November 2018 Issue 29 TAKE OFF! AIR29 1934 Australia - New Zealand airmail carried in ‘Southern Cross’ and signed by crew members Charles Kingsford Smith, ‘Bill’ Taylor, ‘Tommy’ Pethybridge, John Stannage, and passengers Jack Percival and S.E.Neilsen. YOURS FOR £600 £100 per month for 6 months ARO117 £600 01303 278137 Charles Kingsford Smith was a world famous Australian aviator whose notable feats include the first trans-Pacific flight between the USA and Australia, the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland, the first flights between Australia and New Zealand, and the speed record from Australia to London in only 10.5 days. Patrick Taylor was an Australian aviator who during WWI was commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps and awarded the Military Cross in 1917. Following the war he continued his career in civil aviation in Australia and joined Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm during several pioneering flights. During the Second World War he served with the ATA. John Pethybridge was an Australian aviation pioneer and co-pilot to Charles Kingsford-Smith aboard ‘Lady Southern Cross’ when they disappeared in 1935 above the Andaman Sea whilst attempting to break the speed record between England and Australia. John Stannage was the radio operator aboard the maiden east to west transatlantic flight which flew between Ireland and Newfoundland in 1930; under the pilotage of the famous Charles Kingsford Smith. When the triumphant crew returned they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York which stretched for miles. SEE MORE OF OUR FLIGHT COVERS ON OUR WEBSITE VISIT WWW.BUCKINGHAMCOVERS.COM AND CLICK THE ‘FLIGHT’ BUTTON www.buckinghamcovers.com NEW IN! ARA156 £50 1992 50th anniversary of Pan Am Survey & Special New York - Diego Garcia via Africa special hand drawn cover. ARA157 £50 1992 50th anniversary of Pan Am V5 Afrika Korps special hand drawn cover. ARI08A £30 1934 Imperial Airways London - Australia, our choice of Australian destination. ARB421 £50 1939 3rd London Stamp Exhibition, 750th anniversary of King Richard the Lionhart cover, with the four BA Airliner stamps plus George VI 1½d, London CDS. TCS825 £25 WWII Prisoner of War postcard, Kriegsgefangenenpost service. We have several examples available sent to locations across Europe, please ask for more details. ART173 £50 1980 Pan Am London - Houston, inaugural non-stop flight official cover. £19 per month for 5 months ARI01 £95 1932 Imperial Airways Croydon - Cape Town with a superb block of six George V 2½d. 2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR29 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Did you know? Earle is best remembered for flying the Earle Ovington & first US airmail flight on 23rd September 1911 aboard his Bleirot monoplane. the First US Airmail He flew from the Nassau Boulevard Aerodrome in New York for six minutes We have a lovely range of Earle Ovington signed covers with his until he reached the New York village special personal cachet added. A great opportunity for you to acquire of Mineola. The mailbag contained 640 a cover from the bygone age of the US postal service and a piece of letters and 1,280 postcards but due aviation history. to the lack of space aboard he had to SGO026B £75 balance the bags on his knees making it £25 per month impossible to land. Earle was forced to for 3 months Earle Ovington drop them to the postmaster below and signed 1930 Airmail they subsequently split open (not the cover with Washington most thought out part of the plan!). postmark and Earle’s special cachet. SGO026C £75 £25 per month for 3 months Earle Ovington signed 1930 Tribute cover with Inglewood California postmark with an LA Airport SGO026F £75 £25 per month for 3 months cachet as well as Earle’s special cachet. Earle Ovington signed cover with Honolulu postmark and his own special cachet. 1948 Sky Merchant World Flight After WWII the Atlas Supply Company purchased a Douglas C-54 airliner which they converted into a ‘flying showroom’ for Atlas products. The plane was branded as the Atlas Sky Merchant and to generate publicity for their showroom in the sky they organised an around the world flight. The company worked with the American Air Mail Society to organise 4,500 air sheets to be carried on the flight. The flight left New Jersey on January 5th 1948 and was piloted by Captain Ivan Smirnoff, a decorated WWI Russian fighter ace. The ARA136 £100 £25 per month for 4 months flight visited 29 cities, all of which postmarked each of the air sheets. www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 Australia & New Zealand First Flight ARO39 £30 1938 Carpenters Airways Australia - New Guinea. ARO26 £30 1934 Australia - New Zealand with first ARO83 £30 official air mail cachet, carried in ‘Faith 1934 New Zealand - Australia, in Australia’. special flown cover by Kingsford Smith which lists his completed trans-Tasman crossings. ARQ06S £50 1952 Qantas Cocos Islands - Sydney signed Captain K.Jackson. ARO84 £25 1931 Australian National Airlines Hobart - Melbourne. ARQ43A £100 £25 per month for 4 months 1953 Qantas Sydney - Bangkok signed Captain J.Pollock and Co-Pilot A.Myers. Flexi-pay available on all items! No interest charged - payment options up to 12 months ARQ48S £75 £25 per month for 3 months 1953 Qantas Bangkok - Sydney signed Captain J. Haylock. 4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR29 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Catapult mail ARE226FD £100 £50 per month for 2 months 1929 Carried on steamship SS Bremen with ‘Katapultflug vom D. Bremen des Norddeutschen Lloyd nach Bremen 2.8.1929’ cachet. ARE226FE £100 £10 per month for 10 months 1929 Carried on steamship SS Bremen from Germany - New York with ‘Schnelldampfer Bremen Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen’ cachet. ARE226FF £100 £20 per month for 5 months 01303 278137 1929 Carried on steamship SS Bremen from Germany - EMAIL: [email protected] New York with ‘Schnelldampfer Bremen Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen’ cachet. ARE226GF £100 £25 per month for 4 months 1932 Carried on steamship SS Bremen from Germany - USA with green ‘D.Bremen Southampton’ cachet and special Bremen New York postmark. ARE226GC £100 £10 per month for 10 months 1933 Carried on steamship SS Europa with rectangle ‘Dampfer Europa Southampton’ and ‘mit luftpost Koln flughafen’ cachets. www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 Helicopter Flight ARH01M £25 1948 Great Yarmouth - ARH06M £25 Peterborough. 1948 Peterborough - Great Yarmouth. ARH09M £25 1948 Lowestoft - Peterborough. ARH08M £25 1948 Norwich - Peterborough. ARH11M £25 1948 Dereham - Peterborough. ARH21 £10 1956 10d stamp, our choice. 01303 278137 ARH22 £10 EMAIL: [email protected] 1953 8d stamp and Helicopter Service cachet. ARH34A £10 1934 Windsor - London (route of the first UK aerial ARH23 £10 post in 1911), 1954 9d stamp and Helicopter Service cachet. flown by autogiro. 6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR29 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] ARJ04 £30 1937 Jersey Airways, Jersey - London first flight. ARJ23 £15 1985 Schneider Trophy Race with Jersey postmark ARJ68 £10 and signed by the pilot P Shipton. 1975 BA Jersey - London, first passenger flight. ARJ74 £25 1969 30th anniversary of the first Guernsey - ARJ73 £25 England airmail, 1969 30th anniversary of the first Jersey - pilot signed. Guernsey airmail, pilot signed. ARK06 £20 ARJ75 £10 1934 KLM 1972 Intra Airways Airways Jersey - Liverpool - Caen first flight. Rotterdam first flight. SUPERB FIRST FLIGHT COLLECTION ARA74 £300 £50 per month for 6 months Wonderful collection of 33 different first flight covers from the 1970s of a variety of companies and all for different flights. The majority are Air Anglia covers (18) but you will also receive those from Dan Air, Laker Airways, Intra Airways, Aurigny Airways, British Midland Airways, and GWR. www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 ARG35 £30 1947 London - Wilhelmshaven, Germany airmail with interesting typed ‘(23) Germany British Zone on the envelope - this coastal town was in the North West under British control after the war. ARP141 £100 £25 per month for 4 months Dieudonne Coste signed black and white photo featuring Coste and Maurice Belllonte, slight crease in top left hand corner of photo. Coste was a French aviators who in September 1930 completed the first westbound North Atlantic flight, flying from Paris to New York in 37 hours and 18 minutes. Want to spread the payments on ARS06A £60 these amazing covers? 1934 Highland Airways Inverness - Kirkwall with first air Don’t forget to ask about Flexi Pay! mail label, first day of air mail ordinary letter rate. Call 01303 278137 for full details. ARS100 £25 1936 British Airways London - Sweden first flight. ARS103 £50 1928 London - Stockholm, fifth experimental return night flight. ARS12 £60 1937 Kirkwall - Shetland via Aberdeen signed by Bernard Wilson (pilot of Highland Airways) and Captain E.G. Starling (Chief Pilot of Allied Airways). ARK23 £75 1929 KLM Berlin - Rotterdam illustrated card with two different red KLM cachets. 8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF AIR29 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] ARR109S £30 1934 Plymouth - Cardiff first flight signed by Captain Smye. ARR71 £15 1934 Liverpool - Birmingham first flight. ARR97A £25 1934 London - Liverpool first direct service. ARR92 £20 ARR91 £20 1934 Birmingham - 1934 Manchester - London last flight. London last flight. 01303 278137 EMAIL: [email protected] ARR135 £125 £25 per month for 5 months 1934 Six different first flight covers all with the coloured map illustrations. £30 per month for 3 months ARR37 £90 1933 Cardiff - Plymouth with prepaid 3d Great Western Railway value. Want to spread the payments on these amazing covers? Don’t forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Call 01303 278137 for full details.