zeppelin mail intended for domestic airmail actually for - Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send warded by surface transportation as you have stated? address changes to American Air Mail Society, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787. Domestic sub - scription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. The cover illustrated on page 144/145 is not quite the best cover Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and to prove your point. In my opinion it actually was flown. The Hindenburg do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. arrived in New Jersey on July 2 at 4:18 a.m. After customs clearance at

PAGE 266 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 267 Lakehurst, the entire mail load was flown to New York and the Morgan side. All costs of exhibiting – both direct and indirect – have risen signifi - Annex post office sorted and forwarded the mail according to sender’s cantly recently. Many exhibitors are cutting back on the number of exhi - preferences and destination. I have no idea how long this procedure at bitions they plan to participate in or even attend. With the New York Lakehurst and New York took. This might compare to any arrival in the 2016 World Philatelic Exhibition now less than 12 months out, anyone U.S.: you can be through customs and immigration in five minutes or planning to attend is going into the savings mode now. It is certain that after six hours you are still waiting in the immigration line. New York will not be a cheap date. In any event, following that procedure, on July 2 at 4:30 p.m., My primary interest areas in aerophilately do not extend into the United Air Lines flew from New York to San Francisco, arriving the next development and operations of Pan American Airways, in spite of the day at 9:16 a.m. The next flight left New York at 11 p.m., arriving in San fact that it is arguably the richest and most inviting area in American Francisco the next day at 4:11 p.m. Whatever flight your cover actually aerophilately. Those with any deep interest in PAA know that the took, it arrived at San Francisco on July 3 and was forwarded by surface Richter Library at the University of Miami in Florida holds the PAA from San Francisco to Palo Alto, a small hop of only 30 miles. So your archives, a treasure trove of primary source information. A great deal of cover arrived at Palo Alto either late on July 3 or early on July 4. This is information from that source can also be found on the website of the meaningless because the cover was neither postally serviced nor deliv - West Africa Study Circle, presented there as a free download source. ered on July 4; this is Independence Day in the U.S. and nothing is mov - The availability of archives varies greatly. Access is becoming ing (except fireworks). On July 5, 1936 nothing was moving either: this increasingly difficult. Much of what one would expect to find is missing. was a Sunday. So your cover finally arrived at Palo Alto on Monday, July The problems in many cases begin with poor record keeping at the out - 6. It was postmarked and a first attempt was made to deliver the cover. set . . . records that were never made or kept. Wars, mergers, consolida - tions, bankruptcies, politics, inconsistent practices and passage of time President’s have all taken their toll. The list of reasons to ignore or scrap old records is much longer than the list of reasons to organize, preserve and grant Jim Graue Message access to them. The records made 50 or 80 years ago are not viewed as potential areas of profit by today’s management. Only historians want to A second was made on July 8. see any of them. So this is my analysis and why I think that the cover was actual - Introduce a friend to the wonderful world of Aerophilately . . . ly flown from New York to San Francisco. give a membership to the Dieter Leder Deadlines being what they are for our Airpost Journal , this is American Air Mail Society! being written on June 1, only three days before departing for our 2015 AAMS convention in conjunction with NAPEX. It has been very quiet recently, the calm before the storm? There is nothing stirring on the AAMS election front that I know of at this time. Perhaps something will develop at the convention. I am disappointed that more of us are not exhibiting at NAPEX. Aerophilately 2014 revealed that we have many exhibitors with exceed - ingly interesting exhibits, but only a handful chose to show at NAPEX. Most appear to be on “spring break” when it comes to exhibiting. The costs of exhibiting have been increasing notably for some time. We are at a point where the balance between “desire” and “cost” is skewed to cost considerations becoming more decisive on the negative PAGE 268 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 269 What archives there are merit attention now, as they are general - by air. Traveling 26,350 miles in 371 hours (over a span of over five ly seen as having rapidly diminishing importance with the passage of months) amphibian Douglas World Cruisers flew from Seattle, Washing - time. Archives would make the “endangered species” list in a heartbeat. ton, to Seattle, Washington. Of the fleet of four that began the journey, And there are no substitutes or second chances. two crossed the finish line. AIRMAIL . . . the most important postal development This was an age when a young man could buy a plane, learn to of the 20th century! fly and write his own ticket. Lindbergh had his first ride in an airplane in American Around-the-World 1922. The following year he bought a World War I Curtiss “Jenny” and soloed. Within two years he was hired as chief pilot for the CAM 2 route (ATW) Flights between St. Louis and Chicago and two years after that he become the world’s first true celebrity and remained one for the rest of his life. Wiley Post had a similar meteoric rise. He was working in the Davis S. Ball, RPSL Oklahoma oil fields in 1926 when a metal chip from a workman’s ham - In 1926 Clarence Keller sent an airmail letter from Wichita, Kansas addressed to himself. With 71-cents postage, it winged its way from country to country and eventually, after 103 days, found itself back in his mailbox. While not the first envelope carried by air, nor perhaps the first carried around the world, it represented an early fascination with Around the World (ATW) mail. Just two years earlier the U.S. Navy pulled off an impressive dis - play of airmanship (as well as logistics) by circumnavigating the globe

Figure 2 Flown envelope carried by Post and Gatty on their record-setting pace.

mer blinded him in one eye. He used the $1,700 workman’s compensa - tion settlement to buy a plane. Within a year he was the personal pilot to an oil baron with a daughter named “Winnie Mae.” Post started winning long-distance races and became famous. In June 1931 he departed Roo - sevelt Field, New York, (just as Lindbergh had in 1927) headed east. Figure 1 Unlike the five months it took the Navy to make the trip in 1924, Post The first successful Around-the-World flight carried mail but this and his Australian navigator, Harold Gatty, were back in eight days, 15 is not one of them. Flown mail has both American and British postage hours and 51 minutes. and is exceeding scarce. An example recently sold for four figures on eBay. In addition to a Mineola, New York, postmark the cover in Fig - ure 2 bears a Soviet rubber stamp impression. About half the trip PAGE 270 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 271 occurred over Russia including the cities of Moscow, Novo Sibirsk, Irkut - known examples have a used Russian stamp affixed but not tied. sk, Blagoveshchensk, and Khabarovsk. Milton Reynolds, who made his fortune at the end of World War II selling the first ballpoint pens, was convinced that besting the around- the-world flight of Howard Hughes would boost sales. His stripped- down Douglas A26 Reynolds Bombshell traveled more than 20,000 miles in 79 hours. His pilot, Bill Odom, repeated the flight solo later in the year, shaving off an additional five hours.

Figure 3

Throughout aviation history key figures have interacted in fasci - nating ways. Howard Hughes learned to fly from Moye Stephens, who also taught Jack Northrup (Northrup Aviation) and Jerry Vultee (Vultee Aircraft) and would fly around the world himself in 1931. Hughes set air speed and transcontinental records as well as supporting numerous designs through his Hughes Aircraft Company. In 1938 he flew 14,672 miles in 91 hours, besting Wiley Post’s 1933 record. Hughes later bought Figure 5 RKO Pictures from Floyd Odlum. Odlum and his aviator wife Jackie Cochran were close friends and supporters of Amelia Earhart and her The attractive airmail envelope (Figure 4) with airmail stamp 1937 attempt to circle the globe. was postmarked on the day the flight returned to New York. Because In support of the 1939 New York World’s Fair, Hughes carried a they did not apply to the Federal Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) number of envelopes postmarked in New York (twice) and Paris (Figure before their flight, their RTW mark was declared unofficial. 3). The covers were given to VIPs and friends. None were sold. All In 1964 Jerrie Mock was a low-time pilot without an all-weather rating who managed the Columbus Airport in Ohio. With her husband’s encouragement, the mother of three spent nearly a month covering 23,103 miles to become the first woman to fly solo around the world. Two days before she left, another woman, Joan Smith, started her own flight around the globe. For Joan, who elected to fly 27,750 miles around the equator, it took 170 hours over 56 days to complete her odyssey in May 1964. Sporting an Amelia Earhart stamp and a modest rubber stamp cachet, the envelope in Figure 5 was self-addressed by Jerrie Mock (mak - ing it an autograph). The stamp was canceled in Columbus on March 19. The reverse has postmarks from Wake Island on April 13 and on her Figure 4 return to Columbus on April 17. PAGE 272 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 273 To honor the memory of Admiral Richard E. Byrd and raise funds for a Polar Center bearing his name, Commander Frederick G.

Figure 7 Figure 6 after Lindbergh, Conrad caught the flying bug when he learned the Lone Dustin, a fuel engineer on the second Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1933- Eagle had flown solo to Paris. A year after he got his pilot's license in 35), organized an around-the-world trans-polar flight. Touted as “the 1928, Max was hit by a spinning prop while trying to save a child. He first commercial flight ever to cross both poles and touch down on all sustained brain damage severely limiting his ability to read, write and continents,” it was originally planned for 1959. Called Polar Byrd I, it speak. Although despondent, he overcame these difficulties and fol - didn’t fly until November 8 to December 3, 1968. lowed his love of flying. A collection of 60 well-heeled businessmen each paid $10,000 for Conrad spent much of his adult life flying solo. He crossed the an adventure of a lifetime. During the 26-day trip around the planet they Atlantic in small Piper aircraft 150 times (and the Pacific 30 times). This rode a bullet train and met the Emperor of Japan, dropped a flag over the father of 10 (and grandfather of 26) circled the world in 1961 and again in North Pole, hunted wild boar in Manila, went for a walkabout in the 1966. He began a pole-to-pole flight in 1968 but abandoned it in 1969. He Australian outback, watched Aborigine dance in Auckland, landed at the continued the challenge later in the year but had to quit when he crashed South Pole, got a suntan in Rio de Janeiro, just missed being massacred leaving the South Pole in January, 1970. The Flying Grandfather was in Senegal, had a private audience with the Pope, saw the Kremlin and quick to say, "I fly because I have an airplane and not a rocking chair." attended the ballet in Moscow. For $2 Max would send you an oversized postcard of himself Unlike a relatively common cover that shows Byrd’s visage, and his Piper Aztec (Figure 7). It detailed the extensive itinerary of his postmarked in Boston on November 8 and backstamped with a red rub - ATW flight. The card was canceled at the bottom of the world the week ber stamp attesting that the #6 envelope accompanied the RTW flight, he crashed and ended his third pole to pole attempt. the postcard in Figure 6 was postmarked in Dundas, Greenland on Dick Rutan is a pilot with guts. He flew 325 combat missions in November 12. The cachet incorporates text, a biplane from the 10-cent C- Vietnam, 105 of them as a member of a high-risk classified operation 74 airmail stamp, globes from the expedition’s literature and ”Multum commonly known as the "MISTYs." While on his last strike reconnais - fecit in tempore brevi,” Latin for “Much he did in a short time.” sance mission over North Vietnam in September 1968, he was hit by Few RTW pilots were as colorful as Max Conrad. Born a year enemy ground fire and forced to eject from his burning F-100. Dick evad - PAGE 274 AIRPOST JOURNAL JUNE 2015 PAGE 275 they returned to Edwards AFB in California just before Christmas they had traveled 24,987 miles non-stop and unrefueled. In addition to aeronautical challenges, Rutan and company spent years trying to find sponsors and raise funds. The multicolored onion - skin envelope in Figure 8 sports the departure and arrival dates as well as the autographs of the brave pilots. Having designed Voyager in the 1980s, Burt Rutan built the Global Flyer to complete the first solo, non- stop and unrefueled ATW flight. Steve Fossett, cut from the same cloth as Dick Rutan, was a multi-millionaire better known for five failed attempts to circle the globe alone by balloon before succeeding in 2002. Fossett held 91 world avia - tion records, including the Absolute World Speed Record for a Zeppelin (71.6 mph). He summited the highest peaks on six of the seven conti -

Figure 8 Airpost Journal Procedures and Deadlines ed enemy capture and was later rescued by the Air Force's "Jolly Green Giant" helicopter team. Before retiring from the Air Force in 1978, Lt. Col. Deadline Rutan was awarded the Silver Star, five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 16 Deadline for the receipt of articles, letters, advertising and Air Medals and the Purple Heart. news is the first of the month preceding the month of publication. For During his career he flew everything from spindly home-builts example, we need everything for the November issue by October 1, designed by his brother, Burt, to high-performance helium and hot air everything for the December issue by November 1, everything for the balloons and rocket-powered aircraft. He is best known, however, for his January issue by December 1 and so on. around-the-world flight in 1986. The preferred method of receiving copy is via an email Piloting Voyager, a 939-pound craft that strained at takeoff with a attachment. Please send as an MS Word document. We also welcome fuel-engorged weight of 9,695 pounds, was the scariest flying Rutan compact disks (CDs.) Hard copy is acceptable but must be rekeyed so would ever do. For the next nine days he struggled, with his girlfriend electronic submission is preferred. Jenna Yeager, to keep the marginally controllable plane in the air. When All submissions are subject to editing for length, clarity and content. Every effort is made to retain the facts without changing the meaning or thrust of the article. Illustrations The most effective way to transmit illustrations is electronical - ly. They should be TIF or JPEG, preferably scanned at 300 dpi but no less than 150 dpi. They can be sent on CD and we can retrieve copy and illustrations from electronic copy if provided the correct routing. Questions can be directed to editor Vickie Canfield Peters by emailing vcanfi[email protected] or by writing to her at 11911 E. Con - nor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. The telephone number is 509-991- Figure 9 5376.

PAGE 276 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 277 nents, passing on Everest due to asthma. Fossett was regarded as the world’s most accomplished speed sailor and held 23 official world records. The Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer carried 500 envelopes with let - ters signed by Fossett (Figure 9). The stamps are postmarked on the day he left Salina, Kansas, and the day he returned. The jet-powered, custom- built aircraft covered 22,877 miles in 67 hours. The following year Fossett circled the globe again twice to bag more records.

Figures 2 and 3

Figure 1 Ad for 1930 Graf Zeppelin South America - Pan American Flight

PAGE 278 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 279 9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fossett References A Three-Part Series on Brazil Airmail Stamps — 1. http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW001F.HTM 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes Part 3: Zeppelins and Beyond 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Reynolds 4. http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW005G.HTM William Kriebel 5. http://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW005U.HTM 6. http://www.southpolestation.com/trivia/igy2/conrad/conrad1.html By 1930, the LUFTSHIFBAU ZEPPELIN G.m.b.H. (“G.m.b.H.,” 7. http://www.dickrutan.com/biography.html

Figure 6

the German equivalent of “Inc.” or “Ltd.,” was once translated for me by my late dear friend and former AAMS member Arnold Engel, as “Grab’em mitt both hands!”) decided to open Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) flight service between Germany and Brazil, via Seville, Spain. Any German or Spanish stamps paid for transport between Europe and two cities in Figure 4 Brazil: Pernambuco (Recife) and Rio de Janeiro. 8. http://burtrutan.com/downloads/SCALEDRAFMannedProjects.pdf Further transport within South America was to be paid by CONDOR stamps, which were sold in Europe and, apparently, on board the air - Figure 7 ship. This accounts for any mixed franking. The “R” on Figure 3 is a Condor registration stamp.

Figure 8

Condor-Zeppelin Figure 5 Special stamps (Figure 4) were issued for the return flight in PAGE 280 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 281 coordination with Syndicato Condor. These stamps, printed in Germany, pictured a stylized view of the zeppelin over the Atlantic Ocean and a sailing ship (an allu - sion to Columbus). The outstretched wings of Syndicato Condor are right under “First Commercial Flight.” After the initial issue, the three values were overprinted for mail destined for the United States (Figure 5). An increased demand for the two lower Figure 9 values resulted in the highest value being overprinted, as shown in Figure 6 (20,000rs was $2.40 in 1930 or about $34.00 today).

Figure 11 Some of the 20,000rs stamps were over - printed with a large “5” locally in Parahyba (now spelled Paraíba), a small town 70 miles north of Recife. The actual need/legitimacy of this stamp is questionable, especially by this author and other philatelists. Some 13 copies (on and off covers) of Figure 12 this so-called “Parahyba 5” are known to exist, but are rarely seen more than two together. Needless to say, forgeries exist! (Illustration from an auction catalog.) Subsequently, copies of the green CONDOR 1,300rs (Figure 8) with the value blocked out were overprinted “Graf Zeppelin/Rs.5$000” (4,995 copies) and “Graf Zeppelin/Rs.10$000”(1,600 copies), the latter with two horizontal lines below the new text. The higher value was never officially issued and multiples of either of the stamps are not com - mon. Few are found on cover (Figure 10). Figure 10 Aerophilatelic Writers Wanted. Want to buy, trade or sell? No experience necessary. Take advantage of the classifieds (It’s just the job for YOU!) Write an article today and send it to the editor: ads featured monthly in the APJ vcanfi[email protected]

PAGE 282 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 283 Chris Hargreaves continues the never-ending saga of the strange boxed D.w. markings on airmail of the 1930s associated with Winnipeg, in the March issue of The Canadian Aerophilatelist. Another conjecture is Airmail Elsewhere in Print that the abbreviation may mean “delayed weight,” indicating the intend - ed flight could not carry the piece due to a load limit. Still another sug - Alan Warren gestion is that airmail service was discontinued and the mail was divert - ed to carriage by train. Several more covers are shown with this marking What many people, including collectors, didn’t realize is that the including a 1942 piece, which is the only known use of the mark during Condor-Zeppelin issues were just valid for the first, and only, 1930 flight the 1940s. (in spite of the wording on the stamps). Apparently, the Brazil Post Joe Kirker recently published a book on the United States Airmail Office did realize this and, presuming the flights would continue, rather Stamps 1918: History and Analysis of First Day of Sale Postal Use . Kirker hurriedly overprinted several of the previously issued airmail stamps, in describes the auction history of many of these covers and makes an 1931, and two of the regular (definitive) issues, in 1932 (Figure 11). assessment of which ones appear to be genuine. Beginning in the Febru - In 1933, Brazil issued an airmail stamp with a Brazilian flag and ary issue of The United States Specialist published by the United States a stylized airplane in flight (Figure 12). Stamp Society, Ken Lawrence offers the first in a four-part series compar - The round-trip Zeppelin flights continued for the next few years. ing his analysis of these covers to that of Kirker. He uses some of the The newer, larger Hindenburg (LZ-129) entered service in 1936. The Hin - more recent resources previously not available including the Philatelic denburg crash at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937, marked the end Foundation certificates and the database of Robert A. Siegel Auction Gal - of an era. In all, 73 round trips were made to Brazil by the two airships. leries. The earlier airmail stamps were reprinted several times, but by Lawrence’s first installment addresses the covers bearing the 24- 1941, the stamps no longer featured subjects related to flight, other than: cent bicolor issue. In the March issue of the Specialist he looks at covers Gusmão (1944); the St. Cloud, France, monument (1947); Santos- with the 16-cent green Curtiss Jenny and in the April issue the 6¢ orange Dumont’s first flight (1956); and the inauguration of jet service (1959). stamp. The actual day of issue is not clearly recorded for these first three Politics, tourism, personalities and historic events took over. The last airmail stamps and the earliest documented use (EDU) is therefore of designated “airmail” issue was in 1966 and commemorated the birth cen - interest. Lawrence examines all the clues available including sender, tenary of a painter! addressee, cancellations, markings on the reverse and literature sources. [This is an occasional column bringing attention to articles about aerophilately In his final installment in the May Specialist he summarizes his analyses that appear in other journals. Copies of the complete articles can usually be and conclusions. obtained from the American Philatelic Research Library in Bellefonte PA.] Writing in the December issue of Journal of Chinese Philately , S. Martin Shelton describes the differences between the Peking and Hong Ken Lawrence continues his airmail series in Linn’s Stamp News’ Kong printings of China’s second and third airmail issues, released “Spotlight on Philately” articles in the March 16 issue. This article covers between 1929 and 1941. Differences include perforation, paper thickness, Britain’s Imperial Airways and BOAC trans-Atlantic mail of 1937-1940. watermark, size of the image and flaws in the bottom frame line. He begins with the survey flights for Bermuda in 1937. In 1939 Pan Am Arthur Groten writes briefly about Glenn Curtiss in the April inaugurated FAM 18 service from New York to France and Imperial issue of American Stamp Dealer & Collector. Although Curtiss no longer began England to New York service via Foynes, Botwood and Montreal. flew competitively after 1910 he attended a number of national and inter - British Overseas Airways became the successor to Imperial Air - national aviation meets in 1911 to promote his biplane. Groten shows ways and took over the trans-Atlantic flights in 1940. Lawrence describes ephemera associated with these events in the form of medals, tickets, five such round-trip flights and shows mail from several of them. leaflets and covers. Tony Wawrukiewicz and Gene Fricks report a little-known PAGE 284 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 285 PAGE 286 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 287 Canadian Air Mail Notes

Chris Hargreaves

Figure 2 The northbound route from Albany to Montreal, was operated by CANADIAN COLONIAL AIRWAYS, INC. The southbound route from Mon - treal to Albany was operated by CANADIAN COLONIAL AIRWAYS, LTD. Both companies were subsidiaries of COLONIAL AIR TRANSPORT, INC. [3]

Figure 1 First flight cover, New York to Montreal trans-Atlantic airmail rate from the United States to Australia via Eng - land in the May-June Collectors Club Philatelist . A 1937 U.S. Postal Guide Supplement confirms not only the 44¢ per half ounce airmail rate via Eng - land but also the domestic air rate within Australia of an additional 5¢. The July 19, 1937 cover bears a pair of the 20¢ trans-Pacific airmail stamps plus a 9¢ Fourth Bureau Jefferson to achieve the required 49¢ franking, including transit from Sydney to Melbourne. It arrived at Mel - bourne August 10. Steve Swain describes the “other” National Air Mail Week in the May issue of U.S. Stamp News. Instead of the famous May 15-21, 1938 event he talks about the October 27 – November 2, 1946 affair. The first event was promoted by PMG Farley to celebrate 20 years of airmail ser - Figure 3 vice and to boost business for the airlines. Fraternal, civil and other orga - First flight cover, Montreal to Albany, October 1,1928. nizations as well as the public-at-large were encouraged to write letters to be sent by air. Towns and cities created cacheted envelopes for the In contrast, the 1946 event, announced by President Harry Tru - event. The issuance of the blue and red eagle airmail stamp (Scott C23) at man, vaguely urged the public to promote “international unity” with the the beginning of the week helped spark the celebration. use of airmail. Another new stamp, the five-cent DC-4 Skymaster (Scott PAGE 288 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 289 C32), marked the new reduced postage rate, but it was issued more than a month before the celebration. There was much less interest in the 1946 October 1, 1928 promotion with very few cachets created and leaving the public to its own devices. Hence the philatelic evidence of this later event is much Second U.S. - Canada Air less known.

Figure 4 Figure 5 Program for October 1, 1928 Schedule of events, October 1, 1928

PAGE 290 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 291 Figure 7: front (above) and back Postmarked ALBANY OCT 1 7AM and backstamped MONTREAL Figure 6 1 PM OC 1 28 and TORONTO 7 OC 2 28, indicating it traveled by overnight “Air Mail Post Office at St. Hubert Airport near Montreal, Canada.” train from Montreal to Toronto. Mail Route Inaugurated But why was it called F.A.M. 1? This service operated on a daily basis (except Sundays) north - bound from New York to Montreal (figures 1, 2) and southbound only from Montreal to Albany (Figure 3), continuing by surface to England. October 1, 1928 was the first day of the new five-cent rate for airmail within Canada or to addresses in the United States, England and the British Empire. This cover is franked with Canada’s first air mail stamp, issued September 21, 1928. The schedule called for a mail plane to leave New York at 7 a.m. and arrive in Albany at 8:30 a.m. This plane then returned to New York. [1, page 28.] A second plane would leave Albany at 8:45 a.m. and arrive in Montreal at 11:15, leaving plenty of time for the mail from New York to 4:50 p.m., at which point mail would be transferred to a train, to reach be delivered in Montreal that afternoon. This plane would then leave for New York in time for delivery the next morning. (Figure 3 was post - Albany at 2:30 p.m., carrying mail from Montreal and from Toronto. (A marked in Montreal at noon on October 1, then backstamped in Albany daily airmail service between Toronto and Montreal was also inaugurat - at 6:30 p.m., and New York at 7:30 a.m. on October 2.) ed on October 1, 1928: a mail plane was scheduled to leave Toronto at The inauguration of the New York - Montreal service was a big 9:45 a.m. daily (except Sunday) and arrive in Montreal at 1:00 p.m. [2] deal in 1928. More than 15,000 people went to the airfield to see the air - The plane from Montreal was scheduled to arrive in Albany at craft and to watch the special events. [4] The cover of the 16-page sou -

PAGE 292 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 293 venir programme is shown in Figure 4 and the schedule of events in Fig - ure 5. There was also a special post office set up for people to send sou - venir mail: a picture postcard of the post office is shown in Figure 6. For the inauguration, it was planned that Pilot Billy Hughes would fly the mail all the way from New York to Montreal with a stop in Albany. However, Hughes was delayed and did not leave New York until 7:35 a.m. When there was no sign of him in Albany at 8:30 a.m., a reserve plane was brought out and Pilot Paul Reeder flew the mail from Albany to Montreal, arriving at 11:20 a.m., just five minutes behind schedule. The Montreal - Toronto airmail plane was held back and took off five minutes after Paul Reeder arrived. Although it appeared that mail had been transferred between the two planes, all the mail from the Albany plane was sent to Montreal for processing and backstamped at 1:00 p.m. (Figure 7). [1, 3.] The rectangular cachet ALBANY N.Y. WHERE AIRWAYS, RAILWAYS, HIGHWAYS & WATERWAYS MEET was applied to covers serviced through the Canadian Colonial Airways office in Albany. Figure 8 Some collectors had prepared covers with both U.S. and Canadi - Addressed to Buffalo, N.Y. and postmarked ALBANY OCT 1 7 AM an franking in order to get round-trip covers with both first flight 1928 with F.A.M. 1 cachet. Second postmark: MONTREAL 1PM OC 1 28 plus Canadian FFC cachet. Backstamped ALBANY OCT 1 6.30PM 1928 cachets. (The Canadian Post Office only applied its cachet to covers with and BUFFALO OCT 2 5.30AM 1928 Canadian franking.) Covers from Albany with double franking were processed in time to connect with the southbound flight which left at

Figure 9 Addressed to Louisville, Ky., postmarked NEW YORK OCT 1 Figure 10 4.30AM with F.A.M.-1 cachet. Backstamped MONTREAL 3PM OC 1 28. If FAM 3 was inaugurated in April 1923 and FAM 2 between Seat - Second postmark following day MONTREAL 1PM OC 2 28. Backstamped tle and Victoria was inaugurated in October 1920, why is the New York - ALBANY OCT 2 6.30PM 1928 Montreal route inaugurated in 1928 called FAM 1?

PAGE 294 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 295 2:00 p.m, and received both cachets (Figure 8). West - Havana route was America's first foreign air mail route, and the The mail from New York arrived later in the day, and was back - harbinger of a greater harvest ahead." [5] Ron commented that given this stamped at 3 p.m. One consequence of this was that double franked cov - approach to publicity, it was strange the service did not retain the num - ers from New York did not connect with the return flight and only have ber “1," which would just have involved a routine change of contractors. an American cachet. See Figure 9. Why this was not done “remains a mystery to me." [5] This cover also has a Swedish 20-ore stamp and an “anchor” handstamp. I have never seen anything like this before, either as a collec - Month FAM-18 and LATI subs Special missions tor’s embellishment or as a Swedish postal or revenue marking. If any - Aug 42 02 03 04 05 06 09 11 body can provide any information about this marking, please contact the Sep 42 02 03 04 05 06 09 11 author: [email protected] Although an airmail service between Canada and the U.S.A. had Oct 42 02 03 04 05 06 09 11 operated from Victoria to Seattle since 1920, the Canadian Post Office Nov 42 02 03 04 05 06 09 11 12 (1) described the Montreal - Albany air mail service as the “First Internation - Dec 42 02 03 04 05 06 09 12 al Air Mail Service between United States and Canada.” This may well Jan 43 02 03 04 05 06 09 11 12 (2) be because it was the first international air mail service negotiated by the Feb 43 02 lost 04 05 06 09 11 12 Canadian Post Office and partially financed by it. It is more difficult to explain why the United States Post Office Mar 43 02 04 05 06 09 11 12 would call the New York - Montreal service F.A.M. 1, as stated on its Apr 43 02 04 05 06 09 11 12 first flight cachets, when the Seattle - Victoria service was F.A.M. 2! Although Seattle - Victoria was the first U.S. Foreign Air Mail Route to operate, it was in fact the second service to be given a contract. The Then, in Month FAM-18 and LATI subs first contract was awarded by the U.S. Post Office on August 25, 1920 to July May 43 02 04 09 11 (3) Florida West Indies Airways for service from Key West to Havana. The 1928, at Jun 43 02 04 06 09 11 12 (4) contract from Seattle to Victoria was awarded some five weeks later on the Jul 43 02 04 06 09 11 (5) October 2, 1920. However the Seattle - Victoria service was inaugurated same on October 15, 1920, while the Key West - Havana service did not begin time as Aug 43 06 09 11 (6) operating until November 1, 1920. (The service to Havana then operated Pan Am Sep 43 06 09 11 12 for six months, ceasing in May 1921.) was awarded FAM 5 and FAM 6 to Cristobal and San Juan, “the U.S. The third Foreign Air Mail contract was not awarded until 1923. Post Office made the next award to Canadian Colonial and, for reasons It provided for service from New Orleans to Pilottown at the mouth of not fully explained, decided to call it FAM 1". [5] the Mississippi River to meet trans-Caribbean liners (Figure 10). This was Ron Davies had an outstanding record as an aviation historian very logically called FAM 3 when that terminology was adopted around and finished his career as Curator of Air Transport at the Smithsonian 1925. [5] National Air and Space Museum. It seems to me that if Ron could not The Key West - Havana service was revived by Juan Trippe and find out why the New York - Montreal air mail route was numbered Pan American Airways on October 19, 1927, but under a new contract: FAM 1, nobody else ever will! FAM 4. The allocation of FAM route numbers was explored by Ron Special thanks to Dick McIntosh who first showed me the pro - Davies, who noted that when Juan Trippe opened his service from Key Strength in Growth . . . West to Havana, he gave the public, “the distinct impression that the Key Looking for something? Check out the classified ads! Recruit new AAMS members

PAGE 296 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 297 gram from the October 1 inauguration, John Bloor for the scans of the My apologies to John Wilson for making a mistake in the program and Barry Countryman for the postcard; to John Johnson and table that ran with his guest editorial on Page 183 of the May George Sioras for the very enjoyable discussion we had regarding FAM 1 2015 Airpost Journal. I inadvertently merged two tables. covers when they were revising the AAMC listing; and to Basil Burrell The correct tables and accompanying notes appear here: for all the information he provided on many topics in the BNAPS Air Mail Study Group newsletters.

References [1] British North America Philatelic Society, Air Mail Study Group newsletter, December 2004. [2] Official Programme for the Inauguration of the New York - Montreal Air Mail Service, October 1st 1928, reproduced in The Canadian Aerophi - latelis t, December 1998, page 15. [3] American Air Mail Catalogue , (Sixth Edition - Volume Three, 2004), p. 15. Different publications have printed several variations in the names of Note 1 Return of NC-18612 to special mission duty after end of Route 6 flights Miami-Leopoldville. Route 6 should not be confused with the US Post Office mail contract of FAM-6, which is the mail route from Miami to South America. Note 2 Special missions carried on with these aircraft until June 1943. Note 3 First transfer of aircraft from special missions to regular service duty. Note 4 Final special mission (SM91) flight. 06, 09, 11 aircraft now flying regular FAM-18 and LATI substitute routes. Note 5 02, 04, 05 aircraft transferred out of Atlantic Division after July 1943. Note 6 These aircraft continued on the Atlantic certificated ser - vices until 1945. Albert F. Zahm and his Glider Flying the companies involved in F.A.M. 1. I have used the names from the AAMC Sixth edition, as I had personal experience of the lengths that Simine Short John Johnson, George Sioras and William Turner took to make sure that their information was correct. Revisiting my stamp collection recently, I “stumbled” over [4] Airmail Catalogue: Canada and Newfoundland , by O.W.R. Smith, Gordon one special cover, prepared for National Air Mail Week in 1938. Crouch and Fred Jarrett. (Marks Stamp Co., Toronto, 1930.) Postmaster General Farley decided to commemorate the 20th [5] “The First F.A.M. Routes, 1920-28” by R.E.G. Davies, Airpost anniversary of airmail service with a week-long celebration. Journal , March 1984. Each town across the nation was invited to create its own cachet, Correction to May 2015 Article a commemorative design or slogan that would be printed on the PAGE 298 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 299 envelopes to be mailed on May 19, 1938, the highlight of the cel - ebration. The tiny post office at the university in South Bend, Indiana, honored the “First Glider Experiments at Notre Dame/ Professor Albert F. Zahm/ May 1888.” For many years I puz - zled what these “first” glider experiments were. Now I have an answer and I would like to share it with you. Albert F. Zahm, at the time a graduate student at Notre Dame University, was interested in flying. He read a paper before the Notre

APJ Book Review Dame Scientific Association on “Flying Machines” on November 11, 1882, which was subsequently published in four consecutive issues of the Notre Dame Scholastic , the school’s weekly publication. Zahm provides some information on this glider in the second part of his paper: What could be more amusing and interesting than to see a number of our students sailing to and fro above the College grounds, or elsewhere, in beau - AAMS captain Stephen Reinhard, right, receiving the Pillage Tro - tiful, well formed, controllable machines of this kind? phy from RPSL president Chris King. . . . We will next consider the form and dimensions of such a machine to utilize the energy of the March winds. I would suggest the following method of con - As a diversion the rider once was mounted on a big fish, with pedals to struction. Fasten together the large ends of four fish poles at right angles, such make the tail wag for propulsion; again on a huge bird with two long black as form the “sticks” of a kite. The whole could be strengthened by cording and wings which, beating up and down, drove the suspended weight as if in real bracing. Now, to the center attach a handle perpendicularly, like an umbrella flight, round and round the museum by lamp light. Brother Bernard, coming handle; also from the center suspend four strong cords, to which can be fastened, suddenly on this scene was greatly impressed and reported the ‘flight’ as a mar - a platform for the manager to stand upon, just beneath the handle. This done, velous demonstration. the machine is ready for use. The essential facts to be observed are about the fol - Reverting to Brother Bernard, one noted next day some concern on his lowing: (1) The surface should be large enough to enable one to descend slowly; kindly face. He stroked his brown beard thoughtfully. During his morning (2) The machine should always move rapidly never drifting with the wind; (3) It patrol as janitor he had found on the museum wall a black footprint. Only the can not be used in still air. . . devil could walk there, of course, by current demon lore. Hence what he had seen This article series did not give sufficient information to confirm last night, flapping through the dark with long black wings, must have been this flying activity in 1888. So I looked further. In 1942, Albert Zahm Satan seeking someone to devour. He had not noticed George put out his foot to wrote up his contributions to aeronautics as part of the “Pioneers in save bumping the wall in his rapid bank round through the air. Aeronautics” series and provided further details: A few pages later, Zahm discussed his next flying activity. These . . . From the ceiling of the museum he suspended with a fifty-foot rope a flying glider flights are documented on a painting that is hanging in the lobby machine operated by foot-power. On this his shop assistant, George Archam - of the Aeronautics Department. This appears to match the description of bault, made flights about the museum to test the merits of various kinds of pro - the cachet: pellers. . . . A man-carrying glider was built in the latter eighties, and used for short flights at night on the Senior Campus. It was a rectangular sail with strong par - SHARE AEROPHILATELY allel bars joining the front and rear spars. To the rear extensions of these bars

PAGE 300 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 301 various types of tail could be attached for trial. The operator, with the bars under Review by Ken Sanford his armpits, would run forward, leap from a long bench, and glide to the ground. Another launching device was a long horizontal beam jutting from the The Middle East occupied a strategic location in the early devel - roof of Science Hall. A rope attached by a release hook to the glider passed over a opment of air transport. The need to carry mail quickly and efficiently pulley in the beam end and down to a power windlass in the basement. One man was a major incentive in the development of the air services from Europe worked the windlass, another dropped with the glider. . . to the Middle East, India and beyond. This is the answer of the “First Glider Experiments” by Albert While the book builds upon and draws together the work of Zahm, using the zip-line principal to be “airborne.” But I do not think other authors, research in the Royal Mail Archive, the UK National this is “glider flying” as we know it today but it was quite an accom - Archives and elsewhere has produced much previously unpublished plishment in the 1880s. information, especially on the airmails of the early long distance pioneer Airmails Across the Middle East – 1918 - 1930 by Laurence Kimpton. flights, the RAF flights between Baghdad and Cairo in 1919, the RAF 328 pages, soft cover, A4 format, color, 460-plus illustrations. Published Cairo-Baghdad service and the development of the services of Imperial in May 2015 by the author, 20, Greytree Crescent, Dorridge, Solihull, B93 Airways. 8SL, United Kingdom. UK£45 (approximately US$68) plus postage. Pay - All covers and illustrations are shown in full color, which greatly ment by £ sterling check or by Paypal (outside UK only, no extra charge) enhances the book. Lots of detail is included for each flight, accompanied to: [email protected] by useful charts, maps and bibliographic references. Various appendices include a “Listing of Pioneer Flights, 1922-1930,” “The Pilot’s Handbook Future AAMS Meeting Sites of the Cairo-Baghdad Route,” a select bibliography and an index. The book should be of interest to collectors of the airmails and 2016 World Exhibition* postal history of the Middle East (in particular, Iraq, Egypt and Persia) and the countries of Europe and Asia involved in the development of air - New York, New York May 28 - June 4, 2016 mail services across the Middle East.

CHICAGOPEX Americans Win Another Pillage Trophy Itasca, Illinois November 19-21, 2016 Bill Trower BAMS Publicity Manager

Philatelic Show The biannual Pillage Trophy competition between the American Boxborough, Massachusetts May 5-7, 2017 Air Mail Society (AAMS) and the British Air Mail Society (BAMS) was held May 12 in England. BAMS hosted the event at the Royal Philatelic Society, London under the sponsorship of Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions WESTPEX and the Association of British Philatelic Societies (ABPS). San Francisco, California April 27-29, 2018 This was the fifth such competition and the American Air Mail Society were declared the winners. BAMS made a good showing as only two points separated the teams. The competition consisted of 10 frames St. Louis Stamp Expo each of 16 sheets of aerophilatelic material. St. Louis, Missouri March 30 - April 1, 2019 The teams were made up of members of the respective societies: AAMS: Stephen Reinhard (Capt.) U.S.A. Allen Klein U.S.A.

PAGE 302 AIRPOST JOURNAL JUNE 2015 PAGE 303 Pradip Jain India Derrick Pillage U.K. Dominique Petit France AAMS Membership Report

BAMS: Jacques Bot Netherlands AAMS Aerophilatelic Research Award Jeffrey Booth U.K. A major award for outstanding aerophilatelic research. This award rec - Gérard Collot France ognizes outstanding achievements in aerophilatelic research that serve as defini - Martyn Cusworth U.K. tive or foundation works in aerophilately. Recognized research may be either John Crowe U.K. original research bringing significant new facts or conclusions to light or sec - Peter Lister served as BAMS captain but did not enter the com - ondary research bringing multiple resources together into comprehensive works petition. of significant importance to aerophilatelists, as evidenced by articles, mono - The judges were graphs, books, catalogues or other publications and exhibits. Ray Todd and Ross Wood (Australia), who stated that "the standard was The award is international in scope and is not restricted to members of indeed extremely high." AAMS. David Coogle and Larry Gibson, representatives of Daniel F. 2015 Peter Wingent United Kingdom Kelleher Auctions, presented medals to the teams. The new "Pillage Tro - phy" (smaller in size, but not in stature) was presented to winning cap - Walter J. Conrath Memorial Award tain Stephen Reinhard by Chris King, President of the Royal Philatelic Presented in honor of Walter J. Conrath, who contributed unselfishly to Society, London. the growth and welfare of the American Air Mail Society. The American Air Mail Society hosts the 2017 matchup in Sara - The Walter J. Conrath Memorial Award is for outstanding service to sota, Florida, in February during Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition. the American Air Mail Society. The award recognizes distinguished and extend - ed service to the Society, evidenced by a prominent role in the Society leadership Major AAMS Awards for 2015 and direction, activities serving to increase membership and participation, con - The following major AAMS awards were announced at the annual convention, held in conjunction with NAPEX, June 5-7. Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame The Airpost Journal is To honor men and women who have contributed significantly to the accumulation of aerophilatelic knowledge, to interest and participation in aerophilately, or rendered outstanding service to national or international orga - YOUR magazine. nized aerophilately. The names of those honored are inscribed on the Aerophilat - elic Hall of Fame plaque at the headquarters of the American Philatelic Society We welcome letters to the editor, book reviews, in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. announcements of aerophilatelic events and articles . . . 2015 Chris Hargreaves Canada lots and lots of articles. YOU are the We have a byline waiting for you! American Air Mail Society’s most important asset. Take an active role in the AAMS. PAGE 304 AIRPOST JOURNAL JULY 2015 PAGE 305 American American Air Mail Society Air Mail Society Membership and Subscriptions Annual membership dues for new members, which includes a subscrip - Dedicated to the research, study, documentation and tion to the Airpost Journal is $30 domestic, $40 Canada, $50 Mexico and preservation of aerophilately worldwide through education, $60 worldwide. study, research and services. All foreign dues include first-class airmail shipment.

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