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AAIIRRPPOOSSTT JJOOUURRNNAALL The Official Publication of the American Air Mail Society December 2014 Volume 85, No. 12 Whole No. 1014 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 1930 US C13 - C15 set of card and 2 covers w/matched wide bottom plate numbers. VF condition . $1,350.00 1938 (July 10) Howard Hughes’ Round-the-World Flight cover. This record-breaking flight started at Floyd Bennett Field, Long Island, New York, then landed in France where additional postage was added and postmarked July 11.. $1,250.00 Kenya / Germany 1934 South America catapult. Tape stains on back . $750.00 Latvia / Germany / Guatemala 1934 catapult . Europa $2,000.00 Liechtenstein 1932 catapult to Bahamas, (K131 LN) . Europa $900.00 Malta 1933 Chicago flight to U.S. $750.00 Hungary Chicago Flight sent to Brazil S.238Aa . $1,250.00 Mauritania 1934 3rd South America Flight sent to Argentina S.254Ba . $1,850 Monaco Chicago Flight sent to Brazil S.238Aa . $4,250.00 Nicaragua US 1933 Chicago Flight with dual franking. Scott C18 S.245B . $1,200.00 Poland 1932 8th South America Flight sent to Brazil S.189B . $650.00 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com DECEMBER 2014 PAGE 485 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal — ARTICLES — First Flight Around the World in a Flying Boat ............................................ 495 Bob Dille May 15, 1918 William T. Robey Cover: A Reunion ..................................... 500 Joe Kirker Wartime Trans-Atlantic Flights Can be Complicated ................................... 503 John Wilson Origin of the FAM 18 ‘Lati-Substitute’ Route .............................................. 516 Ken Lawrence An Air Mail Christmas Greeting ................................................................... 522 — COLUMNS and FEATURES — Canadian Air Mail Notes ............................................................................... 508 Letters to the Editor ....................................................................................... 490 President’s Message ...................................................................................... 493 Treasure Hunting for CAM Covers ............................................................... 475 — DEPARTMENTS – APJ Ads ......................................................................................................... 525 Membership Report ....................................................................................... 528 Editor and Advertising Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 vcanfi[email protected] Staff Writers and Columnists Joe Kirker Alan Warren Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer Copyright 2014 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to American Air Mail Society, 1190 S. Grape St., Denver CO 80246-3229. Domestic subscription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. PAGE 486 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2014 PAGE 487 H.G.I Stamp Co. ZEPPELIN, DO-X & CATAPULT FLIGHT Specialists since 1958. Colateral Print. Matter post-crd, metered franking, Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! N57 GERMANY advertising, in English. The Romanoff Caviar flight to the Chicago World 1933 GRAF ZEPPELIN CENTURY OF PROGRESS EXH. FLT U.S. 2430 cov. AKRON-Frhfn featuring a more than attractive Exhibition frm Hamburg via Berlin, Frhfn, Pernambuco, Rio, Pernambu - N46 co, Miami to Chicago: 12000 Mi. through the air. ........................... franking Sctt 730a &731a both in blk of fr. 733, & C18, addr. to Riga, $240.00 238E cov ex. Baile A.C. via Berlin-Frhfn-PERNSMBUCO! Latvia & depicting “T” as well as marking (red) postage due/Riga, as N58 IRELAND All transit & arriv. pmks. Both flt cachets. ONLY 9 FLOWN! ... well as 8 diff. Exhin. vignette on back. Final destination: LATVIA w. $3,250.00 238 1-1/2d sta. crd & Sctt 135pr. 143 ex Valleta via Milano- Riga arriv & postage due marking. GREEN Frhfn transit/arrival mark. N59 MALTA .................................................................................................... Frhfn-PERNAMBUCO. Pristine & rare! ........................................ $1,250.00 $3,750.00 242A/spec. cover MIAMI-AKRON: only 2214 items flown! 240SV regist. cov. C79, C80 (2), etc. franking, ex Asun - N47 U.S. N60 PARAGUAY Normal franking, Miami mash. pmk. Akron handstamp. Addit. blue cion, addr. to Madrid/Spain & DROPPED OVER SEVILLE. Allegedly Munn printed “Willkommen Graf Zeppelin” cach. on back ......... less than 10 pcs of mail were dropped over Seville, originating in $350.00 2418/VAR/UNL. cov. ex NY (hand-stamp) OCT. 2ND with Paraguay! ........................................................................................... N48 U.S. $1,250.00 normal colorful franking via FRHFN via Only 1931 flwn. ....... 238E unusual registered LENINGRAD dispatch w. pmk of RECIFE!!! N61 RUSSIA ....................................................................................................... Lenengrad-Berlin (connecting) flt on C15, C19, addressed to Montevideo $425.00 FLIGHT LOG from Goodyear Airport The Century of & featuring an additional URUGUAY ZEPP. RETURN FLT CACHET. All N49 U.S. transit & arrival backstamps markings incl. Berlin. .................... Progress, Chicago, multi-page, Sat. Aug. 19, 1933, completed w. impres - $3,000.00 238 specially printed crd for this flt to Chicago with fabulous sions of Flight & PILOTS signature ................................................... N62 SAAR $345.00 airmail-franking. MI. 159 & 159II-variety! ..................................... 2428/spec. cov. MIAMI - Chicago (C.o.P. mash. arriv. pmk), $1,950.00 N50 U.S. 238E registered ex Vienna, via connecting flight BERLIN, over-franked w. BLK OF FOUR C8 (over-franked) ........................ N63 AUSTRIA $325.00 to CHICAGO, franking C28, C29! ONLY 44 FLOWN! .................. 2438/spec. cov. AKRON - AKRON (RND FLT!) Only 1993 $575.00 N51 U.S. 238 card ex Brussels to CHICAGO, via Frhfn, air-mail flown!! Very attractive franking: 622pr, 707 blk of 6, 733 two prs. N64 BELGIUM $435.00 franking C2, C3, C4 (2) .......................................................................... 239A-COMBINATION “VARIG” - “CONDOR” - “ZEP - 480.00 N52 BRAZIL 239Ee add registr. cov. at “FEIRA DE ÁMOSTRAS” Exhib., PELIN” & FFLT cov. GREEN Zepp flt. cachet, RIO GRANDE OO SUL- N65 BRAZIL PORTO ALEGRE - RIO - AKRON! Mix. frank w. “VARIG” VARIG issue Rio, to Frhfn/Berlin, red Zepp. flt. cach in combination with viol. 239Eb per Michel V28t, V30/31 ..................................................................... cachet! Franking incl. Zpp. C30, addr to CONDOR DSYNDICATE, w. $675.00 Condor-Zeppelin label. ......................................................................... 2398/green commercial cov. ex. PORTO ALEGRE, R.G. d. 375.00 N53 BRAZIL 238E regist. cov. via BERLIN-Frhfn to RECIFE, frank. S., featuringC29pair, etc. addressed to “IBERIA CIA AEREA TRANS - N66 GIBRALTAR Sctt 76, 82, 96 (2), 97/99 .................................................................... PORTES S.A. MADRID. DROP SEVILLE. Sieg. UNKNOWN ....... $1,400.00 $575.00 238 regist. crd Budpst via Frhfn to CHICAGO, with 239Eb in combin. w. 239Ared, regist. cov. “Fiera de N67 HUNGARY N54 BRAZIL Hungarian Zeppelin Utjan (viol.) cachet, scarce C34!! franking. .. Amostres” (Exhib.) RIO. to AKRON, red flt. cach. in combination with $850.00 viol. 239Eb cachets on Sctt 375 ( ) 379 (2)m 380 & C31 ................... 238Aa cov. ex Romanshorn via Frhfn to PER - $525.00 N68 SWITZERLAND 239E regist. crd Zappot via Berlin-Frhfn-AKRON! fine N55 DANZIG franking C30, 196, pristine condit. ................................................. $2,475.00 Phone/FAX: (602) 375-8949 P.O. Box 47728 Phoenix AZ 85068-7728 email: [email protected] Payment by check or money order PAGE 488 AIRPOST JOURNAL DECEMBER 2014 PAGE 489 interest and filled many shoeboxes with hundreds of old covers. A decade or so ago I joined the AAMS for one simple reason: it provides the only “official publication” for collectors like me. Letters to Like many other members, I am troubled by the steady decline in membership and with it, the modest revenue necessary to sustain our the Editor organization. The is really the only outreach and mar - Airpost Journal keting vehicle we have to engage existing members and attract new ones. TAT Question Answered Yet, too often, it seems to this biased reader, the articles don’t appeal to I would like to reply to Bob Baltzell's question, in the October the broadest audience: people in the United States, where airmail began issue of (page 417), about his TAT cover. Airpost Journal and grew into an exciting chapter of our nation’s history. I would TAT (Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc.) was part of a cross- assume, too, that the majority of our remaining members live in the U.S., country passenger service. Passengers would board a Pennsylvania Rail - as do the largest pool of potential members. Here, too, is the best geo - road train in New York City in the evening, travel all night and