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 ....................................