AAIIRRPPOOSSTT JJOOUURRNNAALL The Official Publication of the American Air Mail Society February 2017 Volume 88, No. 2 Whole No. 1040 February’s Featured Article — Iranian Double Atlantic Rate Discussion Page 52 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 1914 Pioneer 81 Clayton, NM. Four known to exist! . $4,000 1928 catapult, Scott 518, 648 . Ile De France $350 Germany 1930 Circuit flight Copenhagen drop, damaged mail. S.68Bd . $425 Vatican City 1951 Rome crash cover with official outer envelope. $400 Zanzibar 1934 10th South America Flight sent to London, then Germany to Brazil S.28Aa . $1,750 Afghanistan 1933 4th South American Flight. Sent via Turkey to Brazil (S.223 B) . $3,900 Algeria 1933 2nd South America Flight sent to Brazil S.214Aa. $575 Austria 1931 catapult picture postcard Graue K73C w/ B87, rotary . $575 Bahamas 1929 (January 29) First flight from Nassau to Miami. The return address is the Royal Bank of Canada.Violet 2-line cancel "Air Service Nassau to Miami," backstamped Miami. Rare item in good condition! . $300 Belgium/Colombia 1931 SCADTA . $375 Brazil 1930 Pan Am Flight US C13, Rio to US, return flight to Seville . $1,000 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com FEBRUARY 2017 PAGE 45 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal — ARTICLES — Letters to Iranian Double Atlantic Rate Discussion ........................................................ 52 Robert Wilcsek the Editor The ‘LATI Substitute’ Service of Pan American Airways, Part 13 ................ 59 John Wilson More on an Unlisted Air France Cachet President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s National Air Mail Week Covers ............... 68 I am happy to report on a recent exchange of correspondence Bob Baltzell with Gérard Collot in reference to my article concerning a violet APJ Major Corrections to the New APS Manual of Philatelic Exhibiting cachet applied in Bahia (Brazil) upon arrival of airmail carried across the and Judging, 7th Edition ...................................................................... 73 Atlantic by Air France on the second westerly flight of the flying boat Jim Graue (“An Unlisted Air France Cachet,” Dec. 2016, 518-520). How Many Halverson C10 Bisect Covers were Created? ............................... 81 Santos-Dumont M. Collot states that when he and Alain Cornu sent their catalog, David L. DuBois Ligne to press in 1990, there were, indeed, a number of arrival cachets Mermoz, — NEWS — they had not yet taken into account. AAMS Election Year 2017 .............................................................................. 84 I now have in hand the supplement to their catalog, published in 2012, which reproduces six of these arrival cachets (on page 25), includ - ing the one identified in my article. I will be happy to send a copy of this — COLUMNS and FEATURES — page to anyone interested in the cachets, which were applied in 1934 and An Interesting Cover ....................................................................................... 83 A Favorite Cover ............................................................................................. 80 1935 at the following cities: Santos, Bahia, Pernambuco, Natal, Santiago, Airmail Elsewhere in Print .............................................................................. 78 and Pelotas. Letters to the Editor ......................................................................................... 47 Dan Gribbin A Note from the Editor .................................................................................... 49 [email protected] President’s Message ........................................................................................ 50 — DEPARTMENTS – Airmail Room Has Much to Offer APJ Ads ........................................................................................................... 88 I respectfully disagree with President Graue in his January’s Membership Report ......................................................................................... 85 president’s message on page 6. The American Philatelic Society did not give away the desk used by Jack Knight. The desk was on loan, and on Editor and Advertising request per the terms of the loan agreement, was returned. Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 vcanfi[email protected] While we would love to have someone who wishes to maintain Staff Writers and Columnists the room, I also think it is unfair to say that it “harbors little to nothing of Joe Kirker Alan Warren Steve Turechek AAMS or airmail history or memorabilia.” The room includes a cover Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer from the world’s first airmail flight, an original wooden propeller, the Copyright 2017 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame plaque, bound volumes of the lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. Airpost Jour - and many airmail posters and prints. The room also has a direct con - Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send nal address changes to American Air Mail Society, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787. Domestic sub - nection to the library with our aerophilatelic holdings immediately adja - scription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and cent to the room. do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. The room is a significant attraction for visitors to the American PAGE 46 AIRPOST JOURNAL FEBRUARY 2017 PAGE 47 A Note from the Editor Vickie Canfield Peters AAMS treasurer Steve Reinhard recently forwarded this note to me from a member in California. He writes: “I want to let you know that I seriously considered resigning from the association. I am a stamp collector, although I do collect some covers in special areas. However, in the four years I have been a member, I do not remember a single article on airmail stamps. “When I first joined, I bought the four-volume set, hoping to find even a section focused on airmail stamps. I found nothing, so the associa - Philatelic Center. Thanks to a tion is not providing me with anything that furthers my knowledge of generous donor, it has also been airmail stamps. equipped with special audiovisu - “Here is a recent experience I have had. I purchased an EE plate al equipment so that it can be block of C22 (Martin M-130 ‘China Clipper’) wide tab. I wanted to see if used for seminars with speakers there was any information on this rarity. I asked the APS library to do a and instructors from anyplace in literature search. The head research librarian told me he could only find the world with an internet con - two articles, the most recent in 1983 in the APS journal. Here is an exam - nection. For example, it has been ple for an interesting article written by an expert, which I am not by a used to allow about 10 guest long way.” In the 10-plus years I’ve been editing the this is just one instructors for a Summer Seminar APJ, course presented by the local Mt. more comment on content to add to the pile. There’s too much about Nittany Philatelic Society for a zeppelins, there isn’t enough about zeppelins, too many articles on for - speaker from Mexico City and is eign airmail, not enough about foreign airmail, too much of this and too routinely used for the bimonthly little of that. philatelic librarian meetings. A I am not a stamp collector and what I know about aerophilately few photos are included, but we I’ve gleaned from editing this journal. I rely solely on submissions from hope AAMS members will also members and other aerophilatelists. In the last two years, I have had visit and take a look for them - more articles from non-members than in previous years and I know at selves. least one joined the society. That’s good news in a time of declining Ken Martin membership. I can remember only two articles I’ve rejected in all those Chief Operating Officer years and those because they were more about aerospace than aerophi - American Philatelic Society lately. So, if you want to see more of something in the (and AAMS member) Airpost Journal, than YOU have to write about it. Our member in California could research the stamp to which he refers in his letter and I’d gladly publish We Welcome Letters to the Editor. Write Yours Today! an article about it. Not everyone who writes is an expert. Some authors PAGE 48 AIRPOST JOURNAL FEBRUARY 2017 PAGE 49 just discover a curious or interesting cover or have a question about a blood” as directors, bringing in different perspectives and ideas to rein - stamp, cachet or routing instruction. Not all articles are long, scholarly vigorate our thinking and challenge us with fresh alternatives for setting pieces, although I appreciate them when I get them. I personally like the future direction and policy aimed at enhanced membership involvement two- or three-page articles about something interesting, like an event or a and benefits. person and how that event or person interacted with or effected the air - If you are interested in serving on one of our committees, or, mail. more importantly, if you would consider standing as a candidate for an Consider this another plug for articles. Remember, I can’t pub - AAMS officer or director