Februa ry, 1963 Volume 34, Number 5 The American Air Mail Society A Non-Profit Corporation Incorporated 1944 Organized 1923 Under the Laws of Ohio
PRESIDENT Dr. James J. Matejka, Jr. Official Publication of the LaSalle Hotel, Chicago, Illinois AMERICAN Am MAIL SOCIETY SECRETARY Ruth T. Smith Vol. 34, Number 5 Whole Number 393 102 Arbor Road Riverton, N. J. TREASURER John J. Smith 102 Arbor Road Riverton, N. J. Contents for February, 1963 VICE-PRESIDENTS Foreign Pioneer Airpost Flights Joseph L. Eisendrath Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. 1904-14 105 Herman Kleinert Lester S. Manning C.A.M. Cover Notes 110 EDITORS - Other Publications L. B. Gatchell The Airship and the Airplane 112 Geo. D. Kingdom ATTORNEY 1963 Convention Flash 113 George D. Kingdom Official Section ...... 114 SALES MANAGER Herman Kleinert Ecuador Pioneer Flight Cards, 215 Virginia Ave. Fullerton, Pa. October 8, 1913 ...... 118 DffiECTOR OF FOREIGN RELATIONS The Philatelic Story of Flight . 119 Dr. Max Kronstein AUCTION MANAGER Charles A. Lindbergh .... 122 Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr. ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE South Africans Airmails 127 Paul Bugg 3724 Old York Rd. The Airmail Flights of Haiti 132 Baltimore 18, Md. A. P. J. Ads ...... Inside Back Cover TRANSLATION SERVICE Roland Kohl Augusta-Victoria Str. 4 EDITOR Wiesbaden, West Germany Joseph L. Eisendraih AUDITOR 350 No. Deere Park Drive, Highland park, Ill. Stuart .T. Malkin ASSISTANT EDITORS DIRECTORS Robert W. Murch Alton J. Blank, Herbert Brand Ernest A. Kehr L. B. Gatchell ner, Paul Bugg, Robert E. Har ing, Dr. Max Kronstein, George DEPARTMENT AND ASSOCIATE EDITORS L. Lee, Narcisse Pelletier, Horace R. Lee Black, N. Pelletier, Florence L. Kleinert. D. Westbrooks. Dr. Max Kronstein, Richard L. Singley, William MEMBERSHIP DUES - $4.00 R. Ware, .lames Wotherspoon, John Watson, William T. Wynn, Frank Blumenthal, Samuel per year S. Goldsticker, Jr., J. S. Langabeer. Include subscription to The AIRPOST JOURNAL. Appli Published monthly at Albion, Erie Co., Pa., U.S.A. cants must furnish two refer Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office ences, philatelic preferred. At at Albion, Pa., February 10, 1932, under least one must reside in Appli the Act of March 3, 1879. <:'ant's home town. Applicants The AIRPOST JOURNAL is not conducted for under 21 :vears must be guar profit. The Editor and all others serve without teed by Parent or Guardian. <:'ompens3tion. Receipts from advertising, sub Membership may be terminated scriptions and contributions are applied to the by the Society in accordance betterment of the magazine and the promotion with its B:v-Laws. of aero-philately. Correspondence concerning sub scriptions. back numbers and The Editor and Officers of The American Air bound volumes. address changes Mail Society assume no responsibility for the and other matters and all re accuracy of statements made by contributors. mittances should be sent to the Every effort is made to insure correctness of Treasurer. All general com all articles. munications and advertising Subscription Rates: $4.00 per year, 35c per copy. should be sent to the Editor. Advertising Rate Card available from the Editor. Foreign Pioneer Airpost Flights 1909-1914 C. Special Postal Cancellations of the Pioneer Period VII. THE FIRST AIRPOST FLIGHT IN ALLAHABAD, INDIA, ON FEB.18, 1911 By Dr. Max Kronstein
Early in 1961 India commemorated the• fiftieth anniversary of the first aerial post from the United Provinces Exhibition in Allahabad, India on February 18, 1911. Aerophilatelists of the world joined in this celebration as the Golden Jubilee of the first official air mail transportation and of the first official postal air mail cancellation in the world. A study of the events of the period shows that this flight of the French aviator Henri Pequet was in no way an exceptional event in the course of aeronautical demonstration flights in India that year. There were other European aviators making flights from other Indian Exhibition Grounds around the same time. But what made this particular flight an exceptional historical event was the transportation of an aeroplane post for the first time. To give a background to this development one notes demonstration flights in February 1911 by Baron de Caters, one of the aviators of the International Aviation Exhibition ILA in Frankfurt, Germany in 1909. He went from the Mysore Exhibition Grounds on February 14, to Rangoon, to make aerial flights at Secunderabad at an aviation exhibition. He made five flights-two with passengers (Mr. Stubbs of the Bank of Bengal and Captain Maxwell of the Second Infantry Brigade) the same weekend that the Pequet airmail flight took place from the Allahabad Exhibition. Jules Tyck, also on the same day made demonstration flights in Madras. There the morning weather conditions were more favorable. He changed his announced demonstration hours to 6:30 p.m. to 8 a.m .. Governor and Lady Lawley turned out early to see his successful flights over the Bench and Mount Road and over George Town at Madras. The exceptional feature of the Allahabad flight of Mr. Pequet was an arrange ment by the British Captain (later Sir) Walter Windham with the Postmaster General of the United Provinces, Sir Geoffrey Clarke, to provide for mail to be officially accepted and to use a special postal cancellation on such mail. This was announced in the Calcutta "Bengalee" of February 16 in a despatch from Allaha bad, dated February 15, as follows: "THE U.P. EXHIBITION: Mail carried in Biplane: The Exhibition Committee has decided to offer to send a postcard bearing a picture of the biplane in which the mail is to be carried, signed by Mr. H. Pequet, the aviator in charge, and stamped with a special aerial postmark to any address which is sent to the Chaplain of the Holy Trinity Church, Allahabad, not later than 18th February for the sum of one rupee, payable to him in cash or by money order. "The die, with which the stamps are to be impressed, will be destroyed on the day following the carriage of the first aerial mail. It is intended-wind and weather permitting - to despatch letters by aeroplane at 4:30 p.m. on the 20th instant from the Polo Grounds of the U.P. Exhibition and from there the plane will go to Naini, crossing the Jumria river and descend near the Jail, where the letters will be handed over to the Post Office officials who will despatch them to their destinations." It is evident from this announcement that the post flight had been scheduled for February 20, but it would take place on February 18 and that two kinds of mail were to be carried: An autographed special pictorial card under the auspices THE AIRPOST J"OURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 l 05 of the Holy Trinity Church in Allahabad at the price of one rupee per card and a more general acceptance of aerial letters and postcards from the public. We illustrate this special postcard. The British D. Field's Priced Catalogue of Air Mail Stamps and Airposts of the World, Second Edition, 1934, lists the number of these flown cards as 40 and "probably n.ot more than 12 existing today." However, news reports of Allahabad, Feb. 19, indicate that the aviator himself signed at least 400 postcards and that all the proceeds went to the funds of the Oxford and Cambridge Hostel. The total nw11ber of letters and postcards flown by him is reported as approx imately 6500 items. A regular post office was set up on the exhibition grounds at this "United Provinces Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition at Allahabad" although the mail carried by Pequet was not handled by this office. In order to restrict the weight and space and to limit the size and nwnber of letters, a six annas surcharge was established. Each item had to be posted by handing it over to a postal official in Mr. Pequet's tent at the airfield. The extra proceeds were then donated to the Oxford and Cambridge Hostel in Allahabad, such as the funds collected from the autographed special cards, for which a one rupee charge had been made. It was possible to despatch registered letters by the aerial mail and our illustration shows sl!lch a cover with the special cancellation of the "FIRST AERIAL POST 1911-U.P. EXHIBITION ALLAHAB.AiD" (The postage stamps are here on the reverse side, as was at that time often the case on registered mail, but these stamps also show the cancellation of the aerial post). This special postmark had been prepared at the Postal Works in Aligarh and was to be destroyed on the day after the flight.
A short five mile goal was set for the aerial postal transportation and was based on safety and convenience, not because the plane would not have been able to fly a longer distance. The pilot previously had made many flights from the Exhibition Grounds which by Feb. 6, 1911 totaled already close to 400 miles, of which 250 \:o.1ere over the Ganges and Jamuna rivers, at an average altitude of 1000 feet and without accident. 106 THE AIRPOST J OURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 The pos tal flight took place on February 18, at 5:30 p.m. in the presence of several thousand spectators. The plane landed at Naini 13 minutes later and r turned from there to the exhibition grounds after another 30 minute interval. The Indian people were interested in this new aviation because of an old legend. According to the Sacred Vedas the end of things on earth would take place a thousa11d years after a man came flying. Now planes were flying over quite distant parts of the country. As Bangalore, where the special poster in Urdu language (shown in the photo) referred to this old legend. This poster is in the collection of the Royal Aero Club in London. According to the Field Catalogue there are a few cards flown at an aerial exhibition in Calcutta on January 8, 1913. This author has never seen this card. Research studies by contemporary sources indicate that there were public flights by two French aviators, Marc Pourpe-best known for his airmail flight between Cairo and Khartoum, Egypt, on February 3, 1914 - using a one-seated Bleriot monoplane "La Curieuse," and V. Verminck in a two-seated Bleriot plane "RAJAH". They made public flights over the Calcutta Race Course on January 5, 1913 and again on January 8. There were big advertisements for these events and a "seething mass of humanity" was on the field, with a comparatively small attendance of European spectators. According to the Calcutta "Bengalee" each aviator made a few flights circling the Race Course several times, but it was evidently nothing spectacular as the financial results were so poor, that the local Lipton Ltd. published an appeal for the establishment of price competitions for the two aviators in order to meet their expenses. None of the advertisements or the reports gives any indication of aerial flight cards. According to the English catalogue these were special cards inscribed "Great Aerial Exhibition - 8th January 1913 - Messr. G. Verminck and M. Pourpe - A Souvenir from 20,000 feet - above Calcutta - Price Re. l." One is quite surprised at the indication that one of these aviators actually reached an altitude of 20,000 feet. According to the local paper the two flyers were enroute to Australia, where they expected to arrive in April to organize army aviation there. If they actually did fly there at that time, no indication of flown covers is given in the H. N. Eustis Australian Air Mail Catalogue.
THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 107 There were no further airmail events in India until after the First World War, when a special cachet was applied to 43 letters and cards that arrived from Cairo by air in Karachi, as described in the October, 1961 issue of the Airpost Journal. There might be additional flights be found with some form of aerophilatelic records from other areas of the Asiatic world. When the Russian aviator, Kousminski, in a French Bleriot plane with Gnome motor, made a demonstration flight in Tauris, Persia, in November, 1913, the contemporary reports pointed out, this might have been the first airplane flight in Persia, but they also pointed out that the same aviator had already made about 150 other flights in Siberia, Man churia, China, Indo-China, Siam (Thailand) and elsewhere. No records have been reported from these events, as yet. .~~.~~~~~I His Excellency the Governor of Bengal. I They have PROVED they can FLY. You MUST all come. Tbis is your LAST chance of seeing them. I C'n WEDNESDAY, the 8tL. January I At t~~ig~!~~ 4 ~~~3~SE Vol Pl1ning, Fancy Flying, Starting Competition. Rs.Ai. II First Graud Staud . • !i 0 I l":lecnnd Grand St>ind • • 2 . 0 01n111uls. fndi1rna cmly.. 0 2 I ADMITTAN CE T0 G1oundr._
NEWS - • postmarked at Sioux City at 8 p.m., Oct. Although no major proceedings are 1, 1962 were given a General Delivery before the Board at this time that in backstamp at Sioux Falls on Oct. 2, due volve the expansion of the Trunk Lines, to the late arrival time of this flight at decisions continue to come involving the Sioux Falls. No official cachet or other Local Feeder Lines. These generally markings were used on the mail dispatch consist of removing some of the smaller ed from Sioux City. Postmark and back cities from the Trunk Lines and awarding stamp are essential for identification. them to the Feeder Lines as minor ad For the inaugural flight from Sioux justments are made in the flight pattern Falls, the Postmaster was holding a small of the latter. New cities being given number of collector's covers, thought to air mail service for the first time are be about 25. Although the inaugural generally awarded to the Feeder Lines. flight #782 flown by Capt. J. P. Cole We expect this pattern to continue with departed on schedule from Sioux Falls the growth of our population. at 6:45 a.m., this small amount of mail was not available to the dispatching CHRONICLE - clerk, with the result that the inaugural AM ROUTE #107 - ADDITION OF flight departed Sioux Falls with one MT. VERNON, ILLINOIS. This was pound of business mail, leaving collector the first city to be added to our domestic mail in the post office at Sioux Falls. Air Mail System in 1962, with service This mail was subsequently prepared on Feb. 2, on Segment #3 (St. Louis with postmark of 2 p.m., Oct. 1, 1962 Chicago) of Route #107, is flown by with the intention of dispatching it via Ozark Air Lines. Flight #788 which would have been the Northbound Flight #30 from Mt. second flight out of Sioux Falls. How Vernon was flown by Capt. R. P. Downs ever, this flight was cancelled due to who transported 2872 pcs of mail post the non-arrival of Flight #783 earlier marked at 6 a.m., Feb. 2, backstamped in the day. This mail was then dispatched at Chicago AMF (O'Hare) at 10 a.m., via Flight #782 on Oct. 2, which was same date. The initial Southbound flight the second flight out of Sioux Falls and was made by Capt. Robt. H. Anzer fly as such, has no philatelic significance. ing Flight #31 with 801 philatelic pieces No official cachet or other marking was with 10:30 a.m. postmark from Mt. applied to the one pound of business Vernon and backstamped at St. Louis mail dispatched vfa inaugural Flight AMF at 1 p.m. Official cachet was ap #782 from Sioux Falls on Oct. 1, and plied in green to First Flight covers insofar as we have been able to establish, from Mt. Vernon using usual map-type none of this has been identified or re showing map of Illinois enclosed within covered and it is reasonable to assume a shield. that none will find its way to collectors. AM ROUTE #107 - EXTENSION SIOUX CITY, IOWA TO SIOUX AM ROUTE #76 - EXTENSION FALLS, S. DAKOTA. This extension of PALMDALE-LANCASTER, CALIF., Segment #8 was authorized in the TO INYOKERN. CALIF. In the PACIF decision involving the WYOMING $C SOUTHWEST LOCAL SERVICE SOUTH DAKOTA-CHICAGO SER CASE, Pacific Air Lines was authorized VICE INVESTIGATION. The first sch to expand service by this route. Among eduled flight from Sioux City to Sioux other services which we will chronicle, Falls was #783 of Oct. l, 1962. How the award in this Case involved an ex ever, this was cancelled on account of tension of Route #76 from Palmdale weather with the result that Flight #787 Lancaster to Inyokern inaugurated on scheduled to leave Sioux City at 8:20 May 8, 1962. p.m. became the inaugural flight to Sioux The initial flight from Palmdale- Lan Falls. Approximately 25 philatelic pcs caster to Inyokern was made by Capt. 110 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 Harold R. Fitzsimmons in charge .. of . certitioa this service, no Flight #380. 49 pcs of mail from Palm covers from Los Angeles or dale were postmarked at 7 :30 AM and dispatched to Long Beach on the in 32 pcs from Lancaster at 8 a.m. This augural date. mail was backstamped at Inyokem at The inaugural flight from Long Beach 10 a.m., May 8. Since official cachets was made by Capt. E. H. Clark oper or other markings were not used at ating Flight #754 which handled 6786 Palmdale and Lancaster, postmarks and pcs of mail postmarked at Long Beach backstamps are essential to identification. at 3.30 p.m., June 1. It is understood The inaugural flight from Inyokem was that the bulk of this mail was business made by Capt. Fitzsimmons on Flight mail, with the philatelic dispatch amoun #381 with 1639 covers for collectors. ting to 1700 pcs. This was backstamped This mail bears the Inyokern postmark at Los Angeles AMF at 5:30 p.m., same of 6 a.m., May 8, and was backstamped date. Official cachet was applied in at Los Angeles AMF at 8:30 a.m., same green. date. Official purple cachet was applied AM ROUTE #76 - ADDITION OF to mail from Inyokern. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Service was fur AM ROUTE #76 - ADDITION OF ther extended from Long Beach to San FRESNO, CALIF. Fresno was also given Diego via this route on June 30, 1962. service on this route on May 8, by flights As was the case with Long Beach, no operating between Los Angeles and inbound covers to San Diego are known San Francisco. The inaugural North at this writing due to the fact that Long bound Flight #406 was flown by Capt. Beach did not dispatch to San Diego Wayne A. Voights. 1570 pcs of philatelic on the inaugural date. We are informed mail were postmarked at Fresno at 8 that the only mail received at San a.m. and baQkstamped at San Francisco Diego via the inaugural inbound flight AMF at 10 a.m. The inaugural South was a pouch containing about 50 pcs bound flight was made by Capt. Jack which originated in Reno, Nevada, the E. Gladner in charge of flight #771. only city that dispatched to San Diego. He had 130 pcs of mail postmarked at The inaugural dispatch from San 9 a.m., backstamped at Los Angeles Diego consisted of approximately 1500 AMF at 12:30 p.m., same date. Official pcs of philatelic mail postmarked at 6 blue cachet was used at Fresno. a.m., June 30, and subsequently back AM ROUTE #76 - ADDITION OF stamped "Reno, Nevada p.m.," same RENO, NEVADA. Service on this route date. This mail was dispatched via was effected by an extension from Sac Flight #732 by Capt. E. A. Clark. Of ramento to Reno on June 1, 1962. ficial cachet in black was used at San The initial flight #732 from Sacra ·Diego. mento, made by Capt. Fred K. Merha, carried 78 pcs of philatelic mail, mostly DRINKWATER• DEAD; originating at Sacramento with post Sent "Wrights Flew" Message mark of 10.30 am., June 1, and back stamped at Reno at 3 p.m. The same Alphesus W. "Pop" Drinkwater, 87, crew, as flight #709, made the inaug last survivor of the group intimately ural flight from Reno with 2677 cover's associated with the actual first flight postmarked at 2.30 p.m., June l, back of the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, stamped at Los Angeles AMF at 8 p.m. N. C. on December 17, 1903, died in No official cachet was used at Sacra his sleep early September 24. He had mento and here again, postmarks and been confined to his home for several backstamps are essential for identifi months by cancer. cation. Reno used the usual map-type He was a Coast Guard telegraph cachet in magenta. operator in 1903, and sent out the first AM ROUTE #76 - ADDITION OF of the historic flight: "Success four LONG BEACH, CALIF. This city was flights .. .inform press. Home for Christ also given service by this route on June mas. Orville Wright." l, 1962 by extension from Los Angeles. He is survived by two daughters, his However, due to a restriction in the wife having died in 1952. THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 111 TneAlrSl11p~-ana the Airplane SOME OLD COMMENT ON A THEN RECENT .EVENT Dr. Max Kronstein On August 31, 1962 the last U. S. • be kept an instrument of peace. naval airship flight took place when the Our American pioneer W. Wright point development airship ZPG-2-141 561 arose ed out that the airplane had the great from the Lakehurst. Naval Air Station, advantages of being cheaper in construc N. J. for the last time. The remaining tion and maintance, and did not require U. S. airships or "blimps" are now extensive hangars. It had much greater being scrapped. speed. In all these points the airship was On board on this flight was Vice handicapped severely and its future de Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl, for many pended on the way it would overcome years one of the most efficient promotors these difficulties. But neither the airship of the American airship. He still insists nor the airplane would replace the rail "that airships now being exterminated roads and steamships for the transport does not, in the light of the actual facts, of heavy merchandise and passengers. mean that airships have failed." The Brazilian pioneer M. Santos Du- The fact remains that only three air- mont, who was one of the constructors ships are left, a private airship of the of the successful airships of the period, Goodyear Company, and two in Ger- as well as manufacturer of some of the many, the "Schwab" and the "Trump£," earliest airplanes, simply expressed his both operated by industrial companies view: "I am absolutely unable to forsee for propaganda purposes. the future. I have done my bit in ad- Only one new airship is being con- vancing the idea of aviation in the past. ~tructed in the USA presently: the "Aere- At present I am continuing to work, on III," being built at the Mercer Coun- but to say, what will occur in the ty Airport, Trenton, N. J., resuming the future is absolutely impossible for me." tradition of the pioneer constructor Dr. The German airship constructor Major S. Andrews, whose developments around Gross formulated it as follows: "I be- 1866 were described by this reviewer lieve that the two ways of air transport in the Airpost Journal of July and Aug- together can conquer the airways and ust 1949. that both will supplement each other. It is of interest to comment on how The airships will always be able to experts for saw the developments be- transport greater loads than the flying tween airship and airplane half a cen- machines. They can always carry greater tury ago, when the airplane was just loads of merchandise and a large number beginning. The Paris newspaper Figaro of passengers. On the other hand, the Illustre sought to forecast future de- flying machines will always be speedier velopments before a group of pioneers Neither the airships nor the airplanes in February 1909. Here are a few of will afford real competition to the nor- their opinions and prophesies. mal means of surface transportation." The French Minister of Public Works, Louis Bleriot, the first to cross the Louis Barthou, said he looked forward to English Channel in an airplane, said large, undestructible, and well main- "The dirigibles will still make progress tained air routes which would replace for some time in their development, but or supplement some of the surface only to the day, when the airplane offers routes. He reviewed some uses for the the same safety as the balloon. Indeed, airship in certain services but felt that the only advantage, which the dirigible the airplane for a long time could not has presently over the airplane, is . that take a place in public transportation. it will stay up in case of a motor stop Nevertheless he predicted it would be- page. On the day when the airplane will come the most wonderful instrument have engines which give the same se of speed and he hoped that it would curity, there will be no longer a reason 112 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 for the existence of the balloon." Louis Breguet, for many years after wards, one of France's great airplane 1963 Convention to be Held manufacturers, said: "The airships will be more and more the instruments of In Boston July 12th large scale transportation. I forsee air ships of a volume of 50,000 even 100,000 We have just learned that the cubic meters ( 1,750,000 to 3,000,000 annual convention of the Society cubic feet). Their speed will be about will he held in Boston, Mass. on 70 to 80 kilometers an hour ( 44 to 60 miles ) . They will be able to carry the weekend of July 12th. Fuller several hundred passengers; they will details will appear in the next issue play a part similar to the steamships in of the Journal. the transport of passengers. On the other hand, the airplane will for a long We can report, however, that time be limited to carrying 5 or 6 per the new 6c Airmail Stamp, First sons. But in the future the airplanes Day Sale, will he held at the con will be very speedy, will have great power and will reach speeds of 120 to vention. 150 kilometers ( 75 to 90 miles) an hour. (Save that weekend!) They will be very simple and very eco nomical, very safe and very practical. Other pioneers expresses similar ideas. They all underestimated the rate of LAVA NEWSLETTER development for the airplane. Do we perhaps underestimate the possibility for We have received the current issue a return of the airship in one form or of the "Air Mail Entire Truth" published the other? three times a year by Lava, Box 1, Fort George Station, New York 40, N.Y. The publication is free, but those desiring to receive it should send a supply of We are philatelic auctioneers legal-sized envelopes, 5 cent stamped and specialize and addressed. Currently it features new new issues in providing of aerogrammes, wartime V-mail service, a competitive market and notes of current interest. for stamp collections • NAVY ENDS ITS and other philatelic properties FLYING OF BLIMPS A recent U.P.I. dispatch from Wash Qver 35 years' experience ington said that the Navy advised Sen. Clifford P. Case ( R-N.J.) that it was assures the maximum abandoning the last of its blimps and dis in results posing of associated spare parts and equipment. Your inquiry is welcomed The notification came in a letter to Case from Vice Adm. W. A. Schoech, IRWIN HEIMAN, which was released by the senator's office. Inc. Case said the Navy's decision to scrap 2 West 46th Street New York, N.Y. a number of standby lighter-than-air Telephone: JUdson 2-2393 Suite 708 craft stored at the Lakehurst ( N.J.) Serving American Philately Since 1926 Naval Air Station "appears to let all the air out of the airship program." THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 113 OFFICIAL SECTION AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY
MONTHLY REPORT From the Secretary Ruth T. Smith, 102 Arbor Road, Riverton, New Jersey FEBRUARY 1, 1963 NEW MEMBERS 4962 Young, Ruth M., (Mrs.), Box 436, Lyons, Nebr. 4963 Russell, Fred I., 103 Grandview St., Springfield 8, Mass. 4964 Bronchain, Arthur, 7 rue P. J. Lecomte, Dampremy, Belgium 4965 Sams, Paul E., 1616 Lakeshore Drive., New Orleans, La. 4966 Dobson, George L. (Dr.), 308-9 J. Campbell Bldg., Honolulu 13, Hawaii 4967 Lindros, William A., R.D.#1, Railroad Ave., Mount Holly, N. J. 4968 Sanford, Kendall C., 20 Montclair Dr., Ellicott City, Maryland NEW APPL I CATIO NS Hampikian, Hrand (Mr.), 6947 W. Outer Dr., Detroit 35, Mich. Age: 61 Land scaper, By. Orian Green AM U20 UC PC HC lD APS X Bishop, Lionel C., 149 Gwenfred Rd., South Perth, W. Australia Age: 50 Business Manager, By: R. T. Smith AM AU AS JF PC HC EL FF CAM FAM OF Z CF lD PIX X Berman, Charles S., 5 Ruth Rd., Plainview, N. Y. Age: 43 Buyer, By: P. C. Nahl AU AS SC CF X Shapiro, Ira, 57-49 Marathon Pkwy., Little Neck 62, N.Y. Age: 40 Purch. Agt. JF HF FF CAM FAM lD X By: P. C. Nahl deNeuf, D. K., 14 Woodhill Rd., Wilton, Conn. Age: 56 Executive By: P. C. Nahl AM AU HC PB RP CC Z X Athens, George, 90 Alpine View, Gadsden, Ala. Age: 46 Foreman By: M. Thompson AM AS JF HF PC HC PA FF GF CAM FAM RP OF DC Z CFC lD APS X Bauernschmitt, Fred, 54 Salisbury Ave., Toronto 5, Ont., Canada Age: 31 Chef JF FF (German) Z X By: P. C. Nahl Connor, Joseph S., Phaneuf St., Middleton, Mass. Age: 42 Air Traff. Officer AM PA Z AlD and APS of U.S. X By: P. C. Nahl Green, Herbert F., 3805 DeLongpre Ave., Los Angeles 27, Cal. Age: 27 Station Manager By: P. C. Nahl Houlton, Robert D., 2934 Humboldt Ave. No., Minneapolis 11, Minn. Age: Leg. By: R. T. Smith Nixon, Scott. SFC Bldg., Augusta 5, Ga. Age: 61 Insurance By: R. T. Smith JF HF PB FF GF FAM OF Z AlD . Preisler, Frank NI. 122'1 Fordham, Modesto, Calif. Age 73, Retired. By: P. C. Nahl AM AU SC CAM FAM Z APS X Silberstein, Herman, 620-19th St., Santa Monica, Cal. Age: 70 By: P. C. Nahl AM AU Streissguth, Robert W., 8608 w. Keefe Ave., Milwaukee 22, Wisc. Age: 58 Painter JF HF CAM AID APS By: P. C. Nahl Firestone, Joseph, 4820 W. 55th St., Shawnee Mission, Kansas. Age 43, Merchant AM AU AS JF HF PC HC. PB GF CAM FAM RP CC OF DC Z AlD PIX X By: P. C. Nahl Gruen, Jack A., 809 Crestview, Corpus Christi, Texas Age: 42 Draftsman JF HF HC PA GF CAM FAM RP OF AliD APS PIX X By: P. C. Nahl Hahn, Raymond G., 38 Wildwood Dr., Youngstown 12 Ohio Age: 37 U.S. Post Off. AM AU JF HC PA PB FF CAM FAM RP CC OF Z CF AlD APS X By: P. C. Nahl Korbel, George W., 7651 W. Adams St., Forest Park, Ill. Age: 55 Export Mgr. AM AU JF FF AlD X By: R. T. Smith Marjay, Leslie (Mr.), 2930 Chestnut Hill Dr., Sacramento 26, Cal. Age: 47 Chemist AM By: R. T. Smith Venskus, John J., 2137 W. 21st Pl., Chicago 8, Ill. Age: 44 Floorman AM AU U20 UC FAM CF X By-; E. W. Headley Komonchak, Joseph B., 163 West Route 59A, West Nyack, N. Y. Age 58 Court Reporter JF HF FF CAM AlD X By: R. T. Smith RE-INSTATEMENTS 3250 Marquis, Samuel L., 68-09 Burns St., Forest Hills 75, N.Y. 4807 Love, Stanley H., Box 9782, Rieiera Beach, Fla. 4648 De Witt, Omar L., 1704 - 55th Pl., LaGrange, Ill. DECEASED 2257 Barringer, Horace P., Trop, N.Y. 1220 McArthur, Fulton, Basking Ridge, N.J. RESIGNATIONS 3619 Harley, John H., Ithaca, N.Y. 4140 Goodpastor, Clayton, 350 Marvin Way, Auburn, Cal. 4866 Chassy, David, Box 42, Babylon N.Y. 4536 Williamson, Paul, 8008 Orlando Dr., Clayton, Mo. 4709 Telfer, John D., 128 N. Normal, Str., Ypsilanti, Mich. 42Ul Cohn, Louise, Box llU, Studio City, Calif. 114 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 DONALD E. DICKASON AAMS 211 APS 5216 SPA 5848 AIR POST NEW ISSUES (Formerly of Wooster, Ohio) Reactivates his longtime OF THE ENTIRE Philatelic Auction Service With Florida Sale #78 WORLD March 2 and 3 AT SARASOTA
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THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 115 HAMMARSKJOLD aerogrammes to be auctioned off to the ROCKET COVERS highest bidder with the funds so realized being contributed to the Catalogue Fund. As a tribute to the memory of the late He says that the average retail price of Secretary General of the U.N. the Zucker such a lot would be about $35.00 and Organization named their research rocket that all are crisp, fresh sheets not having ZR126 launched on Dec. 13 near Merode, been in a collection and would not in Germany the "Dag Hammarskjold." Ac clude any commercially used sheets. In cording to the flight log the count-down brief, they would all be very desirable. started a few minutes before the take "If you're at all interested, send a off time 15 o'clock Midde European bid to Mr. Singley at 1022 West Ross Time in the midst of a shower mixed Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. You will with snow flurries. The rocket carried be doing yourself and the Society a real 500 first day U.N. outer space covers service if you should be the highest aloft, which had been flown by jet to bidder. If there is great interest, the the authenticating cachets and the exper offer will be repeated. imenter's signature they bear a blue and black vignette with the U.N. emblem • and Hammarskjold's portrait with the CAT ALO GUE REPRINTS bi-lingual inscription "G. Zucker Rock- ARE SELLING WELL ets in the Service of Peace." Gerhard The Society is quite pleased at the Zucker, who was commissioned to make early quick response to the announcement the first rocket flight in Great Britain of the reprinting of its American Air in 1934 during the Apex, also conducted Mail Catalogue, Georae Kingdom, Tyler the fir t official Swiss flight in 1961 Building, Conneaut, Ohio, who is hand ( Bellinzona) and recently the first of- ling the distribution, reports a brisk sale ficial Rocket Mail flight in Andorra. of all three volumes. Volume I and Robert Schoendorf Volume 2 which were reprinted, can O be ordered from him at $6.25 each, A POSSIBLE BARGAIN po tpaid, while supplies of Volume 3, FOR SOMEBODY published in 1959 are still available in
Fom1er AAMS President, Richard L. the original edition, at the same price. f ·d Foreign purchasers should add 25c to Singley, has hit upon a very me I ea each volume for the additional postage to raise funds for the AAMS Catalogue fund which always has need for addition- required. al income. As a donation, he proposes This is a must - the bible of aero to make up a selection of 100 "all dif- philately and is the keystone to most of ferent, either mint or cancelled to order," our collecting interests. Get yours today! 116 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 A.A.M.S. AUCTION THIS WILL NOT BE A DONATION AUCTION, although contributions of In order to hold a successful auction material for the benefit of the Society it is both necessary and important to are always appreciated - but will be a be able to supply the kind of merchan sale for members on a commission basis. dise that interests and appeals to the Usually the A.A.M.S . commLSs10n is bidders. Such material is needed for 25 percent, but members often donate tlrn nex t American Airmail Society auc some of this, usually giving the Society tion to be held in the near future, poss half of the proceeds, or even all. In ibly at tl1 e 1963 annual convention. The submitting your material it is most im auction committee is hopeful that it will portant to state which method is to be have a minimum of 100 lots of better fo llowed. airmail items (both stamps and covers) The d eadline for receiving material with the anticipated receipts to be i11 to be auctioned is Monday, April 1, excess of $250.00. This material is need 1963 and should be sent to: ed now! The committee is hopeful that Samuel S. Goldsticker, Jr., Auction material submitted might stimulate bid Manager, ding to average at least $5 .00 per lot, 70-D Fremont Street Bloomfield, N. J. Surely you collectors MUST have some saleable duplicate or surplus phi PLEASE REMEMBER - for a success lateli c items that can be sold for YOU ful auction, good, saleable merchandise at this auction. is necessary.
The U.N. Space Item of the Year at a1 Bargain Unii'ed· Nations Outer Space First Day Cover carried by ZR 126 Zucker Research Rocket "D. Hammarskjold" only 500 flown. ------•••••-We offer while supply lasts: United N·ation First Day Cover 4c and llc Outer Space issue with rare Zucker Rocket stamp: D. H ammarskjold authenticat ing cachet, signed, carried by ZR 126, with perforate Rocket stamp $·2.75 dtto. First Day Cov er with imperforate Pair Rocket •••tt••o zuck<• •oc•ns '"THE srnvic• o' """' stamps $·3 .25 Rare Mint sh eet •lilll•lllllllllilMillM•llllillM•llMlllilllllllllliil.. of 4 Rocket stamps perforate or imperforate each $1.00 Other Rocket F lown Covers: A ndo r ra Telst ar ZR 122 first official dispatch $2 .75 ; Andorra '62 Europa ZR 124 $1.50; Germany FDC Luposta ZR 121 $2.50; NRS Holland '59 Human Rights "A. Lincoln" $4.75 USA '60 First Day Covers NRS Boy Scou ts " D. Beard" or "Baden Powell" each $5.00 ; USA '60 Winter Oly mpics First D ay Cover " T ahoe City" $5.00; USA P t. Mugu May 1, 1959 p.o.r.; R egulus/ Barbero first officia l Missile mail p.o.r. Space First Day Covers: East Ger m any new Mint sheet of 8, five years space explorer, very small issue $2.85; Germany T win flights $1.30; Hungary space Heroes (7) $2.25; Romania T win flights $1.75; Hungary T win flights perforate $1.00; imperforate $2.25; Egypt first UAR 75c; Poland T w in flight sheet and 2 s t ps. $1.50; Russia Twin flight perforate $1.00, imperforate $1.50; Russia new Vostok 1J. (2) perforate $1.00; imperforate $1.50; G erm any DRG w . P .O . Rocket postmark s: P araguay n ew " Planets" 5 value $1.00; complete set $30 .00; Bul garia new T w in flight $1.45 ; Russia Mars overprint $1.00. Shepard; Glenn; Carpenter· Titov; Gagarin each $1.50 SA Spacecraft Recovery Ships; covers boa r dpost~arked time of recovery: USS Randolph (Grissom) $17.50 ; NOA (Glenn) $12.50; Intrepid (Carpenter) $10.00 ; Kearsarge (Schirra) $4.50. All Rocket and Space covers on hand. Send wants. No price list. Belham .Exchange, Box 119, Ridgewood, 27, N .Y .
THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 117 THE ECUADOR PION.EER FLIGHT planes over the Alps. CARD OF OCTOBER 8, 1913 It would seem, therefore, that the mint cards actually were flown on this 1913 Dr. Roberto Levi-Castillo's interesting pioneer flight. Some of the cards were article in the July 1962 issue of the Air used later, being addressed to friends post Journal gave us the first informa as souvenirs. These cards were mailed tion about the special pioneer cards is by ordinary means after the flight, but sued in Guayaquil for the first airplane they are still to be rediscovered. flight in Ecuador on October 8, 1913. Besides these 250 cards for the air He also assisted us in clearing up a few transportation the newpaper issued 750 additional facts which will qualify it simila cards, later printing 2,000 other for eventual listing in future pioneer air for an additional drive for funds for mail catalogues. Ecuadorian aviation. These latter c:ards The card which is shown in the Air have a different design. They show :he post Journal on page 327 is one of 250 airplane in the picture with the figure special cards prepared in the printing of the aviator in an oval. The first 750 plant of the daily newspaper "El Tele of these cards of the 2000 run were sold grafo". The owner of this paper Don on the field, also at 10 centavos. These Jose Abel Castillo y Albornoz was very cards were not flown. The entire second active in the promotion of the airplane issue was sold out, and still can be in Ecuador. He planned to assist the found occasionally. group which organized the Guayaquil These additional facts were contri flight, the Club Guayas de Tiro y Avia buted by Dr. Levi Castello to further cion, by the issue of these cards. They clarify this interesting issue. were to be flown in the Italian built In view of these special circumstances airplane before being issued to the pub it should be pointed out that the Amer lic at the imprinted rate of 10 centavos ican Air Mail Catalogue on page 1075 (at that time about 5 U.S. cents) to col shows a German card - also processed lect funds for the continuation of these by a local newspaper - which was drop flights. ped from an airship, without addresses. The cards are imprinted on the re It was possible here to mail the already verse side "Postales de "El Telegrafo" flown card. These cards liad on the ad (with the address of the paper and the dress side a circular descriptive cachet usual text of the contemporary postal "Dropped from the Parseval -- October cards) . There was a space for the ad Festival 1910''. This cachet was applied dress and for messages of the sender. before the flown cards had ever reached Such inscriptions by the sender had to the person who might later dispatch the be made after he has purchased the al card by ordinary means. ready flown card. - Dr. Max Kronstein Although there was only one flight which ended with a crash, mint cards • were flown. Contemporary reports men BOOK REVIEW - tion that "the airman came out from under the crash and immediately started THE GERMAN GIANTS, G. W. selling his cards to the public". The Haddow and Peter M. Grosz; Putman "cards were snatched by the public after London, 1962 (Distributed in U.S. by the crash, as much as 2 sucres were AERO publishers, Inc., Los Angeles; paid for each, (at that time about one $12:95) dollar). Everybody was anxious to pay The pioneer or heroic period of av for these cards as a contribution to the iation ending with the oubreak of purchase of another airplane." World War One gave aircraft an un Another plane was not purchased, be precedented accelerated development. cause the start of the first world war Money and human lives were sacrificed was close at hand. Aviator Cosme Renel freely to beat enemy performance and la joined the Italian Air Force and was when the fighting ended the tools were credited for having shot down 12 enemy there for airline operations with convert- 118 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 ed bombers to proceed to pure commer triguing appeal to the German mind and cial models. these truly giant airplanes of World War At the start of World War One the One vintage were indeed remarkable general public referred t-0 all German developments and achievements for their planes as "Taube" and every airship was time. It is thus only natural that they taken for a 'Zeppelin." In time the dir should become the subject -0£ a special igibles were outperformed by airplanes book of the above listed title by an and vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire. The American and an English author who British realized then that later air raids spent much time and effort in running on England had been carried out by down still available information, draw bomber planes which they dubbed "G-0- ings, pictures and service records of this thas" after the best known model. acme in airplane size and load carrying At that time little was known of the capacity which has only been exceeded German giant bombers which were then in recent years. A healthy interest in being developed and used. They first past aeronautical achievements is being operated on the eastern front where desplayed these days, as witness the fighter planes opposition and anti-air various national and state organizations, craft guns were less efficient. Later they ' with members numbering into the thou appeared also on the western front when sands, devoted to this field. THE GER some experience in operating them had been gained and they were further de MAN GIANTS makes fascinating read veloped. ing; this volume can be thoroughly re The colossal has always held an in- commended to aviation enthusiasts.
THE PHILATELIC STORY OF FLIGHT by Frank R. Gracey
NUMBER 37 LEFT - While the Franco-Prussian war was still in progress the first military dirigible was built by Dupuy de Lome for the French government. It was successfully tried out in 1872, Though a light steam engine had been used in other balloons, its propeller was driven by hand by a crew of eight men. Men were retarded from developing the dirigible by the lack of a powerful light engine. Renard and Krebs developed their dirigible, driven by an electric motor. They christened the balloon, 'La France' and gave an exhibition near Calais on August 9, 1884. They made fourteen miles an hour on a successful trip. NUMBER 38 RIGHT - Gennany watched the progress France was making in the development of -balloons, and in 1880 Baumgarten and Wolfert, two Germans, de veloped and ascended in a cigar-shaped dirigible, with wings or sails at the sides, and three oars suspended below it. One of the passengers overbalanced the ship, and it crashed to the earth. They then used benzine motors. A few years later, after Baumgarten's death, Wolfert built a new dirigible. He made several ascensions, but finally his benzine vaporizer caused an explosion, from which the ship caught fire in mid air. He and his assistant were killed as the flaming ship crashed to the ground.
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Life Member: 2 2 ~({))Im. 'lf JHI 2 ~DD S '1f 09 AAMS EILMIER Ro JL(()) ~ 120 THE AIBPOST .JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 . THE AIBPOST .JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 121 A Biogra phical and Philatelic Study - Ch arl es A. Lindb erg h By Walter Curley, Librarian-Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum, Inc . LINDBERGH STAMPS • 2. Costa Rica 1928 ( 147). - This was issued on January 7, 1928 to commem Since 1927, several stamps have been orate Lindbergh's visit on his goodwill issued which explicitly honor Lindbergh. tour. A previous issue ( 124) was over In addition to these direct commemor printed for the occa ·ion, "Lindbergh atives, many collectors have included as Enero 1928." Lindbergh items ( 1) those stamps which 3. Cuba 1928 (C2). - On February 8, 1928, Cuba issued a special stamp to show the same type plane as the Spirit commemorate Lindbergh's arrival in of St. Louis, i.e., a Ryan monoplane, or Havana. A previous issue (Cl) was its mail and passenger prototype, the overprinted "Lindbergh - Febrero 1928." Ryan B-1; and (2) those stamps which 4. Cuba 1955 ( Cl23). - The design were issued on the days Lindbergh vis shows the Spirit of St. Louis in flight ited certain countries and used on cover ( Figure 23, left). with special Lin dbergh cachets and can 5. Dominican Republic 1928-1933 cellations, although the stamp designs (Cl-Cl9). - All these stamps show a are not in any way connected with Lind plane of the same type as the Spirit of bergh. St. Louis. Like all other fields of topical collect 6. Ecuador 1928-1933 ( C8-Cl5). - ing, the items which go into a Lindbergh Again a Spirit of St. Louis-type plane is collection is a matter of individual pref seen. erence. However, we will attempt here 7. France 1927 ( 243-244). - Thi to compile a Lindbergh checklist and stamp shows the Spirit of St. Louis fly include items that could go into such a ing over the S.S. Paris. collection. Some of these stamps have 8. Haiti 1928 ( 320) . - The design of been desc1ibed elsewhere in this paper, this stamp has no connection with Lind but will be briefly described again for bergh, but according to the American the convenience of the reader. The cat Air Mail Catalogue: "It was first placed alogue numbers are from the 1962 on sale at Port-au-Prince on February edition of Scott's StO'ndard Postage 6, 1928 in honor of Lindbergh's visit Stamp Catalogiie. and marked with the Lindbergh cachet in addition to the usual cancellation." 1. United States 1927-28 ( ClO, ClOa). 9. Mexico 1929-1934 ( C5-Cl9). - - The stamp ( ClO) was issued on June The plane in this design is the same 18, 1927, less than a month after Lind type as the Spirit of St. Louis. bergh's New York to Paris flight. The 10. Newfoundland 1931 (CB) . - The booklet ( ClOa) was issued on May 26, design shows the routes of historic 1928. transatlantic flights including Lind bergh's. 11. Panama 1928 ( C256-257). - This set of two· shows the Spirit of St. Louis in both designs and were issued to com memorate Lindbergh's visit on January 9, 1928. 12. Panama 1929 (Cl) . - Some col lectors include this surcharged stamp as a LindberCTh item. It was especially overprinted for the northern inaugural return flight of F AM-5, Cristobal to Miami, February 10-13, 1929. However, 122 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 right). In the lower right-hand corner is seen a cat reminiscent of one Lind bergh played with in New York while waiting to take off on his transatlantic flight. Apparently it was originally in tended to print this stamp in two colors because a major variety has the head of Lindbergh printed separately. 16. Surinam 1954 ( C27). - On Sep tember 25, 1954, Surinam issued this stamp to commemorate the 25th anni versary of the first airmail service. On Sept. 22-23, 1929, Lindbergh was the pilot on the F AM-6 Extension inaugural flight, San Juan to Paramaribo, Surinam. On the return flight, Lindbergh took off from Paramaribo on September 25, 1929. This was the first airmail service in Surinam. 17. Surinam 1960 (277). - This de sign shows an amphibian plane in flight, (Figure 23, center). Lindbergh flew a Sikorsky amphibian 142-M on the FAM- 6 extension inaugural flight, San Juan, Puerto Rico to Paramaribo, Surinam, September 22-23, 1929. Lindbergh took off from Paramaribo on the return flight to San Juan on September 25, 1929. The only Canal Zone mail was permitted on Words "Lindbergh 25 Sept. 1929" are Lindbergh's plane, but Pan American seen at the bottom of the stamp. Airways supplied another plane to carry The Orient and North Atlantic the Panama mail on the return flight. Survey Tours This flight was known as the "Outlaw Flight." Perhaps the last of the Lindbergh covers of special interest to the air mail 13. Pa n am a 1930-1941 ( C6-C9, collector are those associated with the Cl6). - Another design which shows a two survey tours undertaken by Lind Ryan monoplane of the Spirit of St. bergh and his wife, Anne Morrow. They Louis type. began their Orient tour in New York on 14. Spain 1929 ( C6-Cll). - This de July 27, 1931. After stopping in North sign shows the Spirit of St. Louis flying Haven, Maine to visit Mrs. Lindbergh's over the coast of Europe. parents and one-year old Charles Lind 15. Spain 1930 ( C56). - Both Lind bergh, Jr., they took off for Ottawa, bergh and the Spirit of St. Louis are in Canada. Flying a northern route to the the design of this stamp ( Figure 23, Orient, they flew across Canada, Alaska, Figure 23 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 123 the Bering Sea, Russia, Japan and China. August 10, 1931 and post ed this mail Their plane, the Sirius, had a 600 at Nome, Alaska the next day. Apparent horsepower engine and was equipped ly none of this mail ever reached the with pontoons to enable them to land hands of collectors. in the many open bodies of water which The Lindberghs picked up one letter they traversed. The gasoline capacity in Kamchatka, Russia which Mrs. Lind gave them a range of 2000 miles. Figure bergh mailed in Tokyo, but nothing 24 shows Mrs. Lindbergh in the rear more has been heard of this cover. cockpit of the Sirius shortly before take Apparently the only covers connected off on the survey flight to the Orient. with the Orient tour which are available It is known that the Lindberghs picked to collectors are commemorative covers up a small batch of mail at the desolate which were mailed in the places where ice-locked settlement of Point Barrow at the Lindberghs visited on the day of the northern tip of Alaska. The only their arrival. Like the souvenir covers of communication this town had with the Lindbergh's goodwill tours, they were outside world was by radio, except for not carried by Lindbergh, but serve only a provisions boat which visited the as mementos of his visits. Figure 25 small community once a year and a few shows one of these souvenir covers mail "dog-sled mails" during the winter. ed in Tokyo on August 26, 1931, the The Lindberghs left Point Barrow on day of the Lindbergh's arrival in that ·Figure 25 124 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 Figure 26 city. including Canada, Newfoundland, Lab The tour ended in Hankow, China in rador, Gree'111land, Iceland, Denmark, October 1931, when the Sirius capsized Swed en, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Nor in the Yantze River and was seriously way, England, Ireland, Scotland, France, damaged. The Lindberghs had to be Holland, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, rescued by a lifeboat. Shortly after, they Azores, Canary Islands, Cape Verde returned to America by boat. The plane Isl ands, Gambia, Brazil, Trinidad, Puerto was shipped to California for repairs. Rico, and the Dominican Republic. In 1933, the Lindberghs made another The Lindberghs are known to have survey tour, this time a 30,000 mile tour picked up mail in Greenland and de around the North Atlantic Ocean. They livered it to the post office in Reykjavik used the same plane which was later in Iceland. Some of these Greenland renamed by the Greenland Eskimos covers are in existence. "Tingmissartoq," an Eskimo word mean As in other Lindbergh flights, com ing "one who flies like a bird." memorative covers were mailed in places The tour started in New York on where the Lindberghs visited. Figure 26 July 9, 1933 and covered 14 countries shows a cover mailed in Reykjavik, Ice- Figure 27 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 125 Figure 28 land on the day of the Lindberghs' ar- H. Griffin, prominent air mail collector rival (August 17, 1933). The tour ended and past president of the American Air in New York on December 19, 1933. Mail Society. Of his many collecting MISCELLANEOUS LINDBERGH interest" this Lindbergh collection was COVERS his favorite; and it is considered to be There are many other covers which the finest collection of Lindbergh covers ar of interest to the Lindbergh collector. in existence. Of special interest are, of course, those On September 4, 1954, at the 31st which were carried on flights made by Annual Convention of the American Lindbergh. Air Mail Society in Philadelphia, Mr. Figure 27 shows a cover carried on Griffin presented his Lindbergh albums the "City of Columbus" which Lind to the National Philatelic Museum. bergh piloted on its initial flight from When this Museum transferred its hold Los Angeles to New York. This fHght ings to the Cardinal Spellman Collection, inaugurated a 48-hour passenger service the Lindbergh albums were transferred between the two cities on July 8, 1929. to the newly-formed philatelic museum Figure 28 shows a cover carried on at Regis College in Weston, Massachu the S-42 Giant Sikorsky Flying Boat on setts. a test flight on August 1, 1934. During the flight, the craft broke eight flying Mr. Griffin died in Florida on De records. Tlu·ee famous pilots took part cember 14, 1955. in the tests; Charles Lindbergh, Boris (To be continued) Sergievsky who was the chief test pilot, and Edwin Musick, well-known Clipper ADVANCE BULLETIN 'SERVICE pilot. Other covers of interest are the sou If you use the Advance Bulletin venir or commemorative (not carried Service, please remember that the post by Lindbergh) such as anniversary age has increased and that it would be covers. Two of the most popular types well to send Paul Bugg, the Advance of anniversary covers are those of the Bulletin Manager, additional postage for CAM-2 inaugural flight and anniversary the cards that you now have with him. covers of the New York to Paris flight. A le stamp for each card will enable V. THE LINDBERGH COLLECTION you to keep your notices up to date. If The present study was based on the you change your address, please be sure Lindbergh collection in the Cardinal to have him make the change on the Spellman Philatelic Museum. This col cards he now has. His address is 3724 lection was formed by the late Herbert Old York Road, Baltimore 18, Maryland. 126 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 South African Airmails A Chronological Listing, Indicating The History and Development of the Airmails of South Africa and Souih West Africa (continued) By Capt. M. F. Stern, A.R.I.B.A., F.R.G.S. (oOypright reserved) . May 18th, 1935: S.A. Airways: flying around• a flood: During the early part of May the coastal region of South Africa was in the grip of almost unprecedented severe floods. This disorganized all forms of transport. Air liners were hogged down on May 13tili. A plane was sent on May 18th, landing at Queenstown and Beaufort West, carrying 200 letters and a small mail of 11 letters from Queenstown, this being the first airmail from that town. There was a flight over the same route from Cape Town to Durban on May 20th but no mails up on or from Beaufort West or Queenstown. It is of interest that the flight from Durban to Cape Town on the 18th was the first to be flown in one day. May 31 I June L 1935: Special Post Office Exhibition: Windhoek: Similar postcards as thus issued in Cape Town 7 /11 May, 1935 were issued as airmail propaganda. July 30, 1935: First Flight: Cape Town - Salisbury - Beira: This mail \;vas conveyed on the inaugural flight from Salisbury by R.A.N.A. to Beira and to Salisbury by Imperial Airways 'Adromeda' ( Commander: F.C. Elliot Wilson) Cape Town to Johannesburg, July 30; 'Adromeda.' Johannesburg to Sal isbury 31st; Salisbury to Beira August 1 (Pilot R.A.C. Florence) b/ s Beira 1 Ago. 35. This wa , an important feeder service. First return flight was on August 3 from Beira to Cape Town, bls Cape Town 6. VIL 35 16.00. Thus this was flown on the first flight S.A.A. over Beaufort West, between Johannesburg and Cape Town. August 3, 1935: Cape Town - Salisbury - Blantyre - Beira: The service between Salisbury and Blantyre took place on August 5 and the connecting mail from Gerrniston was made on August 3, 1935 on the "duplicate" THE AIRPOST J OURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 127 service. The return flight was made on August 6 and 7 from Beira to Salisbury via Blantyre. Mails arrived Cape Town on August 9. Augus:t 5, 1935: The Rand Airport (Johannesburg) was opened. August 2, 1935: Rand-Durban-Cape Town: 'One Day' Service: S.A. Airways retimed their schedules to provide a bi-weekly service from Johann esburg to Cape Town via Durban in one day. Capt. F.C.J. Fry was the pilot. No connection as previously was now made with the mail steamer at Cape Town. Augus:t 6, 1935: Rand - Cape "Shu:t:tle" Service: S.A. Airways: Concurrently with the decision to duplicate the coastal service, arrangements were made to operate a weekly "Shuttle" service 128 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 Windhoek on September 3. This flying schedule was altered again in April, 1936. September 20, 1935: First bi-weekly service London to Singapore: Mail left Cape Town on September 20 to connect with the above Imperial Airways service. October 24, 1935: Post Office Radio Exhibition, held at Johannesburg: Propaganda cards were reissued and received a special Exhibition cancellation. November 5, 1935: Record Flight: Flight Lieut. D. Llewellyn and Mrs. Jill Wyndham: Cape to London: This was done in 6 days 12 hrs. 17 mins. They left England on October 8 but due to mishaps did not set a record to South Africa. Three letters were carried. December 9, 1935: Special Flight: Windhoek to Swakopmund: A special charter flight was made and return. Mail was despatched in both direc tions. In addition to the normal postmark the circular propaganda cachet used on August 31 for S.W.A. was applied. The return flight was made on December 10 (pilot: Capt. J. N. Cooke). These are rare items. December 1935: Post Office Exhibition, East London (Capel: Propaganda cards were again issued and received special cancellation. January 2, 1935: South African Airways put Port Elizabeth on its schedule. J·anuary 12, 1936: Scout Jamboree, East London: There was a special delivery of the "Sunday Tribune" by plane to the Jamboree site (the writer was one of the Scout Commissioners who received this mail). The bundles of newspapers bore a label marked "By Air" in red. Unfortunately only one label was preserved. February 6, 1935: Record Flight by Ft. Lieut Tommy Rose: London to Cape: This was carried out by West Coast in 3 days 17 hrs 38 mins. Rose left Cape Town on March 3 and made the flight in 6 days 6 hrs. 57 mins. despite strong headwinds and a whole day's delay at Benghazi, thus breaking the record set up by Capt. Llewellyn and Mrs. Jill Wyndham. February 10, 1935: The Pietersburg Crash :Imperial Airways: This was the first serious mishap suffered by Imperial Airways in Africa. The south-bound liner "Artemis," carrying mails, (·London February 2) left Piertersburg for Germiston and crashed in trees near the aerodrome, being totally wrecked. There was no loss of life. Mails were brought to Germiston by a Dragon Rapide of African Air Transport. Company. February 15/16, 1936: West African Link: Imperial Airways: This joined Khartoum and Kano with a D.H. 86 aircraft piloted by Capt. O.P. Jones. Mails from London February 9 and Cape Town February 7 (arriving Khartoum 11th) were carried. Rate fixed was ls. per lh oz for South Africa. Total mail from South Africa was 37 covers. The return flight was made on February 17118, mails arriving London the 25th and Cape Town February 24. No special cachets or postmarks were applied. The route was via Maidugeri, Fort Lamy, Ati, G cneina, El Facher and El Obeid. March 1936: Air Mail Folders: South African Airways: Two types of folders were issued. March 23, 1936: Penang to Hongkong Airmail: No mails were carried from South Africa on this first flight. March 27, 1936: Hongkong to Penang: First Flight: Mails were carried to South Africa. This was operated by Imperial Airways and mails were bis Cape Town 12. IV 36 19.15, and received a special rectangular THE AIRPOST J"OURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 129 descriptive cachet. March 20, 1936: This was the last through service by Imperial Airways to Cape Town from London, arriving Cape Town on March 29. The service from Cape Town on March 31 was the last through service by Imperial Airways and flown by Capt. R. F. Caspareuthus. April l, 1936 The section Cape Town to Germiston was taken over by South African Airways from Imperial Airways, and four weekly services were arranged in South Africa, including Bloemfontein. Coinciding with this the third S.A.A. Air Mail Folder was July 2 to 5, 1936: Transvaal Gliding Club: This was the first glider towing flight from Cape Town to Johannesburg. 1,000 copies of the Club pamphlets were carried but only No. 1 and No. 1000 were auto graphed by the pilots, A. Furstenbur.g ( S.A.A.F. Wapiti plane) and also by the pilot of the glider, Grunau Ba:by II, with wing span of 45 ft. September 15, 1936: Empire Exhibition, Johannesburg Cards: South Africa was the pioneer of the "All Up" mail and these cards could be flown anywhere in the world for 1hd. This offer was unique, as later in the "All Up" scheme franking of postcards was ld. A rare item in the writer's collection is a card flown where the green plane is inverted. September 25, 1936: ''Boadicea" Accident: Imperial Airways: Using a Percival Gull, she made the London to Cape tTip in 3 days .6 hrs. 26 mins. and return in 4 days 16 hf'. 17 mins. She carried 10 row1d flight covers, as well as three from Windhoek to Cape Town and two from Cape Town. She only broke Rose's record which was by the longer East Coast route by 11 hrs from London to Cape Town. June l, 1936: First acceptance of letters at airports: Late mail was accepted at the rate of 2d. up to 10 minutes of departure of planes. This was both in South Africa and S. W. A. issued. ( Germiston-CT April 1 and CT-Germiston April 3). April 7 I May 15, 1936: Records recaptured by Mrs. Amy Mollison: Mails to South Africa were included in the mails carried. The plane was lost in the English Channel and mail bags washed ashore November, 1936. Letters received cachets. The plane was enroute to India and Australia. September 29 :to October 3, 1936: The Schlesinger Air Race: London to Johannesburg: The start was from Portswood on September 29, 1936. The race was held in 130 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 conjunction with the Empire Exhibition in Johannesburg. Eight of the nine com petitors failed to complete the flight. Aviators Findlay and Morgan were killed on taking off from .Aibercorn. C. W. A. Scott accompanied by G. Guthrie in a Percival Vega were the only competitors to complete the course. They won the Trophy and the prize of £4,000. The time was 52 hrs. 56 mins. 48 secs. Mails were carried, but were small in number and are quite rare items. October 8, 1936: Feeder ·service Germiston :to Windhoek: This was now operated •by twin-engined Airspeed Envoy machines via Bloem fontein, Kimberley and Upington. This new service afforded direct connection with incoming and outgoing Imperial Airways aircraft at the Rand airport. October 11, 1936: The S .~.A . service Germiston to Cape Town was also rearranged, flying direct without stop at Bloemfontein October 12, 1936: First flight S.A.A. weekly service direct from Germiston to Port Elizabeth via Bloemfontein. November 2, 1936: Johannesburg In:terna:tional Philatelic Exhibition: This was held November 2 to 14. Stamps were overprinted "JIPEX 1936" in lhd. and ld. denominations. Covers received a special cancellation. Special covers and stickers were issued. The special Empire Exhibition cards were also posted at the Exhibition and franked 1/zd. November 12, 1936: The l:Y2d. Airmail S:tamp: This special stamp bearing minehead was issued for use in franking correspond ence intended for conveyance by air within South Africa and S.W.A. On close inspection it will be noted that in the upper spandrils are planes in the design. (To 'Be Cont inued) THE AIRPOST J"OURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 131 The Airmail Flights of Haiti (Concluded) By Richard L. Singley On Thursday, June 3, 1926 a weekly • carry mail. on his flight to t~e United air mail service was inaugurated to Con- States. This was made pubhc by the aives a town about 100 miles northwest Italian Charge d'Affaires. When de of P~rt-au-Prince. Later the service was Pinedo arrived at Port-au-Prince he re increased to three times a week. On the fused to carry the mail, and all covers first trip from Port-au-Prince, 430 letters were returned to the senders. were carried. The return flight was made the same day with 230 pieces. Both dis patches were appropriately backstamped AVION the same day. Type "b" cachet was ..,.. again brought into use. It is generally c believed the majority of these covers never came on the market. It was for this flight that type "c" cachet was prepared. This special can It was at Gonaives that Haitian in cellation was made of copper and was dependence was born, for in the Palace applied to the stamps and the cover. In d'Armes at dawn on January 1, 1804, all 371 letters were prepared and handed Dessalines, attended by his officers, in at the Port-au-Prince postoffice where swore to "abjure forever allegiance to they were postmarked March 28, 1927. France, to rather die than live under her This mail also received a single one line domination, and to fight to the last for rubber stamp cachet in purple, reading the preservation of their independence." "Le Cafe D'HAITI est le Meiller," which The name St. Dominque was abolished, literally translated means "Haitian coffee and the original name of Haiti re-estab is the best in the world." Although not lished. flown, these covers are worthy of men The city of Gonaives on the mainland tion. should not be confused with the Island On December 21, 1926 ·a Pan-Ameri of Gonave. This island, about thirty can flying squadron left Kelly Field, miles northwest of Port-au-Prince, is the San Antonio, Texas on a tour of Central most primitive in the whole West In and South America. The tour was in dies, and the most untouched by civil command of Major Herbert A. Darque, ization. It was here that Lieut. F. E. and involved 1a flight of 22,065 miles. Wirkus went at his own request. How Of its five planes, only the "San An he was crowned the "White King of La tonio," "San Francisco" and "St. Louis" Gonave" by the ten thousand blacks is returned, the "New York" and "Detroit" a most interesting and fantastic story. having crashed at Palomar, in Argen More on this may be found in "The tina. When the planes landed at Port Magic Island" by Mr. W. B. Seabrook. au-Prince a mail of 95· letters was pre What interests us is the monthly flights pared for dispatch. Letters were post made to La Gonave. There was little marked April 18, 1927, receiving the chance of mail going astray here for all type "c" cachet. In addition, there was the mail had to be for Wirkus. The a similar cachet to the one mentioned return mail consisted of his reports and above, reading "LE CAFE D'HAITI." personal mail to the outside world. It These covers are considered unofficial is not likely that any of this mail ever as they were never placed in the mails. got into collectors' hands. They were carried on the persons of Commander Francesco de Pinedo made the aviators and mailed back to Haiti Port-au-Prince a port of call on his four under cover. Not having been in the continent flight. Through some misun mails, they did not receive the back derstanding, the Haitian postal author stamp of ·washington, D. C. Covers post ities announced that de Pinedo would ed by persons other than Haitians were 132 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1963 returned personally under cover by circle. Covers are postmarked and back Major Dargue from Washington, Sept. stamped July 12. 23, 1927 with a letter of explanation that On the return flight there were 75 the aviators were not officially author pieces carried, postmarked and back ized to carry mail, the reason why the stamped July 12 at Port-au-Prince in covers lacked the Washington backstamp. addition to the two special cachets men tioned above. There is a very rare var The next 1air mail service to be estab iety of the Jeremie to Port-au-Prince lished was from Port-au-Prince to Port cover, with the postage stamp hand de-Paix, April 19, 1927. 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