The August 1936 AIRPOST JOURNAL * 1936 Edition 450 Pages 1400 Illustrations Every Air St:amp Properly Priced Essential' for Collector & Dealer Deluxe -- I.SO EFFICIENT NEW ISSUE SERVICE Most Complete Stock of AIR MAIL LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES SANABRIA'S AIR POST NEWS Supplement to Catalog Chronicles, New Issues, Price Changes, Bi-Monthly - 25c YEAR - Sample Free Nicolas Sanabria, Inc. 17 East 42nd Street: ·:- New York Cit:y CABLE ADDRESS: NICSAN, NEW YORK WINGS,Over The PACIFIC cousin ·of Calbraith Rodgers (first man by ALTON J. BLANK to fly across the U. S.) was in charge of and D. E. HELMUTH the· PN~9 which. ·continued on. Cleveland, Ohio Within 400 miles of its goal the PN-9 was forced down to the water.· out of URING the summer and autumn o! gas. Unable to contact a supply ship in I) 1936 there will be numerous ex­ the vicinity. because of no radio· trans­ perimental flights made along different mitter, they rode the placid waters 9 routes across the Atlantic. Foremost in days before being towed to the. Islands. this work will be American fliers and They flew 1,992 ~of the 2.408 statute the famed Clipper Ships. miles - to Hawaii. Flights from continent to continent are No mail wlls carried. being taken out of the realm of adv-.n­ • RTRn OF PARADISE ture into the field of practical 1 routine. MAITLAND & HEGENBERGER There are alarmists who insist that· it • 1927 • Lts. Lester Maitland and Al can't be made practical. That the weather Hegenberger in an army · tri-motored and the sea are too vast, too impersonal. }~okker. the BIRD OF PARAPlSE power­ Such skeptics forget the thrilling vivid ed with 3 Wright Whirlwind motors, took story of how ni.an stretched· his wings off on June 28 from O•kland Airport for over the Pacific. Honolulu. Made the 2.408 mile flight in The story began back in 1925 when 25 hours 49 minutes. Calvin Coolidge was president. Three covers were carried. PN-9 RODGERS \JMITH & BKONTJl. • 1925 • Two Navy Flying Boats took On July 14th Ernest L. Smith and off from their moorings at San Pablo, Emory Bronte flew from California to California and headed for the Hawai.ian the Islands. Failing gas supply, led them Isls.nds. Within an h o u r one .was to a heavY landing on ·Molokai . lslanrl forced down. Commander John Rodgers, (where the leper colony is located). • PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS carried a oay load of unofficial covers on their experimental flight to Honolulu, April 16th; 1935 .. e OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE e AMERICAN AIR. MAIL SOCIETY Tl-IE AIRPOST JOURNAL • AUGUST, 1936 VOL. VII, NO. 11 e ISSUE 76 lOc PER COPY 3 Unikd 1'late4 ~ TRANS-PACIFIC COVERS . .... v~··-.,~;•·•, *Fi RST FLIGHT*::' PEARl HARBOR TO MIDWA'(JSLAND ANO 1lltTU.RN 11y Patrol Sqd115. 1,4;6,S &. l Oi .U•S· NIYJ ,M,._'I' 9HrTO 25TH.-19;315; . FLEET MANEUVERS !93S · I c~:~~ 4p!~~o"'~.~~~:6:o~'!". ~Jlis :~tlH\~;h·~~---~S:ttvl~~:: i:n __ -'._:_·--_·:>- -_ > u ..s. NAVY .MAS.S~ri' "FLlGHT • VP SQlfADRON IO . San Fraildsi:o; California :ro Pearl HarJ>or, Ha1Vaii · JAN(•AltY ,' l?U· ··~~ .. :;>~ 1'\"f""ill"l~o VI>.l O~F· · +'•~~o;h F".-~/';i<: to;,< J,,}:r,~_;;~·-~l,,!-TX'han ~·... ~~~Vf'-·"·1- fNh~h:~-~l.. F~~ !~,.:: JOHNSTON ?!! lH.. e RARE NAVY TRANS-PACIFICS, carried un-officially by pilots or mem­ bers of the crews. Above: Carried 4,650 miles by plane. Pearl Harbor to Midway Island .and return. 1935 Fleet Maneuvers, May 9 to 25. A few covers carried for members of the West Coast Air Mail Society. Center: About 600 of these covers were carried San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, Jan­ uary 9-10, 1934, VP Squadron 10. Below: Pearl Harbor-French Frigate Shoal­ Johnston Island-Pe~rl Harbor. Advance Base Operations, November 1935 -Covers courtesy Richard L. Singley, 4 AUGUST 1936 DOLE AIR RACE August 17th: the Dole Alr Races. 14 ships were entered for the trans-Pacific Derby. 8 wheeled to the starting line. The eight took to the air, but four turned back. Four went on. Two arrived two were lost. GOEBEL & DAVIS Art Goebel with Lt. William C. Davi& navigating made the distance in 26 hours 17 minutes. They won $25,000 first prize. 8 letters were carried; 1 has shown up among collectors: $350.00. JENSEN & SCHLUTER Martin Jensen with Paul Schluter navigating finished second in the Dole Race and won $10,000. SOUTHERN CROSS KINGSFORD-SMITH, ULM, LYONS, WARNER · • 1928 • Capt. Kingsford-Smith, Co­ pilot Ulm. Radio-op. Jim Warner and Navigator Harry Lyons took off from Oakland in a reconstructed tri-motor Fokker the SOUTHERN CROSS bound e TRANS-PACIFIC AIRPOST for the Land Down Under. Power from STAMPS - Above: Australia 3 Wright Whirlwind motors. May 31 to honors Kingsford Smith, fam­ J"une 9. Oakland-Wheeler Field-2,408 ous Pact:ic filer. Below: The Capt. Pattist stamp used for mi. 27 hrs. 25 mn. Barking Sands-Suva the .. Java - Australia .. experi­ -3,138 mi.-34 hrs. 33 min. Suva-Bris­ m f-ntal flight. bane--1,762 mi.-21. hrs. 13 mn. 1500 letters carried: 5c oz.. 3c additional oz. • 1932 • 2 stamps issued by New Caledonia. SOUTHERN CROSS • 1934 • Squadron VP 10 under Lt. KINGSFORD-SMITH, ULl\<I . ' Comm. Knefier McGinnis; 30 men: flew • 1931 • Commemorative stamp is­ in 6 Long Range Consolidated Flying sued by Australia: Boats from San Fr.ancisco to Pearl Har­ bor on January 9-10 in 24 hrs. 5 mins. Kingsford-Smith in the SOUTHERN 600 pieces carried: CROSS made the first nonstop flight ove.r Covers bear cancellation of Fleet the Tasman Sea, Melbourne, Australia to Air Base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jan. 11, Perth, New Zealand, in July. 1934. (12:30 P .M.) Number of covers carried unknown. September 9-10 Kingsford-Smith and LADY SOUTHERN CROSS KINGSFORD-SMITH, NEVILLE Ulm in the SOUTHERN CROSS flew from Sidney to· Christchurch. Australia to New Sir Kingsford-Smith and Capt. P. G. Zealand. Neville. navigator. in a Lockheed Altair, 10 covers carried: about $100. the LADY SOUTHERN CROSS, retraced his historic voyage across the Pacific. PATTIST Oct. 20 to Nov. 4. Captain Pattist fiew out of Batavia Brisbane to Suva-1762 mi.-12 hrs. (Java) on May 11th carrying 17,000 pieces Suva to Wheeler Field-3138 mi.-24 of mail on an experimental flight to hrs. 45 mins. Australia. The flight was completed by Wheeler Feild. to Oakland-2408 n'l.i.- way of Koepang (Timar). For this flight 14 hrs. 5ll rnins. the Dutch Indies on April 1st 1931 isl;Ued 2 types covers carried - some with a special stamp limited to 35,768 copies. Anzac. Fiji and U. S. Parks 6c stamps. 51 of small type reputed for sale in BIARRITZ Jan. 1935. DE VEREUIL STAR OF AUSTRALIA • 1932 • Baron De Vereuil, with ULl\f, LITTLl':JOHN Munch and Deve left Paris on March 8 . flew to Australia. On April 5th they December 3 Flight Commander Charles set out in tha airplane BIARRITZ from mm with Co-pilot George Littlejohn and Brisbane to New Caledonia. 30 miles Navigator-radioman J. L. Skilling took from Numea. at Tontonta, they crashed. off from Oakland in a British monoplane 10 covers carried. the "STAR OF AUSTRALIA" bound for 5 THE AIRPOST JOURNAL Australia •• navigation went haywire and .June 15 from Pearl Harbor to Midway islands were missed. The plane and I. 1.323 miles. crew were lost in the ocean. Inched on to Wake I. To Guam. Large quantity of mail and packages­ In Oct. R. 0 . D. Sullivan was in com­ excess returned before flight. mand as the CLIPPER flew again from AMELIA EARHART Alemada to Guam and back. 10,000 pieces on first flight; $1 to $2.50 • 1935 • On .January 11 Amelia Ear­ paid to have covers flown. hart in a Lockheed Vega took off from Wheeler Field bound for the mainland. CHINA CLIPPER The papers gave tlle flight a big build­ November 22 the ClflNA CLIPPER. Ed. up; on schedule she hit the mainland and Musick In command took off on the first set down at Oakland. Time was 18 hrs. trip over the new Pan-American course. 16 mins. Some covers were carried. Pearl •Harbor, Midway, Wake. Guam, TT. S. ,NAVY Manila. May 9th. 200 Navy men in 46 Navy On the first trip the P. o. made $47,000 planes took off from Honolulu to fly to or 224%. 85 nouches of over 110.oou the Midway Islands. 1323 miles off. Cen­ covers fiown. Agency in Washington sold sorship was clamped down on their 1.1.048 stamps ($2,762) and 10,910 first­ movements. days covers for the stamp. Plane No. 2 of Patrol Squadron 6 car­ This is no fly-by-night air trip In which ried a few covers unofficially, from the covers are flown and cancelled. signed Fleet Air Base at Pearl Harbor. They and then sold for what the flier and covered a distance of 4,650 miles. owner can get. It's the result of the slowly but steadily accumulating snow­ ORIENTAL CLIPPER ball. It's' big business. Captain Ed Musick and his crew in the ORIENTAL CLIPPER during the Plain to read between the lines is the summer blazed a trail across the Pacific fact that the early experimental flights -Pearl Harbor-Easter I. of the Mid­ were partially financed by cover collec­ ways--Wake 1.-Guam. That last hop to tors. Stamps have been issued to com­ Manila was held up for CHINA CLIPPER memorate outstanding flights.