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Airpost Journal • December THE AIRPOST JOURNAL -·~ DECEMBER 1 9 3 5 * 1936 Edition 450 Pages I . 1400 Illustrations Every Air Stamp Properly Priced Essential for Collector &- Dealer Cloth Bouncl ·s1.so Deluxe -- 1.50 Most Complete Stock of AIR MAIL STAMPS in the World EFFIOENT NEW ISSUE SERVICE Lowest Possiltle Prices Nicolas Sanabria, Inc. 17 East 42nd Street • New York City CABLE ADDRESS: NICSAN, NEW YORK • FffiST FLIGHT Trans-Pacific cover from San Francisco to Honolulu. F~ 'ERANS.PA~C · AIR MAIL ~ ~J:'aAt.lc1~co To-; · U.0.,.oLUUl, i.\1111411 -" P.Gf.Gf. ·Gkina Clipper.. Compl:efu [Jtrst Trans-Paeifie Flight F.A.M. 14 CoverinK 8,000 Miles Inaugur­ heartfelt congratulrations of an air­ ated November 22nd; Returns minded sail9r. Even at this distance to Alameda December 6th I thrill to the wonder ol_!! all. They tell me that the inauguration ~ OMPLETING her initial round trip of the trans-Pacific sky mail also .__, flight to Manila. Philippine Islands, celebrates the lOOth anniversary of Pan American Airways' China Clipper the arri~l of the first clipper ship arrived at Alamedi3., California, Friday, in San Francisco. The years between December 6, at 10:36 A.M. Pacific Stan­ the two events mark a century of dard Time, seven hours ahead of sched­ progress that is without parallel, and ule. The second regular flight, made by it is our just pride that America the Philippine Clipper, left the San Fran­ and Americans have played no minor cisco air harbor the same day. part in the blazing of new trails. The inaugunal flight, which left the There can be no higher hope than California shores on the afternoon of that this heritage of courage. daring, November 22. came as the climax of sev­ initiative and enterprise will be con­ eral years of aggressive engineering and served and intensified." marked the official beginning of a new In his address the Postmaster General era in trans-oceanic scheduled aerhl 'nav­ also indicated that Jt is planned to fur· igation. At the inauguration ceremonies ther improve the air mail services in the Postmaster General James A. Farley United States and Alaska and felt con­ quoted the followmg letter from Presi­ fident that within a yeal'" or eighteen dent Franklin D. Roosevelt: months there would be a regularly oper­ "Please convey to the people of the ated trans-Atlantic service from the Pacific Coast the deep interest and United States to Europe. e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE e AME~AN Am MAIL SOCIETY T~E AIRPOST JOURNAL • DECEMBER. 1935. VOL. VII. NO. 3 e ISSUE fl8 ~ lOc PER COPY. [ 3 J THE AIRPOST JOURNAL 10,910 first-day covers which were mailed out from the Wiashington city post Master of Air Giant office. According to reports received from member Julius W. Hulff the first-day sale of trans-Pacific air mail stamps at San Francisco, exclusive of those used for trans-Pacific' flight covers. was 15,000. Mail Load Heavy Because of "the fact tl:nt the mail load of the China Clipper for the first west­ bound flight weighed almost one ton, two crew members who were scheduled to make the flight were forced to re­ main at Alameda. According to Mr. Hulff the breakdown of mail addressed to the various points was as follows: Total number dispatched ............ 110,000 S.•n Francisco-Hawaii (ncluding covers addressed to Midway and Wake Islands) ........................ 46,200 San Francisco-Guam ........................ 19,800 San FranCisco-Manila ...................... 44,000 The amount of the total postage receipts for the westward flight was recorded at ........................$51,603 .50 The net profit' of the first west\11\ard flight for the government was estimated at about $47,000. It is understood that three ships iare being placed in this trans-Pacific service and a plane with mail will arrive and another depart every fortnight. The time saved in this new service is approximately four dJ•ys between California and Hawaii HONOLULU A most impres· and two weeks between California and s1ve reception was tendered Capt. Manila. Future plans, which will prob­ Edwin Musick, master of the huge ably be adopted Into a schedule within China Clipper, when he put the giant a year, provide for the cutting of ap­ proximately two days from the present aumail craft down here on the his· schedule. tory making ·furst flight from the U . S. to the Far East. Aero-Philatelic Markings Stamp Sale Sets Record The first of the inaugural flight covers / returned to this country were those ad­ The Post Office Department announced dressed to Hawaii on the westbound ' that first d!ay sales of the new 25-cent flight, one of which is illustrated here­ trans-Pacific Air Mail postage stamp, with. The covers are postmarked at which was placed on sale at the San SanFrancisco November 22, 1:00 P.M. and Francisco, Californila and Washington, b ?ckstamped at Honolulu, November 23. D. C., post offices on November 22 in 11 :oo A.M. The cachet showing the connection with the inauguration of the Chin,a Clpper in flight over a clipper ship tmns-Paciflc Air Mail Service. totalled is applied in green. $69,432.00, a new first-day sales record. Mail from all inaugural points of the eastbound flight was received at San This figure represents ,a sale of $55,- Francisco and backstamped December 6, 000.00 (220,000 stamps) at the San Fran­ 12:30 P.M., being forwarded to other cisco post office; $11 ,670.00 (46,680 stamps) points throughout the country by the at the Philatelic Agency of the Post regular ~ir mail routes. The Honolulu Office Department in Washington and covers are postmarked December 5, 2 :00 $2,762 (11,048 stamps) at the Washington, P . M., with same design cachet applied D. C. post office. Tlie San Francisco in magenta. The Guam covers bear the sale includes fifty-eight pouches weigh­ cancellation of December 3. 6 :00 A.M.. ing 1,837 pounds or 110,000 covers, which and usual cachet applied in green. were aboard the China Clipper as it roared out over San Francisco Ba,y on Philippines Overprint Stamps the ·first-leg of the inaugbral flight of The covers dispatched from Manila, the trans-Pacific Air Mail Service. Philippine Islands bear the cancelation The Washington. D. C. sales represent of December 2 and a black rectangular [ 4 l Walter J. Conrath. the .l1rpoat Jourilal, l.lbion, Pa. VU Konol'alu aud i.uam • UNOFFICIAL EXPERIMENTAL cover of the last trans-Pacific pioneering flights. This P.A.A. souvenir was carried by the Clipper on the first exten­ sion t.o and frnm Guam. map cachet mainland of Asia, the Pacific tioli was begun and continued afterwards Ocean and North America, with the route under the auspices of the German Rocket of the Clipper Ship inscribed. Society of which Mr. Ley was Vice­ president. These experiments comprised On the covers we have received to-date of more than 500 ground tests and 97 ac­ only two values of the stamps specially tual rocket flights, none of which ever overprinted for the flight have been carried any mail as they were purely seen. These have been overprinted witn for scientific purposes. All rockets were gold ink on the early 1935 issue: lOc constructed for liquid fuels and were (#387 rose carmine (Ft. Santiago) ano brought back by parachute. These ex­ 30c (#392) orange red (Blood Compaot). periments perfected the rocket motor The overprint reads: sufficiently so that it is now ready for P. l. - U. S. its first practical application. INITIAL FLIGHT Mr. Ley has written a great number (line illustration · of Clipper) of books on rocket science and there are December - 1935 today five books on the market written by Mr. Ley. These are not pamphlets and some of these books have as many GERMAN ROCKET INVENTOR IS as 340 pages. Other books are now in ENGINEF.R FOR F. W. KF.SSLER'S their second edition. He is now writing ROCKET AIRPLANE FLIGHT a two volumn book with over 400 pages on the history of rockets. All these Mr. Willy Ley. who• is the inventor )of books are written In ' German. Aside the rocket and engineer for F . W. Kess­ from this he is now writing the first ler's forthcoming experimental - rocket scientific book in the English language airplane flight between Greenwoo!Y Lake, which will be ready to be published N.Y. and Hewitt, N.J.. is recognized as shortly. • one of the most experienced rocket de­ He is an honorary member of the signers in the ..world. American Rocket Society, Cleveland Mr. Ley was born in Berlin, Germany, Rocket Society, :ijritish Interplanetary , attended high scnool in Berlin ana Society, Member of the Board of Di­ Koenigsberg, Pr. When in 1927 the rectors of the Austrian Rocket Society, German Rocket Society was founded, Mr. Vice-president of the German Rocket Ley became one of its officers. He wrote Society, and others. at this time, two t>ooks on rocketry, one Mr. Ley is or has been associate editor of which inspired the German authocess, of the following scientfic publications: Thea von Harbou to write her novel Aircraft Engineering (British), L'Aero­ "The Girl in the Moon" which was m!lde phile (France), Di e Rakote (German), into a moving picture by the U.F.A. Astronautics (U.S.A.), Space (U.S.A.). Films, Inc. Prof. Herman Oberth and Mr. Ley supervised the photography of Mr. Ley is today the most advanced this film to insure scientific exactness. expert on rocket science, both theoretical At this time actual rocket experimenta• as well as practical.
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