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Rocket Covers * .1936 Edition 450 Pages 1400 lllust:rat:ions Every Air St:amp Properly Priced Essent:ial for Colledor & Dealer Cloth Bound $1.50. I Deluxe -- 2.50 Most: Complet:e St:ock of Al R MAIL STAMPS in t:he World EFFICIENT NEW ISSUE SERVICE Lowest Possible Prices Nicolas Sanabria, Inc. 17 East: 42nd St:reet: '°' New York Cit:y CABLE ADDRESS: NICSAN, NEW YORK *** To The Stars by ALTON J. BLANK Brazil honored Santos ·Dumont, early aviation enthusiast. by showing one of his &- D. E. HELMUTH lighter-tha-alr ships, The work of the Cleveland, Ohio Dayton, Ohio brothers shifted his en­ thusiasm to regular flying craft. ... D ASTRA , • , wrote the Latins. The first flight across the English ~ The endeavors of man to master Channel in 1909 by Louis Blerlot is re• the air have occupied air-minded gentry membered on the 2.25 fr. French stamp for hundreds of years: Witness the fun­ of 1934 in the 25th anniversary of that ny wood-uts which can be seen in his­ flight. tories of flying machin£S. Icarus and Da Vinci and Langley and a host more The United States airs of 1918 show one took a hand at perfecting some device of the early biplanes used in carrying whereby man might fly. They did not, • the mail. Similar machines were flown perhaps, foresee results once success was In the World War, a time in which avia­ achieved. tion developed of necessity faster than It would normally .have done. Today, for Instance, war clouds hover ominously over the realm of the Lion Latvia depicts the GeeBee speedster of 3uda. When the clouds shake !orth of 3immy Doolittle. destruction the airplane will play a major Several countries have honored the part . gigantic aircraft winging across mammoth DO-X, flying boat which cre­ the mountains to strike at Addis Ababa ated a sensation wherever flown. ·. , to scatter ruthlessly any · congrega­ tion of forces • • . t~ direct. The airplane Is a force to be considered in war · and in peace. And all this progress has been made since 1903. Aviation has come forward on Seven League Boots since that early day at Kitty Hawk. And In no other way can the history of aviation be so well set forth as with air mail stamps (and some that are not air mailsl) The early Wright pusher Is shown on the UnitEld States stamp issued in honor Most of tl:ie honors given ·to lighter­ of the International Aeronautical Con­ than-air craft are showered on that ference. While this ts NOT an air mall staunch veterans of many flights, the stamp· it .Is customarily collected with Graf Zeppelin-to the pole, across the them-and it does picture for our history Atlantic, with capable Hugo Von Eckener the first plane. at the helm. Within the year, It Is interesting to note, Dr. Von Eckener will again test the worth .of his .ship and his skill as pilot when he navigates the stretches of the Amazon river system with Sven Hedin, the noted Swedish explorer. ·The autogiro marked a great forward step. A plane that needs little space to take off or sit down has obvious ad­ vantages where space Is at a premium­ within, for Instance, the limits of a city proper. News reels recently featured an e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE e AMERICAN Am MAIL SOCIETY THE AIRPOST JOURNAL e OCTOBER. 1935. VOL. VII. NO 1 ISSUE 66 lOc PER COPY. [ 3 1 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL DETROIT AIR MAIL SOCIETY CELEBRATES AT 150TH MEETING • Celebrating the holding of their 150tb. meeting, the Detroit Air Mall Society re­ cently held an Exhibition and dance, in their clubrooms at 3641 East Canfield, in the Motor City. Over 100 persons at­ tended, including ot'flcers of the Michi­ gan Stamp Club, many of their members, and collectors from various parts of the autogiro which landed atop a post office state. all of whom voted the evening a tremendous success. It was . unanimously In Philadelphia to deliver and carry agreed to make the affair an annual event away mail. although a series of "social nights" has A modern autogiro ls to be seen on a already been outlined for the coming Fall and Winter season, starting With the Spanish stamp recently issued. party in honor o:t visiting Girl Pilots to The two attempts, in 1934 and 1935, of the All American Aircraft show, held in the U. S. Army an dthe National Geo­ J'uly. graphic Society to send a large free We believe it can be truthfullJ­ balloon into the stratosphere carrying stated that 1935 has been the greatest men in a sealed nacelle, focuses atten­ year in the history of the Detroit society, tion again on ballons. which ls probably the fastest growing group of the A.A.M.S. Sixteen new mem­ bers have been added to the rolls, which had dwindled to scarcely more than a dozen, during -the last year. Thirteen frames were sP,own under the Society's name in the joint exhibition with the Michigan Stamp Club, and Detroit Stamp and Coin Club last April and all of these won awards, being judged among the most interesting collections shown. Miss Margaret Spitz. our first honorary member is now flying the Air Mall in Peru, South America, and actually held the title of "America's First Girl Mail Pilot" several months before the widely advertised flights of Miss Helen Richey, in the United States. Among the many interested Detroit . visitors to the National Air Races at Cleveland were Pres. and Mrs. Alber·t Felice, ·and Secretary Don Smith, of the Detroit Air Mall Society, who enjoyed meeting members o:t·the Cleveland A.M.S. almost as much ahe races themselves. Belgium honors the flights of Prof. Others noticed at the Airmail Field in­ Piccard with a series of stamps showing cluded Mark Emsley, of Cleveland, Vic a fully lnftated stratosphere balloon. The Latto of Lorain, Bill Schnelder of Rah­ U,S.S.R. has Issued two sets, one to com­ way, N.J'., Chas. Koch of Massilon, 0. and memorate the successful but unot'flcial Mr. and Mrs. 0. E .. Green, ex-president flight of an Army Stratosphere balloon, of the D .A.M.S.-Don Smith, Secretary. the other to honor the men who died in the mysterious explosion of a second A.A.M.S. LIBRARIAN REQUESTS balloon. These, again depict scenes which ADDITIONAL MATERIAL fill in our history of flight. but are not Airs. Where the dividing line should A.A.M.S. Ubrarlan• Edwin W. Beitzell, be drawn ls a matter for argument. 1349 Girard St.• N.W. • Washington, D. C., will gratefully receive all contributions of air mall literature for addition to the 1'7,000 MILES BY AIR-3 CENTS Society's collection. Mr. Beitzell is com­ piling a complete index of the Alrpost The present airmail• postage to Austral- .Journal ,together with all other aero­ ia is 1/3. The Post Office hopes to carry philatellc literature and we expect to this mail within two years at 1¥.id (3 have annuoncement of his progress from cents) will be an achievement.-A Phillips time to time. [ 4 ] OCTOBER 1935 lectors' covers vla the first westward flight (trip 3) on September 16, 1935 and 15 pounds which included 350 collectors' covers via the first eastward flight (trip c. A. M. s. 4) on September 15. 1935. First flight westbound pilot was Hale and first flight eastward pilot was Hugh Ruschenburg. by CHARLES G. RIESS Helena received covers from the east Information concerning C.A.M.'s should included 320 collectors' covers and from be sent direct to the editor of section, the west included 210 collectors' covers. P. O. Box 11, Albany, N. Y. Westward dispatched covers from Bill­ ings and Billings air mail field via first flight of trip 3 to Helena can not be listed. as new directional first flight dispatched A LLENTOWN, PA. was embraced on covers of Billings and Billings A.M.F. as ~ A. M. Route 1 on September 14th, such 'covers would be a duplication of 1935 and dispatched 60 pounds (3,184 the listing of Helena received covers pieces) westward and 102 pounds (6,564 from the east. In other words, a cover pieces) eastward via the first flights. whether classed as a new directional First flight pilots and co-pilots were: dispatched cover of Billings or as a re­ westward-Larned, pilot; Nicholsen, co­ ceived cover of Helena from the east pilot. Eastward, Stewart, pilot; Wily, co­ wouia be the same cover. However, by pilot. Acting poS'tmaster at Allentown listing such covers as Helena rec•'.!ived was Ed. S. Diehl. Official cachet wa~ covers of addition from the east. any applied in magenta. cover whether mailed from Billings or Mr. Aibert N. Brown reports that Bos­ from any other point east of Billings ton air mail field covers of first direct that was carried via first flight of trip 3 flight Boston-New Haven via trip 7 over into Helena would be included in such A.M. Route 18 as of August l, 1935 exist listing and the listing confined to the new and accordingly such covers will be listed. point of addition concerned, Helena. In like manner. listing of Helena received With less than two days official notice covers of addition from the west will the daily Postal Bulletin dated September avoid duplication of listing and also take 13th carried the news that effective Sep­ care of the eastward directional disoatch­ tember 15th Helena, Mont.
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