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Volume 29 No. 12 Issue No. 341

CONTENTS .. For September, 1958 Articles The Aerial Steam Carriage . 340 Around i'he Perimeter of U.S.A. in -2

Hours .... .......... 342

A.A.M.S. 35th Convention .. .. .. . .. . .. .. .. .. . 343

A Legend In His Own Time 348

Convention Notes .. .. .... ............. .. ... 356

U.S. Airmail Sheets Good Property ....... 358

Award Winners 1958 Exhibition 363

El AI .................. 364

Regular Features C.A.M. News ................................... .

Airport Dedication News

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Official Section

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The ~~erial Stea1n Carriage (from the "Royal Albun1~~ early 1800s)

(Cour:tesy of Alexander D. Gage)

Far more interesting to the patrons of The Hoyal Album than any picture of love, or portrait of ladye faire, will be the representaHon of the stupend­ous invention of Mr. Henson, the Aer­ial Steam Carriage, which, in conse­quence of the proceedings in parlia­ment, to whom arpplication has lbeen made for An Act, and the extreme degree of ·curiosity arising from rthe novelty ·of the discovery, ihas !become the wonder of the day; and we feel that we shall be af·fording a great treat to the public, and well sustain­ing the ·character of our work, as be­ing the cheapest and best of the il­lustrated ·periodicals, in g1vmg a faithful and concise description of "The Ariel," the first carriage of The Aerial Transit Company.

·However unsuited a dry discourse on mechanism would lbe to our page, we hope, ·by stripping it of the usual scientific technicalities, to render our description of "The Ariel" as interest­ing as it is extraordinary.

Let our readers, ·then, first imagine a floor, or plartform a hundred and fifty feet long lby thirty feet wide. We are somewhat puzzled for a word which will accurately designate this main part of the machine. We have called it a floor or platform, merely because of its large area; and yet those terms are improper, except we divest them of peculiar meaning of weight or stability, for this expanded surface floating through the air real­ly performs the office of wings, though it has none of their virbratory motion - it has no joints; it is remarkably strong and sUff from end to end, yet of extraordinary lightness. It advances through and urpon the air with one of its long sides fore­most, that side being also a little raised. A tail of d'ifty feet long and of similar ·construction, is jointed to the mMdle of its hinder edge; and

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• under the tail is a rudder. Across its middle is a vertical web which answers the same purpose as the keel of a vessel, or more nearly of the fin on the back of some fishes -viz., it checks oscillation. All these differ­ent parts of the machine are con­structed with an especial view te the •combination of strength with light­ness, and are covered with silk or linen.

To the main expanse or wings which we have described, and imme­diately beneath it, are suspended the car and a small, light and very in­genious and powerful steam-engine; the latter ·actuates two sets of vanes or propellers like windmill sails, and of twenty feet diameter, situated at the 'back edge of the wings.

'The principal feature of the inven­tion, as far as the description has yet proceeded, is the very great expanse of its sustaining planes, which are Larger in propor.tion to the weight to 'be carried than those.of many birds; but if they had been still greater, they would not have sUJfficed of themselves to sustain their own weight, to say nothing of their rna­chinery and car.go - surely, though slowly, they would have come to the ground. We have remarked, however, that the maohine advances with its front edge a little rai!sed; the effect of w'hioh is to present its under sur­face to the air over which it is pass­ing, the resistance of which, acting on it like a strong wind on the sails od' a windmill, prevents the descent of the maohine and its !burden. The sus­taining of the whole, therefore, de­pends on the speed at which it is travelling through the air, and the angle at which its under surface im­pinges on the 1air in its fpont; and this is ex;actly the principle by which birds are uphe1d in their flight with but slight motion of their wings, and

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often with none. But, then, this result, after the

start, depends ent irely on keeping up .the speed, and there remains beyond that the still more formidable diffi­culty of first obtaining that speed. All former attempts of this kind have !failed •because no engine existed which was at once light enough and powerful enough to lift even its own wei·ght ·through the 1air with the ne­-cessary rapidity. ·Mr. Henson has re­moved this difficu•lty, partly by in­venting a steam engine of extreme lig1htness and efficiency, and partly by another and very singular device Which requires particular notice. It is perhaps necessary to add, tha.t any .degree .by which the requisite veloc­ity oon be obtained may be used in· stead o.f the iTIIClined plane, as for in­stance, a stationary steam-engine with .a level road.

All former inventors had supposed it necessary to carry in the machine itself all the power necessary to com­mence and susiain its flight. Hence some failed in their attempts, and others were deterred ifrom making any attempt at all. Nor does mechaR­ical art, even in its present advanced state, afford the means of over.coming the difficulty, so long as this view of the subject is adhered to. Na<ture and art, hawever combine to shO'W us that this difficulty may be sur­mounted: Mr. Henson, following their indications, empl•oys thi·s expedient. His machine fully prepared for flight, is started from the top of an inclined plane, in descending which it attains fue velocity necessary to susiain it in its further progress. That velocity rwould be gradually destroyed by the resistance of the air to the [or­ward •flight; it is, thei'efore, the office of the ·steam-engine and the vanes it actuates simply ;to repair the loss of velocity; it is made, therefore, only of the power and weight necessary for that small effect. Here, we ap­prehend, is the chief, but not the only merit and originality of !Mr. Henson's invention; and to this h appy thought we shall probrubly lbe indebted for

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the first successful attempt to tra­verse at will another domain of na­ture.

It would ·be easy to show that this principle, though disgluised in appear­ance, really dbtains in all mechanical action, and that the power which puts a machine in motion must be consid­ered distinct from that rwhkh keeps up that m·otion, we shall however, only refer .to the familiar instance af the clock, whi'ch is set going by draw­ing its pendulum to one side; it is kept going by the weight or spring preventing the decay of its motion. So •Mr. Henson sets his machine in

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motion by its descent down the in­clined plane, and keeps it so by his steam -engine.

Just so does a large bird often start from a high tree or rock. First, he makes a swoop downwards to acquire velocity; that .gained, it requires little effort to rise again and increase his speed. The violent efforts made by slow and heavy birds rwhen rising from the ground and the easy flight of the same birds after they have obtained sufficient velocity, show the operatioll and importance of the same pr'lliciple. Indeed, the whole is but a necessary consequence of the established mechanical axiom, that a body once in motion will ever con­tinue to move if hindering forces be taken out of the way.

HELP WANTED! The ·following questions all pertain

to Canadian Pioneer flights as listed in the AA!MS Catalogue, Vol. II, 1950 edition.

Can anyone give us any definite information as to the existence and wherea!bouts of any of the following Canadian Pioneer fligfuts?

1. #9 and 9B if franked with the burning dirigible stamp .with the nu­merals "25" in the corners.

2. #13 - February 17, 1919, Van­couver - Seattle.

3. # 14 - May 31, 1919, V~ctoria -Vancouver.

4. #18a - Sept. 29, 1919, Charlotte­town - Truro.

5. #23 - May 28, 1920, Toronto -Hamilton franked with the Grand Army of Canada stamp.

6. #26 - March, 1921, Vancouver -Seattle.

7. #26 - March 24-30, 1921, Peace River, Ft. Vermilion, Hay River, Ft. Providence, Ft. Simpson.

8. Any covers flown by the Laur­entide Air Service Sept. 11, 1924, ei­ther with .the special stamp with side roulette, or without it, but flown Sept. H.

The Canadian airmail study group will greatly appreciate any informa­tion. Replies should be directed to John C. Cornelius, 2309 Irving Ave. So., Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THE U.S.A. IN 18 HOURS

BY JET STAR

Twenty years ago this story would have made front page news with full headlines and extras. Now it must seem just one of the many aviation achievements of this age to which we have become accustomed.

The new Lockheed executive jet transport began a flight to fly around the borders of the U.S.A. in less than one day last June 17th. Through the cooperation of Pilot Ray J. Goudy, we now have the full set of covers postmarked June 17th. These in­clude:

1 - Pmk., Tacoma, Wash. 11 a. m. Flown from Edwards AFB, Cal. to McChord AFB, Wash. "1st leg of first flight around bhe peria:neter of the U.S.A. in less than one day," the pilot has written on the cover.

2 - Pmk. Westover Air Force Base, Mass. 1 p. m. Flown from IJ.VIcChord AFB, Wash. at 0126 PDT to Westover AFB 0714 overhead, 172-8 land. "2nd leg of flight around the perimeter of U.S.A. in less than a day."

3 - Pmk. OrLando,, Fl:a. 6 p. m. Flown from Westover AFB, Mass. 0828 PDT to McCoy AFB, Florida 1055 over, 1104 PDT l:and. "3rd leg of first flight around the perimeter of the U.S.A. in less than one day."

4 - Pmk. Edwards, Cal. ·5:30 p. m. McCoy AFB, Fla. 1204 PDT to Ed­wards A'FIB, Cal. 173H PDT. "Last leg of a very smooth flight above the weather."

5th cover. Same at Edwards, for full fli·ght. Flown from Edwards A!FB, McCoy to Edwards on June 17th, 1958. ''Around the U.S.A. in 18:00 hrs. with 14:50 hrs. in the air. Top speed 686 m.p.h."

With this jet transport's glorious one·-day flight and so many more jet planes coming oJf the lines- now for commercial use, rwe may expect many fine covers from here on.

- Harry A. Gordon

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A. A. l\1. S. 35th Convention By Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr .

• Despite all forebodings that the ily the best in the show, and the change in dates would affect attend- award to him was well deserved. We ance at the Philadelphia convention liked Robert Murch's pioneers - the in July, the three days' affair was ex- covers and the original photos. Our tremely well attended. Many told us own exhibit was based on a new that if the dates had not been chang- idea. We showed crash covers -one ed, they could not have come. eaoh year since the air servke start-

The first day was at the Philatelic ed in 1918. We had a hard time to Museum, where we spent a lot of complete it - the 1953 cover was a time studying the exhibits. Major real toughie. Herbert Rosen thad an Scherer, the curator of the Museum, un:'sual showing of the history of had a particularly rugged time, ·as he aviation - most enlightening. The had to set up our exhtb1ts, then sud- wonderful stamps of Brazil owned by denly replace them with a showing Her.bert Feist .caught our :!laney, as did of Ghana Cas the prime minister of early German air material of Dr. Max that country visited the museum on Kronstein. Perham Nathl had an un­extremely short noUce), take the usual display on '1How to Collect Air Ghana down, put our approximately Covers" - with many •good ideas 250 frames back, and then the day we suggested. 'l1here were nine aero­left. tak~ .ours down and set up a11.- gr~mme ~xhi'bi~s, ~ith E~ett Pet­other exhibit d'or a show the next day. er s showmg wmmng a th~gh award.

The •Muse11;m is scrubbed and pol- The story of C~inese aviation as. tol_d ished, and looks !better than we have by Ellery Demson had some beautl­ever seen it. We were particularly ful, colorful covers. We like Reg. impressed with the variety and qual~ A:ckland ,s propaganda leaflets -ity of materral sh&wn. The Post Of- o e d,oesn t see t~em very often. John fiee Department had several frames Myer_s Colombian ;ov:rs left us to show the evolution of the new 7•c droolmg - how we d hke . to own air mail stamp. Tom Matthews' Filpex sam; o~, 1Jhose,,920 cov:ers! Bill Kauf­Gold Medal collection was exhibited ~an s . Byrd ·co.llechon had many in the Court of Honor- not for com- mte:estmg polar Items- tough ones petition. We noted here particularly to fmd today.. The exhibits over-the Prof. Wise ,balloon cover of Aug. flowed to the ~asement. . . 17, 185·9 from La•fayette, Indiana; the T~e ·Post O~fiCe branch did a bnsk Buffaloo balloon cover, and one of the bu~n:;tess as time passed .- pleasant, very few Vin Fiz cards known He efficient men - the best m the Phila­had a display of the 5·c Beaco~ air delp~ia Post Office were assigned to mail, imperf. between, the & red and the JOb. bluE', also imperf. between, as well as The ·first and only business session the 1·5c map stamp impevf. between. took place that afternoon and was His 24c invert displayed is position fairly well attended. Various reports 84 of the original sheet. Then a 6c showed that the Society ·functions grange air mail envelope stamp was well. Membership up, witfrl a 10% super-imposed over the regular 3c increase in ·a year, more funds on purple envelope postage stamp. The hand, .financially in good shape. The 5c envelope air in black instead of sales mana•ger has done a lot better, blue caught our eye. Ori.gina1 die and the Society benefits. The Airpost proofs of tJhe Cl-2-3 st·amps were dis- Journal still spends most of the played, too. And this was only a funds (almost $5,000 this last fiscal small •part of what he owns. ' year) and still wants to grow. The

Robert Scherer's Iceland pioneer catalog~e committee reported and stamps, covers, and photos were eas- showed us 400 pages of the supple-

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ment, printed and -gathered. With only 100 or so pages to go, a Novem­ber first publication date seems reas­onable. The secretary reported sev­eral deaths, and the elevaHon to life members'hip of ~12 members who have belonged ot the A.A.M.S. for 35 years. Tlhese include WHliam E. Beam, Wil­liam T. Prinzing, Malcolm H. Ganser, A. M. rHard, Carl M. Becken, Francis J. Field, Walter B. Hausler, E. Mar­ion Wood, Elmer L. Beadles, W. W. Pound, Martin M. Shallenberger, and Sam Rodvien. We now number 1,079 members. The Jack Knight Air Mail Society, Chicago Area branch of the A.A.M.S., invited 1Jhe 1959 convention to come to Ohkago or Highland Park, one of its northern suburbs. Action will come later. Open !floor discus­sion followed on how to improve membership and services. 'Many ideas were advanced. The meeting broke up about 4 o'dock.

The Jamboree and benefit auction in the air-cooled Sheraton Hotel at­tracted many people. An open bar was the main attraction. The auction was called by George Kingdom, who did an outstanding job. There were 115 lots and whe1Jher the mood of those attending 'Or the quality of the material was the reason, the bidding really was spirited. Only 15 lots went to mail bidders. Over $450.00 was realized d'or the Society. Bidding was interspersed with drawings for door prizes, and many valuable gifts went to delighted members. Look at this impressive list of donors: Air France, American, Capital, Delta, Swissair, Braniff, Avianca, BOAC, !Pan Amer­ican, Nor.thrwest, TWA, Joe Martin, Frieda Bulger, Gerald Bookhop, and Emilio Quiros. At the banquet the next night, everyone had a bag of loot, ·and at the lun~heon the next day, it continued.

Wednesday, more 1bull sessions and more people at the Museum. A large attendance at the banquet made for a pleasant evening. 'Bernard Davi•s em­ceed the affair, and introduced cele­brities and lesser lights. J•ohn Smith and Florence Kleinert presented char­ters to the Metropolitan Air Mail

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Cover Clu!b, through its president, Sam Goldsticker. A charter for the Rocket Mail Society was exhibited and will be sent to GeoDge Ritter in Tampa, Fla. George Kingdom !had a few remarks to make, and presented an honorary life membership to Franklin Bruns, and in turn, was sur­prised to receive the same recognition himself a short time later. :Bart Gat­chell presented the report of the Ex­hibit Jury, and much satisfaction at the results seemed apparent. A com­plete list is shown elsewhere in this issue. Frank Bruns made an informal speech on his jdb, and told what t!he Post Office Department is doing for philately. His friendly and warm talk did much in the line of .pulblic rela­tions. How they prepare for a first

. day of issue service, and the problems of handling 10 on July 31, and one on August 1st came in for attention.

The next morning PoStmaster Thomas of Philadelphia sold the !first sheet of stamps to \President John Smith, amid popping flash bulbs, and the public sale began. At the airpol't on the wazy- home. At the airport on the way home, this writer bought all the papers and there was our photo­genic president I>aying out seven dol­lars.

Long lines of buyers kept the stamp -clerks busy. One of the men assigned to hand cancel covers was not there, so this writer and others stepped in the breach to help. If your covers were neatly canceled, praise us. It's a tough job. We bought $68.00 worth of the 7-c stamps d'or the society, af­fixing some on luncheon pDograms, covers and what have you. The so-: ciety enjoyed a brisk sale of its 3 cov­ers with eaCih day's convention cancel and the first day on the luncheon pl'ogram. Treasurer Ruth Smith re­ports a complete sell-out- !but says she still has some luncheon programs left at 50c each. We know- we help­ed stamp and cancel over 1500 of them.

The luncheon at the Slheraton was the best attended function. Airlines represented were Pan American, TW 4, >Delta, Flying Tiger Line, Aaix-

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co, Eastern, Riddle, Northeast, Na­tional, American, At1ant1c Aviation Corp., and Air France. 'Dhese repre­sentatives wore the red, white and blue vests of the "Or.der of the Vest", a limited organization of people con­cerned with the movement of air mail.

George Kingdom presided; John Smith welcomed the conventioneers, Raymond A. 'I1homas •greeted us for the Philadelphia Post Office, and dis­tinguished guests were recognized. Howard Brooks .gave a short <talk on behalf of the airlines, and inducted L. Rohe Walter in the "Order of the Vest" - a rare event - and the vest fitted perfectly. IMr. Walter then gave a talk on the functi-ons of his depart­ment, and told of the propaganda value of a postage stamp. He deviat­ed from 1his prepared ta1k to dwell on airmail activities and told how his department welcomes the cooperation of societies such as ours. At the end of his talk he made presentation of souvenir albums of full sheets, auto­graphed by ~ostmaster General Ar­thur Summerfield, to the following:

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President United States.

John J. Smith, President A.A.M.S. Ruth T. Smith, Sec'y and Treasurer Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr., Editor

Ail'post Journal. Geor.ge ·W. Angers, Past President Geovge D. Kingdom, Past President L. B. Gatchell, iPast lPrestdent Bernard Davis, Vice President Ray<mond A. Thomas, Postmaster,

PhUadelphia. William H. Buckley, designer of the

7c stamp. Samuel Marsh, artist who did let­

tering on the stamp. Also he announced that .ten such

a]bums were prepared for all pilots who have received the Air !Mail Fly­ers' Medal of Honor. Many are de­ceased, and the atbums will go to their next of kin.

After lunch some went back to the museum, !but this writer flew home to Highland Park, Ill.

It was one swell convention! We will show Convention photos

next month.

MEXICO Part III o£ the Sr. Robert Larranga

GOLD MEDAL COLLECTION WILL BE SOLD IN OUR AUCTIONS

SEPTEMBER 26, 27, 29, 1958 3000 Lots Including

1500 Lots of the EAGLE Issue By Districts and Printings

Fifty Photo Plates Catalogue Free on Request

BILLIG & RICH, Inc. 55 West 42nd Streei New York 36, N. Y. New 1958 Price List of PHILATELlC LITERA',I'URE 64pp available

50c Deductible from First Order

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P. 0. Box 595, Malden, Mo .

• There has 'been very little to chron- with a spur from Sidney to Omaha icle in the way of First FUghts thus via Imperial, Q.\IIcCook, Kearney, !Hast­far in 1958. However, collectors can ings ar"d Lincoln. take satisf·action from the recent de- 5-Central Nebraska will be served cisions of the CAB which will cause by another segment out of Denver ex­plenty of activity as soon as the vari- tending to Omaha via Cheyenne, ous changes and additions authorized Scottsbluff, Alliance, North Blatte, in these decisions become a reality. Grand Island and Lincoln.

In addition to the Great Lakes - 6-Northern Nebraska is to be served Southeast Service Case and the St. through an extension from Casper to Louis - Southeast Service Case, the Omaha via Dougl-as, Lusk, Ohadron, Civil Aeronautics Board has announc- Valentine, Ainsworth, iNord'olk, Co­ed its vote in the Seven States Case. lumbus and Lincoln. This involves local service by Fron- The above actually represents an tier Airlines, North Central Airlines extension of Frontier's service east­and Ozark Air Lines in the area em- ward as far as Omaha and Kansas bracing G.\llinesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wy- City. oming, Colorado, Wisconsin and Mis- Ozark Airlines -souri, with several new cities and ex- l..Extended from Des iMoines to !Mil-tensive route changes and extensions waukee via Cedar Rapids, Dubuque involved. The announcement does not and Madison by a new segment. represent the Board's final decision 2~New segment from Moline - Daven­which will come within the next few port-Rock Island to Minneapolis-St. months. However, tentative agree- Paul via Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and ment has been reached on the !follow- Rochester. ing awards: 3-New segment from Des Moines

Frontier Airlines - to Minneapolis - St. ·Paul via Fort 1-New segment from Denver to Dodge, Ma·son City, Austin - Albert

Rapid City via Cheyenne, Scottsbluff, Lea and Rochester. Alliance, Chadron, Hot Springs. 4-New segment from Sioux City to 2~New segment extending service Chicago via Des •Moines, Ottumwa,

from Casper to Bismar.ck via Newcas- Burlington and Peoria, largely cover­tie, Rapid City, Lemmon and Dickin- ing cities previously served by this son. route except the service between

3-New segment from Williston to Sioux City and Des Moines and rep­Bismarck via •Minot. The present seg- resents rearrangement of method of ment flown by Frontier between Wil- service to the cities involved. liston and Dickinson is to •be elimin- 5-This proposed new segment will inated. cover service from Chicago to Sioux

4-Southern Nebraska will be served City and Omaiha, operating from Chi­by a ·segment operating from Denver cago via Rockford, Duibuque, Water­to Sterling, •Sidney and North Platte loo, Fort Dodge, thence to Sioux City

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and Omaha, diverging at Fort Dodge to the latter two cities.

5-New segment from Kansas City to Moline - Davenport - Rock Island via St. Josep'h, Kirksville and Bur­lington.

7-New segment from St. Louis to Quincy - Hanntbal.

8-0maha to Sioux Falls segment via Norfolk, Sioux City and Yankton.

9-Sioux .F·alls to Waterloo segment via Spencer, Estherville and Mason City.

In additon, Moberly, Mo. will be added to present Segment #6 of this route as an intermediate point be­tween Columbia and Quincy. There are several cities new to air mail ser­vice involved in this award. We pre­sume that the ·Post Office Department will furnish official cachets for the first flights from these cities.

North Central Airlines -

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TJ:lis drawing is contained in a book, "Directorium statuum seu verius tri­·bulatio seculi", dedicated to Peter At­tendorn, and was published by uni­versity students in Strassburg in 1482, only twenty-six years after Guten­berg printed his Bible. The woodcut depicts a gondola type vessel in full sail in which several individuals are crowded. The original size is 3lh" x 5" and is entitled "IMonopolium et so­cietas vulgo Des liech tschiffs".

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A Legend In His Own Time . ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMAS, A BRAZILIAN IN PARIS, CAPTURED EAJRLY AVIATION PRIZES AND WAS FIRST INTERNATIONAL AVIATION HERO

By Matthew J. Bruccoli

• <Reproduced with permission of his interest in human fHght. W. R. Grace & Company, from the A game played lby Bmzilian child-Grace Log). ren when Santos-Dumont rwas a child

The world's first international av1- on his father's •coffee plantation in ation hero was a dapper, supremely Sao P.aulo was called "Pigeons Fly." self-confident young -Brazilian named One child would shout "Pigeons fly!" A!Lbert Santos-Dumont. Such was his or "Eagles fly!" and so on, and if the fame that rwhen the news of the ibird or animal were one that did fly Wright brothers' success at Kitty the other ·children would raise their Hawk, North Carolina, was first re- hand"'. Alberto liked to recall that he leased on December 18, 1903, the paid often for raising his hand to headline in the Dayton· (Ohio) Daily "!Men fly!" News read: Six months before the Wright

Dayton Boys Emulate Great brothers made their successful pow-Santos-Dumont ered, heavier-than-air flight, Santos-

That this phraseology indicated Dumont had conditioned civilization scant comprehension of the Wrights' to the plaus~bility of the air as a accomplishment in no way minimizes proper thomughfare for practical .the esteem in which the fantastic transportation.

_ ~razilian was held 'by all people, in- He did th~s by so ma·stering his . ·eluding the Wrights' own co~citizenry. elongated, gasoline~powered balloons

It ·comes to so few men to be leg- that on June 23, 1903, he- could fly ends in their own time. One of these, from 'his base in Neuilly, cross the certainly, wa·s Santos-Dumont. Seine, go down the Champs Elysees,

'Slight of figure - he weighed no turn in to Rue Washington and stop more than 96 pounds - and with his for coffee at his apartment, anchor­characteristic Panama hat, as 'befitted ing the balloon at his door! a brasileiro resident in Paris, his pro- He confessed to small patience with digiously high collar and his trouser the theortsts who fearlessly predict cuffs rolled well up aibove the ankles, great scientific achievements but :he was as much a part of Paris as the keep their own feet safely dry. His Ave de Triomphe. own method was to enter physically

With pride and affection, Paris en- into the region he had determined to couraged 'his meanderings lite11ally up conquer; but in doing so he did not and down her streets and boulevards forego his demitasse. On 'his first as­in his dirigtble balloons, for.giving'him, cension in a spherical 'balloon in 1897, it would seem, an occasional toppled among the accouterments that he took chimney pot. -::. pains to •have with him in the wicker

He led the spirit' of the time. His gondola was a lunch of hard-boiled acts of incredible daring, debonairly eggs, roast beef, chicken, cheese, ice and naturally executed, induced cream, fruits and cakes, champagne, countless others to follow who, in coffee and Chartreuse. their turn, 1became the immortal rpio- The modern, bustling airport on the neers of aviation: Bleriot, Farman, edge of the Esplanada do Castelo in Voisin, even the Brothers Wright. Rio de Janeiro !bears proudly the From the time that he •saw his first name of the man who built the balloon ascension at a fair in Sao world's very first aivport at Saint­Paulo in 1888, he pursued tirelessly Cloud near Paris more than a half-

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Sanios-Dumont Monument at :the Rio de Janeiro · Airport

century ago. The day would come, Santos-Dumont often said, when spe­cial fields and platforms would be needed for the. accommodation of f•ly­irng machines. And so, ibeing one not to wait for the !future, he erected an aerodrome 100 feet long and 36 feet high, to house his famous steerable balloons and avoid the inconvenience of operating from the oBotani.cal Gar­dens.

Only iby recalling the Charles Lind­bergh reception in Paris in 1927 can we appreciate something of the tre­mendous readion, the frenzied c::ele,­brations that followed the news of Santos-IDumont's ·gammg of the Deutsch Prize on October 19, 1901. We say only 'something' of the reac­tion, because Lindbergh had been un­known.. Santos-Dumont was already the darling of Paris and had, in 1900,

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been awarded the "Encouragement Prize'' -the -annual interest on 100,-000 francs - d'or promoting aeron­autics. He gave this money to the Aero Club of France, to be given to the first aviator to Hy around the Eif­fel Tower from a take-off in Saint­Cloud. Such a prize already existed,. offered by IM. Deutsch de la Meurthe;-: but its ·too severe conditioons included: a preposterous 30-minute time-limit for the flight.

A!bout a year later, in 1901, the un­conditional prize was yet to be won, much less the impossilble Deutsch award. So Santos-Dumont mounted the flimsy cat-walk of his dirigilble balloon No. 6 at Saint-Cloud and steered a course .for the EiJffeol Tower. It was not to win -ihis own prize, but to fulfill the stringent con­ditions of Monsieur Deutsch.

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On October 23. 1906, Santos-Dumont flew his No. "14 bis'' plane on Europe's first heavie-r-than-air flight

All started well - for who could Santos-Dumont was the first to use do this thing more conf idently than a gasoline engine successfully in avi­Monsieur Santos? Yet when he came ation. He was the first to equip a broadside of the Tower, the petro- plane with :ailerons as we know them. leum motor sputtered and the lbal- He designed the "Demoiselle," one of loon drifted perilously close. Now the most successful planes of its day, Santos-Dumont -had a virtuosity with and freely relinquished the patents. motors, gained from an intense •boy- He was the first aviator to be lionized hood interest in the workings of the in both hemispheres. Sut he was despolpador and descascador and the something more. A young man of other machines on the coffee planta- wealth, he disproved tne cynical the­tion at home. ory that a•chievement requires abso-

While the throngs on the boule- lute indigence. vards craned their necks and gasped, He showed how a man of good will the agile aeronaut nursed the motor, may be a credH to his country wher­

::-running alternately up and down the ever he may be. He will alway•s have l ength of the catwalk to maintain his the special notice of Americans as one -balloon's level •course. H e rounded who developed a unique potentia ·the Tower, returned to Saint-Cloud weapon and offered it openly to the and became the first flyer to go some French who had 1been his cordial ·place and return under his own posi- !hosts, except that it was never to be ·.tive control. used in any war with :the United

He divided the award among his States of America or the United workmen and the Prefect of Police States of Brazil; he said these were ~ 'for the deserving poor." He also re - kindred. -ceived the prize that gratified ihim most, 100 Contos voted htm by the Brazilian Government and a gold medal inscribed "Por ceos nunca d'­antes navegados" (a paraphra·se of a iine by Camoens, the epic poet of the Portuguese-speaking world)_ Truly he had "s-ailed seas never previously navigated."

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He retired in 1908, h aving set the stage for a new era. I n .1928, having always longed for BrazE's multi-col­ored loveliness, he returned there to live out his days. He died in 1932. It may properly ;be said of AlJberto San ­tos-Dumont that his celebrity had the special quality of being well deserved .

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'MAIL SALVAGE IS SUCCESSFUL AFTER CRASH

Of interest to crash cover col­lectors is this Associated Press dis­patch which appeared in newspapers on June 1st. Do you h ave any of this mail?

When a Capital Airlines plane col­lided wit'h a military jet near Bruns­wick, Md., it was carrying 6'5 pounds of air mail.

The two planes disintegrated in the air, killing 12 persons. But postal inspectors who were on the scene within two hours salvaged about 63 pounds, or 97 per cent of the air mail load.

An .air mail operations report on this air mishap rwas made available.

There is a standard Post OHice procedure when a mail-carrying plane encounters trouble. At the first confirmed word of mishap, postal in­spectors from the nearest field office start for the scene and set up a "mail rescue" operation.

It is their responstbility to salvage every possible piece of mail and get it moving again by the fastest available means. .

In the case of the May 20 collision near Brunswick, the mail load was mostly ejected in midair.

Three of the mail pouches, loaded at Chicago, were iound intact near the crash scene. A .fourth 9-pound pouch, taken on at ,P ittslbur·gh, also w as found, •but it had ibeen r ipped open and letters had to •be gathered from the ground where they scat­tered.

,Machine p a r t s, in a ·parcel post p a c k a g e consigned to a Baltimore plant, were recovered undamaged from under the airliner's fusel·age.

When the hunt was finally aban­doned, only 2 pounds of mail remain­ed unaccounted for. On the following day, a farmer living 4 miles from the scene, and on the other side of a mountain found five air mail letters postmarked at Pittsburgh. He turned them in.

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Henri Farman, one of the great International Pilot License No. 5 French aviator pioneers, died at the (compared with the No. 15 and No. 16 age of 84 years. He began his flights of the Wright brothers), and he par­as early as 1907, four years after the ticipated in most of the •great aviation Kitty Hawk flights of the Wright metings of these early years. Special brothers, and as ear-ly as July 31, postal cancellations at these events 1908, had made his first flight demon- are v.:en kn~ to the collectors of · strations in the New York Area. His the PIOneer P~nod. . . . . . After the •First World War - m

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Quite recently France commemor­ated the SOth anniversary of Far­man's first flight of an aivplane over a one kilometre distance in a closed circuit. This was observed on Janu­ary 13, 195·8 with the post office us­ing a special ·concellation at the old Issy les Moulneaux Aivport, which is now used as ·an International Heli­port.

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1958 Convention Notes

Every time you go to a convention, you become better acquainted with people who have only been names be­f.ore. It was your editor's good d'or­tune to meet people whose warm and friendly greetings were more than adequate compensation for the rough times an editor goes through.

There was Tom . Matthews of Springfield, Ohiu, whose collections are fantastic. We had a common in­terest in Civil War affairs, as !his grandparents were com1batants. Then Harold 'Frankel of New York turned out to a dynamic young man who is scheduled for big things in aerophil­ately. His energetic personality is a great he1p in his recruiting activities for the hobby. Frank and Priscilla Bruns certainly added a sparkle to the gaiety that pervaded at the ban­quet. There is a friendliness we've always found at earlier A.A.M.S. con­ventions and this one was no excep­tion.

Then Fred Kessler, who flew up from Colombia to be with us, gave the writer a learned tour and lecture on some of the exhibits. His know­ledge is encyclopedic. Joe Clark, of Natrona, Pa., got up at the banquet, and remarked on how 'he was made to feel at home. His ideas on develop­ing interest for younger collectors will bear fruit. A long talk with John Myer of New York will result in some most interestiil!g stamp studies fm the A,P.J. He told us that Colom­bians had -come to him for informa­tion on the early Colombian airs. That's real recognition! Ral.ph Cole of Washington is a crash cover collec­tor we knew of but hadn't met. And as the ·writer collects these items, the bull session was tops, as you .can im­agine. And again it was our pleasure to see the gracious ilVIrs. Gradys Jen­nings, from Shaker Heights, Ohio. Slhe was most active in the auction ibidding. Herbert Rosen of New York left his wife home this year, but did enjoy the activities. !His old balloon print features the cover od' this issue.

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• Major Bob Scherer and his wife of the Philatelic ilVIuseum were flaJbber­gasted with his grand award in the exhi'oit. This is a real hard-!Working guy - and his activities at the Mu­seum added so much to our pleasure. _ Barney Davis was certainly on the ball there, too, as we have never seen the museum so spruced up. Barney's dry remarks as master of ceremonies really did him proud at the banquet; George Kingdom, indefatigable ihost as ever, contributed so much to this event. Year after year, he's in there pitching. And Bart Gatchell, a vet­eran of years, also continues 'his de­votion to the society. As a judge 'he spent seven hours at the exhibit on Tuesday and four more on Wednes­day.

As a sidelight we made a note on which exhi'bits we thought would win awards, and showed it to a couple of people before the awards were ·an­nounced. Believe it or not, we guess­ed all but one of the major awards, and had a good batting average. No thanks, no judging for us next time!

And then there were the insepar­a<ble three - Gerald • Bookhop of Schenectady, N. Y., Her.b Brandner of Brookfield, Ill., and Sam Goldsticker, of ·Bloomfield, N. J. These men did yeoman service and helped the con­vention move along. Sam's picture­taking was timely. :And then, of course, Doc Sneller, the phi}atelic photog, was everywhere. Charles has sent us dozens of pictures; you'll find some of them elsewhere in this issue. Grand guy, that noc! We saw Connie Gatchell snapping pictures with her new film that needs no flash light­ing. How did they come out, Connie?

Herman Kleinert of Fullerton, Pa., was the busiest man at the conven­tion. He did a land-office ibusiness on his Sales Department material. We know, because we brought 'home much material from his deep suit­case. And Florence Kleinert, who keeps Herman in line, had much to say on recruiting activities. She's a

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stem-winder. It was our pleasure to meet Bill Pluchel, Dale Bauer, and Howard Brooks, our :friends with the airlines, who have been so helpful to the society on occasion. They sported those fancy vests of the "Order of the Vest'' - an exclusive society, indeed. And John and Ruth Smith were ev­erywhere all the time, planning, wor­rying and working 'hard. To these two and George Kingdom, and to Barney Davis, we owe a debt of gratitude. They planned the convention. Tlhe Smiths are as devoted to the society as anyone we've ever observed, and they certainly deserve recognition for a tough jdb well done.

Harry Gordon, our jet cover specialist, put in a short appearance, and we really didn't get a chance to talk to him. And the same applies to Lou Fishbach, Gus Lancaster and Harry Levine, who were there and gone before we knew it. Smiling iBolb Fellers, Who maintains ihis never­missing-a-cop.vention record intact, came from Washington, ,and was en­joying the convention. It's always nice to see Bob. Jesse Johnson, of Norfolk, Va., was his usual genial self and did many people a service by distri'buting Air Force stamp first day covers. We enjoyed talking to Postmaster Raymond Thomas of Philadelphia and enjoyed hearing him tell of 'being at the field on the arri­val of the :first mail plane on May 15, 1918.

Philip Sondheim and iMr. and Mrs. Fred Bauer, of New York, spent a great deal of time looking at rare pioneer material Mr. Bauer brougJht .along. We suspect some of it ~hanged hands. Everyone crowded up to get the autograph of the designer of the new 7c air mail stamp, and his wid'e must have wondered aibout how crazy people can get. L. Rohe Walter, whom we met for the first time, is a charming gentleman, and we predict will do great things for the hobby. He departed from his prepared speech to give us interesting information on the future activities philatelically. We are grateful to him for the Post Of­fice Department presentation sta~p SEPTEMBER, 1958

a1bum that he gave to us along with others. It was a complete surprise!

Ernest Schuster of Kenmore, N. Y., was a very 'active bidder at the bene­fit auction. He's the man who bought the Allahabad, India cover of 1911, catalogued at $15.00, for $31.00. It was a superib item and well wortJh more than double catalogue value. The natty Paul Bugg, from Balti­more, was an old acquaintance we were glad to see, as were Walter Feeney, of Irvington, N. J., and Bill Kaufmann, from Bergenfield, same state. Frank Blumenthal, our F.A.M. column expert, came up from Wash­ington. We had been witJh him in Ap­ril, but it's always nice to see him. The map on his exhfbit must have taken many hours to draw. Wish we could use it. F.A.M. collectors need somethin,g like that.

Husband and wife combinations in­cluded the Norman Haacs from Hunt­ingdon Valley, Pa., the Zwislers from Holyoke, :Mass., and the Lud Rauben­heimers from Cranford, N. J. Our genial friend, Doc Southgate Leig>h, from Norfolk, Va., had some new jokes we had never heard before. iHe adds a sparkle wherever he is. We were glad to see our o1d friend, Trixie Zaun and her daughter, Teresa, who journed over from Haddon Heig'hts, N. J. John Henry Ogden, fmm over the river at St. Matthews, Ky., seem­ed to enjoy the convention, too, and Bernard Dattner, we think attended his first one. He's from !Philadelphia. Another Philadelphian we saw was Bill Mead, and Dr. Paul Cutright traveled in from neal'by Jenkintown. He tea,ches at Beaver College, the alma mater of the editor's wife, so we had something in common. Henry Buten ,commuted from neanby Mer­ion, too.

A word for the PhiladeLphia Post­office employees. Mr. Smith (no rela­tive of John) had charge of the branch postoffl.ce at the Museum, and his hand-picked men did a yeoman job of serving collectors on the first. A vote of special thanks to Messrs. McFadden, Schwartz, and Barone.

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U. S. AIR MAIL SHEETS ARE GOOD PROPERTY

By Jesse G. Johnson

There is a lot of talk in the Phila­telic Press about how much more you will earn if you 'buy United States Government Saving Bonds than if you buy U.S. mint stamps. We agree that the purchase of U. S. Saving Bonds is ·one of the finest ways of saving and we recommend that all who oan should do it. But we would also like to say that air mail stamps in sheets are mighty fine property as are all air mail stamps and air mail covers for a collector's own personal delight and satisfaction.

Just to prove that U. S. Mint Air Mail Stamps in sheets are valuable property, here is a complete quotat­ion sheet used with special permission of the Mint Sheet Brokerage Com­pany) which explains why :air mail sheets are very worth while. This includes "bid" and "asked" quotat­ions which Messrs. Scholl and Chad­wick of the Mint Sheet Brokerage Company have received and have quoted monthly in their 'bulletins.

You will notice that the total rfor the 1944 'bids or the stamps listed as $404.95 and the total for one sfrleet of each of the listed stamps in 195'8 was $649.80. In view of the d'aet that if you purchased these stamps when they were current in the post offices of this country, it makes it even better because their fa,ce value is just $190.05.

On the "Asked'' quotations, you will see that on most of those listed no sheets of air mail stamps were offered most of the time. This is not a very good group summary for comparison 1but that is the way the quotation sheets read and the reader should remember that one could not always have these air mail sheets available from the M i n t S h e e t Brokerage Firm.

In these summaries only stamps current for the whole fourteen years of this study are listed. We are equal­ly sure that United States air mail stamps issued prior to those listed

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have risen proportionally in price during the time of this report.

Your dealer will help you collect air mail stamps, and probably would quote you on all sheets listed here. A few collectors holding stocks of air mail stamps in sheets is a good thing, as there would not be too much tendency to corner the market such has been done with foreign stamps when only a few are issued and only a few people can obtain them, except at a very high price later.

The United States Post Office De­partment has issued large numbers of air mail stamps and there is no reason why anyone can not get them at the time of issue.

Salting away sheets of air mail stamps is only one facet of air mail collecting and while there seems to have 'been a slump in the past few years, now is the time to get back to collecting air mail stamps and covers again. You will ibe rewarded with genuine satisfaction over and over again.

CONVENTION NOTES -(Continued from page 357)

And then we met experienced Stan­ley HoZidewitz (ibet wf! spelled it in­correctly) from the ·Washington Post Office, ,who just returned from a cross-country trip, setting up d'irst day arrangements for July 31st.

There were other visitors, too -Margaret Kearney, Mrs. Pat Conroy, Tal Tyler, Elsie Jane !Murphy, Bar­bara Jorgensen, the William Beers, Edith ,Faulstich, Miss Helen Moore ,and Norman Hauck, head of the Phil­atelic Museum; Dave Lidman, editor of the American Philatelist; William Carter, and Bernard <Ring. We saw Stanley Rice only for a minute. Har­ry Lindquist we missed entirely. These men, with \Bart Gatchell, judg­ed the exh1bits. A tough job, that.

We wrote names down fast and furiously, but we're sure we didn't get them ·all. Ruth Smith sent us a list of registrants, but we had most of them. 'So to those we missed, we soy we're sorry.

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Mint Sheet Brokerage Company -"Bid" & "Asked" Quotations - Per Sheet =================~1944 1944 1947 1947 1951 1951 1955 1955 1958 Year Face Stamp . Bid Asked Bid Asked Bid Asked Bid Asked Bid

1958 Asked

·=================================================== 1.926 $5.00 10c Map 6.00 7.00 9.00 5.00 None 6.50 None 6.50 None

1926 7.50 15c Map Agency 10.00 13.50 7.50 10.00 9.00 None 9.00 None

1927 10.00 20c Map Agency 13.00 15.50 11.00 None 13.00 None 13.00 19.00

1927 5.00 Lindbergh 10c 6.25 7.00 15.00 None 12.00 None 14.50 None 14.50 None

1928 2.50 5c Beacon 6.00 8.00 12.00 12.50 9.50 None 9.50 None 9.50 14.75 ------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1931 2.50 Winged Globe 5c (rot.) 3.75 5.00 5.25 None 6.00 None 9.50 None 9.50 12.00

1931 2.50 Winged Globe 5c (flat) 6.00 None 6.25 None 12.00 None 12.00

1931 4.00 8c Winged Globe 4.10 4.50 6.50 None 5.75 7.00 5.75 None 5.75

1933 25.00 50c Graf Zeppelin 150.00 None 490.00 540.00 210.00 None 250.00 None 280.00

1934 3.00 6c Winged Globe 4.00 7.00 6.90 9.00 6.90 8.00 6.80

1935 12.50 25c Clipper 8.75 15.00 13.00 14.25 12.00 14.00 13.00 14.00 12.50

1937 10.00 20c Clipper 15.00 12.75 16.50 13.50 17.00 14.25 None 14.25

1937 25.00 50c Clipper 27.50 26.50 None 24.00 25.50 25.00 None 25.00

1938 3.00 6c Red & Blue 4.50 7.50 None 7.00 8.00 7.50 8.25 7.50

1939 15.00 30c Winged Globe 25.50 40.00 None 22.00 None 50.00 52.00 45.00

1934 8.00 16c Sp. Del. Blue 9.50 12.50 9.00 9.50 7.50 None

1936 8.00 16c Sp. Del. Red & Blue Agency Agency None 7.00

1935 32.00 16c Sp. Del. Farley 66.00 70.00 110.00 146.00 85.00

1948 5.00 5c N. Y. Jubilee 6.00

1930 4.55 Graf Zepps. (set of 3) 51.00 55.00 85.00 99.00 62.00

NOTE: All are sheets of 50, except N.Y. Jubilee in lOOs, and 16c Farleys in 200s. Agency indicates

stamps on sale at Philatelic agency in washington at face.

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9.00

10Q.OO

7.00

75.00

110.00 None 90.00

6.00 6.50 6.50

75.00 85.00 83.00

None

None

330.00

9.00

14.00

None

None

8.25

None

None

7.25

None

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* FOR Air Post New Issues

SANABRIA Of Course.

(PAMPHLET ON REQUEST)

Want Lists. also

and naturally

SANABRIA'S

AIR POST CATALOG

*

You Can't Collect Air Stamps

without Sanabria

Nicolas Sanabria Uo. Inc.

A. Medawar. Pres. 521 FIFTH AVENUE

NEW YORK 17, N.Y.

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BILLIG &: RICH TO AUCTION BRAZIL COLLECTION

Elsewhere in the Journal will be found the advertisement of Billig &

Ricch., Inc., of 5,5 West 42nd St., New Y~ork 36, N. Y., who will offer for sale in their October Auction the Grand Prix Brazil Collection of the late Senor Octavia de Carvalho. The collecUon will be broken into 2,000 lots and is one of the finest in exist­ence. It includes 25'0 1Bull's Eyes among other items, as well as one of the best collections of Brazilian air­mails, with many unique blocks and rare proofs.

Preceding this auction, during Sep­terber, Part III of the well known Mexico collection of Senor !Roberto Gavcia Larranaga wiH be sold. This collection includes 3,000 lots, no less than 1500 of whi0h consist of the Eagle issues, listed iby dicstricts and periods. Almost every stamp in these two sales will,be photographed. These sales may ~well be the largest in these specialized fields.

AEROGRAMMES

Check List of All

Air Letter Sheets

Issued During 1957

Free For Postage

WALTER R. GUTHRIE

SEA CLIFF NEW YORK

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MEMBERS OF THE ADVANCE BULLETIN SERVICE:

Your Help Is Urgenily Needed Due to the change in ilhe rate of

postal cards and the fact that all cards now in our possession are franked with only 2 cents, an addi­tional 1 cent per card is needed lby this department. Please make an es­timate of how many cards you have and remit the 1 cent per card to the Department Manager. If sending the new post card, kindly advise disposi­tion of cards already on file. Remit by whichever way is most convenient. Stamps will be affixed to the cards.

To members reading this who do NOT use the Bulletin Service, why not send a supply of self-addressed post cards to keep informed of future flights? It costs nothing - just the post cards. Send yours soon to Her­bert Brandner, 4038 Forest Ave., Brookfield, Ill.

AIR POST ISSUES

Are Frequently Offered

In Our Auction Sales

For example, one complete ses-

sion m our September 17-19

Sale another already sched­

uled for January 1959, Cata-

logues gratis

H. R. HARMER, Inc. The Caspary Auctioneers

6 West 48th Street New York 36, N. Y.

BRAZIL Another

GRAND P R I X Collection Of the late Sr. Octavia de Carvalho

Will Be Sold at Our Auction

1850 Lots Including

250 BULL'S EYES Also All Later Issues

Specialized with one of the best BRAZIL AIRMAIL collections Including V ARIG, SCADT A. etc. Proofs. Essays, Unique Multiples DeLuxe Catalogue will be ready in September. Auction will be held

OCTOBER 24. 25, 1958

BILLIG & Rich, Inc. 55 West 42nd Street New York 36, N.Y.

:SIIDPTEMiBER, 1958 PAGE 361

GREATEST 57-VARIETY OFFER EVER!

SUPER STOCK REDUCING & INTRODUCTORY SALE!

AIR LETTERS Collection of 57 all Different, Mostly Mint, including many

scarce, such as

KUWAIT, RYUKYUS, ANGOLA complete set, GREAT BRIT­

AIN Coronation, MOZAMBIQUE set of 9 varieties, AUSTRIA

Universal Postal Union, SOUTHERN RHODESIA Rhodes Cen­

tennial, BAHRAIN, LIBERIA 2 different, SAN MARINO com­

plete set of 7 varieties, PORT. GUINEA complete set, JAPAN

Universal Postal Union, MUSCAT Coronation, ST. THOMAS

and PRINCE ISLAND 4 varieties.

Retail Val•1e $36.00

ONLY $6.00 to new subscribers to my New Issue Service for airmail postal

stationery. You will receive this collection after you have sub­

scribed and have bought for the minimum of $2.00 .from the

first selection. Non-subscribers may obtain the collection at

$10.00.

Air letter price lists against 8c stamped and addressed envelope,

large airmail postal stationery lists 50c, deductible from your

first order of $2.00 or over. Special pages for mounting $4.50

per 50, postpaid. Minimum 50 pages. Pages fit any 3-ring

hinder. Sample 25c. Catalogues supplied.

This Is a Specially Low Priced Offer to Attract Beginners.

Take Advantage of It While It Lasts.

LAVA 854 INTERVALE NEW YORK 59

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Award Winners -1958 Airpost Exhibition At Philadelphia

• Best in the Show: Robert W. Scher- J. Smith, Philadelphia; Donald J. er, Philadelphia. "Vikings of the Bayler, Peoria, Ill.; Perham C. Nahl, Air," history of aviation in Iceland. Evanston, Ill., and George Ritter,

Tampa, Fla. rBest First Time Exh~bitor: James

S. Langabeer, Auckland, New Zeal­and. Newfoundland Air IJ.VI•ail Stamps.

Gold Medal, Division A: Herbert A. Feist, Glenside, Pa. IBrazil Air Mail Stamps, Errors, Proofs.

Silver Medal, Division A: Emmett B; Peter, Jr., Leesburg, Fla. Aero­grammes.

Gold Medal, Division \B: Robert W. Murch, Kirkwood, Mo. Early Classics Showing Flown Mail and .Photos.

Silver Medal, Division B: Joseph L. Eisendrath, Jr., Highland Park, Ill. Crash Covers. Ea<ch Year Since 1918.

Gold !Medal, •Division C: Max Kron­stein, New York, N.Y. Research Col­lector Pioneer Airmail.

Silver Medal, Division C: Ellery Denison, Takoma Park, Mary1and. Chinese Pioneer and Subsequent Flights.

•First awards went to Herbert Ro­sen, New York; W. J .Chamberlain, Corvallis, Oregon; James S. Langa­beer, Auckland, N. Z.; Clayton Good­pastor, Auburn, Calif.; 'IIhomas J. O'­Sullivan, Orange, Conn.; Ray Sinn, Bloomington, Ind.; 'Frank H. Blumen­thal, Washington, D. C.; ALbert Philip Cohen, New York City; G. Kaufman, Bergenfield, N. J.; J'dhn J. Smith, Philadelphia; Roland F. Kohl, New York, N. Y., and J'Ohn iN. IMyer, New York City.

Second award winners included: Aleksandre Veveris, Detroit, Mich.; Yand L. Chung, Wilmington, Del.; William N. Mead, Philadelphia; Rich­ard L. Singley, Lancaster, Pa.; Her­bert F. Brandner, Br-ookfield, Ill.; Gerald Boolcl:top, Schenectady, N. Y.; Ralph Cole, Washington, D. C.; John

SEPTEMBER, 1958

Third awards were received by: Fred Bauer, New York City; William M. Wilson, Philadelphia; He11bert E. Goodpastor, Auburn, Calif.; Ernest E. Schuster, Jr., Kenmore, N. Y.; Sol Whitman, New York City; Helen Kingsbury Zirkle, Secane, .Pa.; R. Lee Black, Des Moines, Ia.; Robert E. Haring, Wilmington, N. C.; Florence Kleinert, Fullerton, iPa.; Jesse G. Johnson, Norfolk, Va.; !Max Kron­stein, New York City; Nellie B. Ser­gent, New Y'ork City; James Wother­spoon, Broxburn, England; Samuel S. Goldsti:cker, Jr., Bloamfiel!d, N.J.; Ar mand ·E. Carroll, San Bernardino, Calif.; Edw,ard Benson, Wilmette, Ill.; Reginald George Auckland, Sand­ridge, England; WoUgang Fritzsche,

- Geneva, N. Y., and Laura La Vesque, Newton Center, Mass.

Honorable mention to: John C. Mc­

Adams, _West Memphis, Ark.; Fred Bauer, New York City; Herman Kleinert, Fullerton, Pa.; Jack Scha­ber, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Bill Schneider,

Metuchen, N.Y.; Bob ~aufman, Ber­genfield, N. J., and Clayton J. Good­pastor, Auburn, Calif.

A special bronze A.AJM.S. plaque was given to Thomas A. Matthews, Springfield, Ohio, for his magnificent rarities from his Fipex Grand award collection. This was entered in the Court of Honor, and was not in com­petition. Other entries not for com­petition were those of Geol'ge D. Kingdom, Conneaut, Ohio; L. B. Gat­chell, Upper Montdair, N. J., and Pan American World Airways, New York City.

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The El AI Story By Julius Weiss • •

The philatelic world is well aware of the ·M·ogan David emblem of El Al Airline through the many interesting phHatelic items carried via El Al first and special fligilits. It is only fitting that on the Tenth Anniversary Year of the State of Israel that we tell "The El Al Story."

Gazing through our flioght covers we see such materi-al as Lydda to New York (June 26, 1950), Lod to Amsterdam (Mar.ch 8, 19•516), plus many special Holiday (.Passover) flights. Also there i-s a special :Blight Wihiah carried the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1955. These .philateHc items are part of history wh:kh is re-

. markable for any airline w.hich has not reached its tenth year of exist­en:ce. Et Al is an infant in the world of air travel; yet it is a •giant in its potential energy.

The airline was born of necessity in a period whi-Cih saw large groups of refugees desiring quick air trans­portation to Israel. El Al, the nation­a•! airline, was incorporated in No­vember, 194'8. The government of Is­rael took over controlling interest, with the Histadrut Labor organiza ­tion, Jewish Agency and Zim, the na­<tional shipping line, also acquiring shares. The line started operating in August, 1949, with four-engined Sky­masters (DC4) ,flying to Rome and Paris. For shorter routes the twin-en­gined C46 Commando was used. By the end of 195·0, the DC4s •and several C46s were in operation with flights to London, Paris, Rome, Zuri-ch, Ath­ens, Vienna, Istanbul and Nicosia. Progress came in 19M rw hen El Al sold the DC4s and !began using Con­stellations with regular schedules to New York and Johannesburg.

However, before all these flights could carry on, the airfield at Lydda ih1ad to be restored. This field was a great ·British air 1base which finally had been captured by Israeli armored units. The scars of w·ar were all a:b-

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out the field, !but the ha:ngars and the runways were intad. Today nine air companies are operating services to Israel. Our covers show that Swis·sair, Air France, TWA, Sabena, KLM and others land in Isr·ael. FHghts are cov-. ered by air agreements 1between Is­rael and countries of th-eir ongm, who -grant El Al recipr·ocal rig.hts. The Israeli government has a Department of Civil Aviation whicih is a full member of The International Civil Aviation GCAO).

El Al has one of the most modern schools with the most up-to-date training equipment to teach carefully selected youth the many aspects· of modern-day aviatiQn. ,T:he tmining is for technical Qpemtors (captains, na­vigators, flight engineers·, radio oper­ators) as well as non-technical em­polyes (air-hostesses, pursers). El AI recently won world recognition when El Al 'hostess, IHa Har-El, IWOn the title "Queen of Intern1ational Air Hostesses. The •contest took p1ace in Miami Beach with 36 hostesses repre­senting 26. countries taking part. Many readers may have seen this:

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hostess on TV .as later she appeared on a national (USA) hook-up quiz show. The hostesses and pursers of El Al are linguists, nurses, and effi-

. cient waitresses, for the line !feels that for many persons the flight on El Al is the first (and last) impres­sion of Israel.

As this is the jet age, we enter the new era o.f ·El Al. The Constellations ihave been switched to European routes only and the magic Jet-.Prop (Whispering G1ant) known as the Br1ttannia (Bristol), 310 has taken to the air !for El Al. These £Ugh ts cover trans-Atlantic - London - New York - Paris -Athens -Lod. Most collect­ors know the fine BOAC fligJhts via this type of aircraft. For a line less than 10 years old to "scoop" many 'Other of the rworld major airlines is truly a miracle in aviation history. Dec. 22, 1957 saw the fir-st El Al com­mercial :£light (;Bristol Britannia) ser­vice to New York '.from Tel Aviv via London. El Al holds both the east and westJbound trans-Atlantk rec­ords, having flown from London to New York in 9 hrs 52 rnins. on Janu­ary 24, 1.958 and from New York to London in 7 hrs. 44 mins. on January 8. El AI also cUpped a few minutes off the previous New York - Paris

SEPTEM:BER, 1958

record early in February. We cannot complete the El AI

story without mentioning the man who has much to do with the new era for El Al. 'Leadership of the airline is in the hands of Brigadier General Ephraim Ben Arzi, a man who fol­lows the slogan of •El Al, "Outwards and Onwards." The range of approx­imately ·6,200 miles, depending on the payload plus the aibility to carry 13·3 passengers (nearly 3 tons of mail or freight) is truly a marvel!

We -cannot tell the El AI story with­out saying that in eight years of :fly­ing to many points on the globe not a single ;passenger has lost his or her liofe-ex·cept for the shooting down ru one of its Constellations by Bulgarian .fi·ghter aircraft in 1955. This is· safe­ty at its greatest.

The hobbyist should obtain all El AI philatelic mail, for this is history on the march. The December 2.2, 1957 jet fli:ghts had philatelic treatment wiuh firsts to New York, Paris and London. Remember each El Al first flight cover is a fragment of this historical decade ·for the little nation of Israel with its Whispering Jet Gi­ants . El Al in Hebrew means "To the Skies"; to 'our readers rwe say, eyes up to El AI.

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Airport Dedications By WILLIAM T. WYNN

13537 Rockdale, Detroit 23, Mich.

Airport Dedications have been few and far ·between thus far in 1958.

Greybull, Wyo. and Newton, Kans. will ·hold dedications on Sept. 7. The Postmaster or Chamber of Commerce will no doubt be glad to hold your covers.

The following is 1958 as of now: Feb. 2•8, Miami, Fla.: Municipal

Heliport. No cachet and about 100 covers.

April 13, Torrington, Wyo.: Muni­dpal. A postmark type cachet used; 700 covers.

April 14, Geneva Ala.: Municipal. No cachet, dedication on Apr. 13, which was Sunday and post office was closed. Covers mailed and post­marked 8 a. m. Monday, April 14. Very few known.

April 26-27, New Orleans, La.: Cal­lender Airfield. Covers mailed both days; cachet by local collector.

April 28, Matamoras, Mexico: Typ­ed inscription by postmaster. Very :few covers known.

June 21, 'Montauk, L. I., N.Y.: Mun­icipal. 5-line cachet by PM on 1000 covers.

July 4, Cleveland, Ga., White Coun­ty: inscription by airport commission. Only 10 covers mailed.

These are the only dedications we can prove for 1958. Your editor missed out on 4 of these 7, which is surely bad hitting.

Athens, Tex. :held dedication on June 15, no covers known. Rockwood, Tenn. he1d dedication of municipal airport June 21, no covers known. The same is true of Oakley, Idaho on May 21.

At the time of the postage rate <!hange we had over 1500 cards and hold-covers on hand and wish to thank the many collectors for send­ing the extra postage to help out. We do and must ihave dedication news if ''Airport Dedications" are to succeed. Let's have your help.

PAGE 3•66

F. A. M. Notes By Frank H. Blumenthal

1665 34th St. N.W .. Washington 7, D.C.

Seaboard and Western Airlines, for some years a cargo carrier between New York and many European cities, has joined the list of airlines author­ized to fly airmail abroad and ihas been doing so since May 27. This ser­vice, to be known as F.A.IJ.VI. route 37, is on a temporary, non-·certificated basis, as the Civil Aeronautics Board has not yet formally granted Sea­board a certHioate. No collectors' mail was carried on the first flight. Tihe Post Of•fice Department states that when the airline is certificated, it will provide the usual phHatelic treatment - probably sometime this autumn. Carrying mail before the certificate is awarded is highly unusual, but has precedent.

Seaboard serves the following cities: Shannon, Eire; London, Glasgow, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Nurenburg, Stuttgart, Par­is, Amsterdam, Munich, Geneva, Basle, and Zuric:h. It seeks to add Milan, Italy, to its routes. It makes some 12 flights a week, terminating six at Stuttgart, three at Amsterdam, and three at Zurich. It has been fly­ing mail from these points to the U.S. since early this year.

* * * Pan American pulled a surprise in­

auguration on June 16 when Nuren­burg was added to its FA'M 18 route. This city is now part of the airline's extensive local services within Ger­many, being served as a stop on flights between Berlin and Munich. Covers were :handled in both direc­tions. On hand so far are those flown from Berlin to Nurenbul'g, postmark­ed on June 16 at 10 a.m. and back­stamped eight hours later with a ma­genta cachet, apparently furnished by the airline.

* * There has just come to light a cov­

er seemingly carried on the d'irst re­turn flight over ·Pan American's Los Angeles - San Salvador segment in

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1952. The southward covers were flown without advance notice on July 6 that year and are chronicled in the F AM catalogue supplement (5E-30), but until recently there .was no indi­cation of return mail. The cover sub­mitted was one of a few "lost'' in the Los Angeles post office for more than five years. It was mailed in San Sal­vador on July 8, 1952, with a iblue postmark, backstamped at Los An­geles on the lOth.

• • • It now appears that envelopes re­

ceived in the U.S. purporting to be first flight •Bangkok - New York cov-

ers via Trans World Airlines may not have been on TW.A's first flight at all. 'Dhese were mailed at Bangkok (Thai­land) last January 5 and have a box­type cachet indicating they were in­tended for the first flight, but tlhey were not •backstamped at New York. To one of several collectors .who ask­ed the New Y·ork postal off:iJcials to backstamp the covers, the Post Of­fice wrote a letter stating that no mail was received from Bangkok on the first flight (which ihad odginated in Manila). Further inquiries are be­ing made in the hope of stra:iJglhtening out this matter.

OFFICIAL S~CTION AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY

MONTHLY REPORT . From the Secretary Ruth T. Smith, Ferndale &: Emerson, Philadelphia 11, Pa.

September I. 1958 NEW MEMBERS

4507 Van Praag. Sol, Sr., 201 W. Prairie, Decatur, Illinois 4508 Stephens, George H., AF-28223202-6002d A.I.S. Grp., APO 953, San Francisco, Calif. 4509 Fecteau, David A., 161 Slocum Ave., Englewood, N. J.

NEW CHAPTER #31 Metropolitan Air Mail Cover Club, Harry Levine, Sec'y, 9910 Seaview Ave.,

Brooklyn 36, N. Y.

NEW APPLICATIONS Utberg, Neil S., Rt. 2, Box 431, Edinburg, Texas. Age: 37. Pilot. AU By Ed Richardson Schwartz, Richard S., 640 Stelle Ave., Plainfield, N. J. Age: 22. Sales Clerk.

U19-20 UC Z 1D X By: Ruth T. Smith Rieger, Nicholas, 5323 Baccich St., New Orleans 22, La. Age; 71. Retired.

AM AU AS SC U20 UC PC HC PA PB EL FF GF CAM FAM RP CC OF DC Z CF 1D APS PIX HF X - Specialty Plate # Bl. of 4 By: R. T. Smith

Bernhardt, Noah S., 23 Irish Lane, East Islip, N. Y. Age: 17. Student. By: Ruth T. Smith

Barlow, Allan E., 26 Central Rd., Withinton, Manchester 20, England. Age: 30. Ass't Mgr. AU PC HC FF Z PIX X By: Anthony Banner

Weber, Donald J., 11322 Headley Ave., Cleveland 11, Ohio. Age: 27. Credit Reporter. FF CAM FAM CF 1D X By: Geo. D. Kingdom

Varney, Linwood I., Jr., 1614 Hampton Rd., Huntsville, Ala. Age: 38. Elect. Engr; AM AU PC HC FF GF CAM FAM CC DC Z 1D By: Ruth T. Smith

Smith, Willis B., 4204 Del Monte, Las Vegas, Nevada. Age: 37. AM AU PC HC CAM 1D

. CHANGE OF ADDRESS Bennett, Matthew, 5401 Lynview Ave., Baltimore 15, Md. Fravel, Ira F., 4126 E. Campbell, Phoenix, Arizona. Culverwell, Samuel A., P. 0. Box 1030, New Orleans 8, La. Borkstrom, Eric I., 1974 Arena Dr., Trenton 10, N. J.

Horn, Henry M., Brooklyn, N. Y. Brenner, Ray, Crum Lynne, Pa.

SEPTEMBER, 1958

DECEASED

Dealer. By: Ruth T. Smith

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APJ ADS RATES:

FOUR CENTS PER WORD per insertion. Minimum charge one dollar. Remittance must accompany order and copy. The AIRPOST JOURNAL. 350 No. Deere Park Drive, Highland Park, Ill.

6%, AIRMAIL ENVELOPES. Barber Pole design. 24 lb. Parchment stock. 100% Rag content. Prices and samples Ten Cents. Milton Ehrlich, 34-15A 31st Avenue, Long Island City 6, N. Y. Member AAM~36_6t•

ROCKET POST. Netherlands, 5 stamps and 2 used miniature sheets $5.75. 3 flown covers $6.70 COLOMBIA SCADTA airs, Mint or used. Cl2-C95. Free price list USA - IX-'35, 2 Miniature Rocket sheets* $1.90. Capt. Wm. H. Peters. Interlachen, Florida. 338-6t*

WANT Zeppelin Covers from San Marino, Cyrenaica, and Tripolitania, buy or ex­change. Sebastiao Amaral, Caixa postal 367, Bela Horizonte, Brazil. Ex 339-6t

JET COVERS, all plane types, US and for­eign Pilot signed. Military, commercial, RAF Comet 2, Caravelle, etc., jets on hand. What do you lack? Harry A. Gordon, 795 Garden Street, N.Y.C. 60, N. Y.

WANT Antarctic, Arctic Covers, F.D.C.'s, Special Events, other related material of same. No approvals. Please state material available. F.D.C. per 100. Wanted U.S. and Foreign. Emilio Velez, Jr., Grand Con­course, N. Y.

WANTED -Anything pertaining to 20th Century U.S. Local Posts - mint, used, and particularly First Day Covers (unad­dressed if possible). Arthur E. Lloyd, Apt. 21-A, Sayre Ct., Madison, N. J. FOR SALE - Rare Arcti-c-, _A_n_t-ar_c_t-ic-E-x­pedition Flight covers. Send lOc for 9 pp. list Also available finest selection of Rockets; Pioneers, Zepps, Balloons, Semi­Official Airs, and others. Belham Ex­change, Box 119, Ridgewood 27, N. 1

41_6t*

AAMS EXCHANGE ADS

NEED Airport Deds. - HPO. Have thous­ands of covers to trade for what I need. I answer all mail. John E. Slavin, 23 Or­ford St., Lowell, Mass.

WANTED - Picture postcards, coins, cur­rency, Exposition material. Have all types of airmail material- to offer. John Yan­nunzio, Summit, N.J.

WANT to Exchange, Have all types of ma­terial, covers, and stamps. What do you have? What do you want? Herman Klein­ert, 213 Virginia, Fullerton, Pa.

EAGERLY Wanted Exchange 1st and spec. flights, spec. postmarks of the world. R. Tocila, Archimedesplantsoen 9he, Amster­dam-a, Holland. Ex 341-2t

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AAMS EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT BUY SELL - WANT LISTS

WHAT DO YOU have to trade for Air Let­ter sheets, CAMs, FAMs, First Days, Old U.S. envelopes? Orlan E. Green, 555 West Drayton, Ferndale 20, Michigan.

\YILL SWAP Israel mint 7-9, for mint set of US C13-5 cpl. or 20 UN #38 sheets, Do­lin, 31 Park Row, NYC 38.

BRITISH and Commonwealth Aero­grammes, used and unused, offered in ex­change for similar material from rest of the world (no United States). J_ M. Wein­stein, P. o_ Box 419, Pretoria, South Afri­ca. (Member No. 4480)

BREAKING UP of General Collection, will trade for high value air mail singles, mint or used. R. Doull, 1945 Dumfries, Mount Royal, Que.

AERIAL PROPAGANDA Leaflets always wanted or exchanged. Have many dupli­cates of great historical interest. Corre­spondence invited. Peter Robbs, 8 Ridg­way Road, Kettering, Northants,E~~~~~gt

AIRMAIL POSTAL Stationery wanted,, letter-sheets, envelopes, postal cards, mint, used, any country. Give stamps in ex­change. A. Lewandowski, 854 Intervale, New York 59. Ex 340-2t

WILL EXCHANGE Used Airs of the World for British Empire on Scott basis. Write for details. Capt. P. K. Wilkinson, 8th A. F. NCO Academy, Westover AFB, Mass.

OLD MINING Stocks on hickory and Co­lumbia bond paper, 2 Golden Bell, 3 Co­lumbia 1 Chiapas Henequen, exchange for Foreign FDC. Fred :f!:echt,,1306 W. 11th St., Los Angeles 15, Calif.

EXCHANGE - cover 1931 Wilkins - Els­worth trans-Arctic submarine expedition, also Belgium first night flight rocket cov­er. Need U.N. material. Make offer. R. T. Baeuerle, 2603 Liberty Parkway, Dun­dalk 22, Md.

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