INDEX to the CANADIAN AEROPHILATELIST - Newsletter of the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society - VOLUME XV , NUMBER 1 [ March 1999 - Newsletter # 38 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * Features : 1919 - Hawker & Greaves Transatlantic Flight John Butt / a contemporary report from The Newfoundland Quarterly, gives insight into the attitudes to aviation at the time, several pictures AM-1 10 - 14 * Who’s Behind the Cover? 2 cvrs / Ivan MacKenzie / a biography of Rev (Capt) Jack Walsh - preparer of covers flown by Canada’s military and Arctic pilots 15 * 1930 : Windsor to Moncton Experimental Flights 2 cvrs / John Irvine / an intriguing account of the ‘politics’ regarding the status of these flights 3027 16 - 17 * Follow Up : The Vance “Flying Wing” Richard Sanders Allen, Patrick Campbell, Johnathan Johnson / research notes and an article about this unique plane 18 - 20 * Follow Up : MacMillan Aerial Expedition Richard Sanders Allen / the 1931 survey flight of the Lockheed Vega The Viking 21 * Follow Up : Prime Ministers and Philatelists 2 cvrs / Murray Heifetz, Patrick Campbell / one signed by a P.M. - the other probably not 3921 22 -23 * Follow Up : Airmail Rates, Canada to Dutch East Indies 2 cvrs / Johnathan Johnson / answers to questions concerning cover rates 24 * Follow Up : The “Boxed Airmail” Handstamp Murray Heifetz / short note on the classification of handstamps 25 * Supplement 2 to AMCN Dick McIntosh / changes and additions to Section 5 29 - 31 VOLUME XV , NUMBER 2 [ June 1999 - Newsletter # 39 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * Flying the Fokker Super Universal, CF-AAM Clark Seaborn / “She flies like no other aeroplane I know. Although quite stable...” 6 * 75th Anniversary of the RCAF at CFB Borden a brief history of aviation and other military activities at Camp Borden 7 * Remembering Laurentide Air Service Limited : - Reflections of Dr Walford,-memories about the LAS operation,- 50 Years of Air Mail in Canada, -Derek Rance / a copy of the notes used for a 50th Anniversary after dinner speech,- Designing the 50th Anniversary Cover, -1 cvr / Derek Rance / sticker designs, cachets, and marketing of the covers, - The Pilot,-The Flyer-Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame / a biography of pilot Bill Grandy CL 1, CL 3,A7408 8-15 * Maildrops on the North Shore - Pierre Vachon the son of Romeo Vachon describes the mail drop operation - includes further accounts by flight engineers and pilots 16 - 18 * The Vance Flying “Wing” Canadian Connections Richard Allen, Patrick Campbell, Mike Shand / information on the ‘players’ in this drama 19 * Follow Up : Pan Am’s Shediac - Foynes June 1939 John Johnson / names of passengers and crew on this inaugural flight Transatlantic Flight 20 * Follow Up : “Canadian” Gordon Bennett Balloon Cover Races 1 cvr / Robert Terry / brief history of the 32 years of the Gordon Bennett Balloon Races 21 * Follow Up : The Rev. E.A. Butler Steve Mulvey / highlights in the ‘philatelic life’ of this part-time stamp dealer 22 * “Wings of Life” Covers 1 cvr / notes on this flight which was inspired by Terry Fox’s cross-Canada run 26 * Member’s Forum - What 2 cvrs is a Canadian Cover? Nino Chiovelli, Chris Hargreaves / ideas towards a working definition of a ‘Canadian Cover’ 27 * Supplement 3 to AMCN Dick McIntosh / changes and additions to Section 5 29 - 31 VOLUME XV , NUMBER 3 [ September 1999 - Newsletter # 40 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * New Canadian Aviation Stamps - issued Sept 1999 the RCAF and International Air Show panes are displayed & discussed 4 - 5 * Book Review : Wings of a Hero - Ace Wop May by Sheila Reid, Arlene Sullivan / “great photos ... well written ... a colloquial style” 5 * New Information on the London to London Flight of 1927 1 cvr / Gordon McDonald, John Irvine / a three-part analysis of the famous flight, based on the Art Carty Papers - including philatelic aspects and the Roessler letters CLP 6,PF-30 7 - 15 * The 1929 James Bay Flight of “Doc” Oaks 2 cvrs / Derek Rance / a careful analysis of flight details, including the ‘slips’ found in previous and present catalogues 2861 16 - 19 * Who’s Behind the Cover? 2 cvrs / Ivan MacKenzie / biography of Dick Malott - producer of aerophilatelic covers, member of the AAMS Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame, and president of the CAS A6806,6647 20 * Was Aleksander Moshaiski the First Man to Fly? V.B. Shavrov, Alex Newall / quotations supporting Moshaiski as the first man to fly 21 - 22 * Was a New Zealander the First Man to Fly? 1 cvr / Mike Shand, Alan Tunnicliffe / information concerning Richard Pearce’s efforts to be the first man to fly 22 - 23 * What is a Canadian Cover? 3 cvrs / Nino Chiovelli, Ron Miyanishi, Mike Shand, Robert Terry, Dick McIntosh Chris Hargreaves / the debate continues 24 -26 * Supplement 4 to AMCN Dick McIntosh / changes and additions to Section 5 29 - 31 VOLUME XV , NUMBER 4 [ December 1999 - Newsletter # 41 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * Seasonal Special - Aeroplane Cover of the Millennium 1 cvr / Chris Hargreaves / the earliest recorded cover from USA to Kingston 5 * Aerial Derby during the 1919 Canadian National Exhibition 1 cvr / David Granger / the 25 Aug 1919 Toronto to New York round trip flight CLP3-1900 6 * 80 Years of New Zealand Aerophilately, 6 Dec 1919 1 cvr / Mike Shand / details of the first air-dropped ‘mail’ over Christchurch 7 * Dual Franked Air Mail : Canada to USA 2 cvrs / John Woollam, Ralph Mitchener / description of the practice of dual-franking 8 - 9 * Canada Crash Covers : the London to London Flight 1 cvr / Dick Malott / a cover, photo and telegram related to the famous 1927 flight PF-30 related 10 -11 * Patricia Airways and Exploration Ltd 1 cvr / Ed Matthews / notes about a cover with a pair of CL 13 imperforate vertically CL13-2602 12 * Dual Franked Cover which Flew Two Air Mail Routes 1 cvr / Jim Brown / notes on CL44-2800 and the Seattle-Victoria FAM 2 flight CL44-2800 13 * Montreal to Albany Oct 1, 1928 First Flight Variety 1 cvr / Bob Terry / linkage of cover with the Nuevo Laredo-Mexico City inaugural 2847 14 * Flight Covers : The Sports Cards of the 1930s! 2 cvrs/ John Irvine / two souvenir varieties of the Windsor-Detroit Tunnel cover 3063 15 * Transatlantic POW Cover on Pan Am Route FAM 18 1 cvr / Jack Ince / notes on an Aug 1944 registered POW cover to Florida 16 * 1944 : New Zealand-Canada Inaugural Flight of RAF 1 cvr / Rick Oxenham / notes on an air mail Letter Card to Montreal 17 * 1978 - The Zanussi Cover 1 cvr / write-up of the 26 July 1978 attempt to cross the Atlantic from NFLD, by balloon 18 * 1987 - 50th Anniversary of Air Canada 1 cvr / Albert Leger / anniversary cover with block of four of the 36c 'Jet Over Globe' 19 * Little-known Canadian Events Patrick Campbell / excerpt from It Seems Like Only Yesterday - Air Canada, The First 50 Years by Philip Smith 20 * Mail by Helicopter to Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs 1 cvr / Nelson Bentley / notes on a 1999 cover carried on this winter mail route 21 * Follow Up : Who Was the First Man to Fly? The Scots by Clifford Hanley, The Sunday Telegraph - L.F. Gillam / claims of heavier-than- air flights before the Wright brothers 23 - 24 * Book Review : The Transports by G.H. Davis 1 cvr / Kendall Sanford / U.S. airmail stamps, “the book covers all aspects of the Transports - from the stamp design and development ...” 26 -27 * Supplement 5 to AMCN Dick McIntosh / changes and additions to Section 5 29 - 31 VOLUME XVI , NUMBER 1 [ March 2000 - Newsletter # 42 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * Review : Air Mail Operations During WW II by H Boyle Jr. Jack Ince / a useful book for anyone involved in writing up WW II covers 7 * Carcross in the National News 1 cvr / includes a report on the meteorite crash near Atlin, B. C. CL42-2801b 8 * 1926 : When the FAIRCHILD AIR TRANSPORT Semi-Official was a “New Issue” Air Post Bulletin - Alan Turton / three sections of a 1926 issue are reproduced including “About Canadian Air Mails” CL 6,CL 7,CL 8,CL 9,CL 10, CL 13 9 -13 * Follow Up : Royal Air Force Air Mail Service, 1918 1 cvr / Murray Heifetz / researching the origin of the cover and other details 14 * Patricia Airways & Exploration Ltd - Vertically Imperf CL 13 1 cvr / Ed Matthews, Wally Silvestri, Ernest van Dam / known cover details CL 13 15 * Early Air Mail in the Maritimes James Kraemer, Patrick Campbell / details concerning the FC-2W, G-CAIQ, and other F airchild C abin versions 16 * Flight Covers : The Sports Cards of the 1930s” Ken Lawrence / an interesting account of the (then) public interest in philately 17 - 18 * The First Transatlantic Flight of Lester B Pearson 1 cvr / Jim Kraemer, Chris Hargreaves / excerpts from Mike: The Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Lester B. Pearson, Volume 1 3921 18 - 19 * Burnelli Aircraft Chris Hargreaves / details of the Canadian Car & Foundry CBY-3 Loadmaster, CF-BEL 20 * Supplement 6 to AMCN Dick McIntosh / changes and additions to Section 5 29 - 31 VOLUME XVI , NUMBER 2 [ June 2000 - Newsletter # 43 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * What Was the Cdn Post Office Attitude Towards Air Mail Service Before 1930? Walter Plomish, David Whiteley, Chris Hargreaves / details about inter- national air mail rates, post office records 8 - 10 * Imperial Airways Transatlantic First Flight, 1939 6 cvrs / John Webster, Chris Hargreaves / different first flight cover designs 3925 11 - 18 * New Discoveries 2 cvrs / Don Lussky / 1 January 1964 Montreal to Washington, and 1 June 1950 Vancouver to Sullivan Bay 6400 19 * The Fairchild FC - 2 Patrick Campbell / particulars concerning the construction of a replica of the FC - 2 20 - 22 * Follow Up : Royal Air Force Air Mail Service, 1918 1 cvr / Murray Heifetz, Alex Newall, Chris Hargreaves / an analysis of a cover and its ‘Aeroplane Fight’ endorsement 23 * Follow Up : Identification of Signatures 1 cvr / Gord Mallett / cover signatories identified and several flight details given 3153 24 * Follow Up: TCA Experimental Flight, Winnipeg -Vancouver March 1, 1938 1 cvr / Flight Deck by George Lothian, Pierre Vachon / the pilot’s signature is identified as that of H.W. Seagrim 3805 25 * Follow Up : CAAF 1 cvr / John Wannerton / clarification of the meaning of ‘CAAF’ on cover 25 * Supplement 7 to AMCN Dick McIntosh / changes and additions to Section 5 29 - 31 VOLUME XVI , NUMBER 3 [ September 2000 - Newsletter # 44 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * The Korean War 1 cvr / BNAPS Study Group / short note on Cdn Postal Corps in Korea 5 * The Postal History of Camp Borden 8 cvrs / Grey, Bruce, Dufferin & Simcoe Post Hist Study Group - Dave Hanes / Camp Borden handstamps & markings 6 - 11 * Prairie Airmail Commemorative Flight 1 cvr / Clark Seaborn / restoration and commemorative flight of CF-AAM,2008,3011,9820 12 - 15 * Who Flew the Toronto - Buffalo First Flight Covers, 1929 2 cvrs / Dick McIntosh, John Proctor, Neil Hunter, CAHS / proof is presented that Cdn Colonial Airways flew the service 2943 16 - 19 * Follow Up : Transatlantic First Flights, 1939 7 cvrs / Don Lussky, John Webster, Jack Ince, George Sioras / various Pan Am & Imp Airways covers are analysed 3921,3925 20 - 23 * Snowbird Flown Covers 2000 2 cvrs / Dick Malott / the 1 July 2000 flown cvrs over Ottawa, Rockland, & Grand Lake 27 * Supplement 8 to AMCN Dick McIntosh, Nelson Bentley / changes and additions to Sections 5, 10, 11, 27 29 - 31 VOLUME XVI , NUMBER 4 [ December 2000 - Newsletter # 45 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS AMCN # PAGE # * In Memoriam : John Butt, Nfld Airmail Specialist Michael Deal / author of Sections 23&24 AMCN & several other publications 5 * Pioneer Canadian Air Mail Round Trip Cover 1 cvr / David Granger / 24 - 29 Sept 1919 ‘By Ariel Post’ cover, Truro-Charlottetown 6 * 1927 Air Mail - B.C. to U.S. Jim Brown / a letter outlining potential service between Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle 7 * Air Accelerated Mail - Canada (Via USA) to NZ, 1928 1 cvr / Rick Oxenham / 20-cent Special Delivery stamp accepted as the required 2-cent payment 8 * Unorthodox Frankings 1 cvr / Chris Hargreaves / 20-cent Postal Note stamp not accepted as required airmail payment 9 * Four Victorias and George - the Fifth! 1 cvr / Gord Mallett / block of four Scott #51 used on a 1931 FFC to London Ontario 3119 10 * Trans-Canadian Air Pageant, 1931 1 cvr / Don Lussky / unidentified signature across unlisted cachet, Saint Paul Minnesota 3129e 11 * “Autogyros on Stamps” by Nelson Bentley Scott Stamp Monthly / history of Juan de la Cierva’s autogyro and its depiction on stamps 12 - 13 * The Christmas Parachute Drops to Mornington Island 1 cvr / by Arthur Bergen / details of a Dec 1939 parachute mail drop to the Australian island 14 * Mail from St. Pierre et Miquelon, 1939 1 cvr / Johnathan Johnson / on Pan Am’s first return flight on the northern trans-Atlantic route 15 * Trans-Atlantic Pan Am FAM 18 Middle Route 1 cvr / Jack Ince / Feb 1942 Denmark to Greenland cover by Jusqu’a New York, routing detailed 16 * Avro Lancastrian G-AGWH “Star Dust” Bahamas Stamp James Davidson / the air mail stamp depicts the lost plane, wreckage located in February 2000 17 * 50th Anniversary of Avro C-102 Jetliner First Flight 1 cvr / Patrick Campbell / flight to New York, stamp # 905, 1950 Toronto Star article 5005 18 - 19 * Crash of the De Havilland Comet Near Calcutta 1 cvr / Chris Hargreaves / 2 May 1953, crash cover from BOAC Comet 1 G-ALYV 20 * Wright B Flyer Flies Again Stephen Neulander / copied after Wrights’ plans 21 * CANPEX 2000 at Christchurch, NZ 1 cvr / Mike Shand / details of the exhibits, an innovative “Social Philately Class” display 22 * Aerophilatelic Cover of the Millennium 1 cvr / Ralf Peter Wunschmann / Frankfurt 31 Dec 1999 - Johannesburg 1 Jan 2000 23 * A Mystery Solved : Western Canada Airways “Long Lake” Overprints 3 cvrs / Chris Hargreaves, Ed Matthews / history of Wadhope post office, evidence suggesting the use of the semi-official air mail stamp was completely legitimate CL 40 24 - 29 * Book Review : Swiss Air Mail Handbook Ken Sanford / 2000 edition, “lists all Swiss special flights, first flights, air mail stamps ...” 31 * Book Review : Peruvian Civil Aviation by Herbert Moll / “covers early experimental flights by Peruvians such as Jorge Chavez ...” 31