INDEX to the CANADIAN AEROPHILATELIST - Newsletter of the Canadian Aerophilatelic Society - VOLUME XXV , NUMBER 1 [ March 2009 - Newsletter # 78 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS PAGE # Editor’s Report Chris Hargreaves / announcement that Mike Shand is the recipient of The Canadian Aerophilatelist 2009 Editor’s Award in appreciation of his contributions to the Seasonal Special issue of the newsletter every year from 1994 to 2008 7 Information Wanted John Johnson / Does anyone have information on how to locate a copy of contracts between the U S Post Office Department and Pan Am for the carriage of international air mail? 8 Souvenir Flight Covers, 2009 Ron Myanishi / a first flight cover offered by Australia Post franked with stamps commemorating the Centenary of the first expedition to the South Magnetic Pole and carried on a special flight over the Pole, a similar cover offered and flown by New Zealand Post / one cover 8 Tony Conyers Project Chris Hargreaves / an update on how school and youth stamp clubs can participate in the project, details on the “Air Mail Day” program offered by Jill Hare at the Mutchmore Public School Stamp Club in Ottawa 9 Canadian Airmail Society Awards (CAS Awards) Neil Hunter / a proposal presented and passed at the CAS 2008 annual general meeting to initiate three award classes in recognition of members and others making exceptional contributions to aerophilately - the three award class names: Fellowship, Life Member and Honorary Member 10 - 11 44th FISA Congress in Meyrin, Switzerland Chris Hargreaves / at the April 25 2009 Congress meeting Jackie Lauwers-Bekaert stepped down as FISA general- secretary & was replaced by Wolfgang Porges / one cover 12 First Flight in Canada: Canada Post New Issue February 23, 2009 Canada Post’s details (January – March 2009) / details of the flight and production of the 2009 Canadian stamp that commemorates the flight of the Silver Dart / new issue PERMANENT Silver Dart stamp (valued at the domestic basic letter rate in effect at the point the stamp is used) 13 The Centenary of Flight Celebrations Canadian Press Report, February 22 2009 / a report on the flight of the Silver Dart replica from frozen Baddeck Bay, piloted by former Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason, replica built by the AEA (Aerial Experiment Association) 2005 group, three websites with information about the flight 14 Centenary of Flight Covers Chris Hargreaves / information on covers that were flown on the Silver Dart by CAPA (Canadian Aeronautical Preservation Association), question raised as to the availability to aerophilatelists of flown covers 15 American Topical Association Vera Felts replaces Ray Cartier as executive director of the ATA (American Topical Association), Cartier was an active supporter of the Aircraft on Stamps Study Unit, ATA website www.americantopicalassn.org 16 A Proof Found of the 1927 London to London Stamp Chris Hargreaves, John Talman auction lot / the item description in the December 18 2008 Talman auction: “227 USC (AMCN #CLP6 Proof) 1927 London to London original proof on card with printer’s notes Lawson & Jones, Lithographers, Proof VF, E$3000+” - provenance details in a January 11 2009 Toronto Star story - the proof was purchased and then re-offered at a Charles Firby auction Chris Hargreaves, John Talman auction lot / a related item to be listed in the next Talman auction : an application form completed by Capt. Terence Tully (of London to London fame) for a commission in the Reserve of Air Force Officers, dated February 23 1923 16 - 19 In Memoriam – Stan Sheldrake Nino Chiovelli, Malcolm McLeod / he flew the “first officially authorized balloon post carried on a Canadian manned balloon flight in the modern historical era near Hamilton Ontario May 14 1967” / AMCN BC-6801 cover 20 Civil Aviation in 1932: A Charter to Chicago - FDR`s Precedent-Setting Flight John Johnson, Dave Ostrowski / an article published in the July 2006 issue of Skyways: The Journal of the Airplane 1920-1940, a description of a flight from Albany to Chicago on July 2 1932 (carrying presidential hopeful Franklin D. Roosevelt), a great account of flying in the early 1930s, specifications and history of the Ford Tri-Motor 5-AT-C NC 415H, Skyways website www.skywaysjournal.org/ 21 - 26 Supplement 15 to AMCN by Dick McIntosh Dick McIntosh & Basil Burrell, Chris Hargreaves, John Irvine, John Johnson, Herbert Lealman, Don Lussky, Denny May, Derek Rance / further additions and revisions to Section 5: Government and Other Air Mail Covers of Canada / three covers 27 - 30 VOLUME XXV , NUMBER 2 [ June 2009 - Newsletter # 79 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS PAGE # Webmaster’s Report Steve Johnson & Denny May / a video added to the CAS website showing “24 Hours of the World’s Air Traffic” 3 Controversy Over Canada Post First Day Covers the pale grey image of McCurdy on the official FDCs for the Silver Dart stamps is actually a photograph of him sitting in one of his biplanes in 1911 / new FDC 6 Centenary of Flight Covers Chris Hargreaves / a listing of first day Silver Dart covers available on the CAPA website, some of the covers were flown on the replica and are signed by pilot Tryggvason, 25 of each type of cover are being flown across Canada on the Back to Baddeck flights 7 44th FISA Congress in Meyrin, Switzerland Chris Hargreaves / “The GOLDEN FISA PIN was awarded to Richard K. Malott for his service and devotion to aero- and astro- philately.” 8 Book Review: Intercontinental Airmails – Volume Two – Asia and Australasia, by Edward B..Proud Ken Sanford / “the second volume of the author’s monumental works on intercontinental airmails … covers all aspects of intercontinental airmails in Asia and Australasia up to the end of World War Two …” 9 Book Review: Lighter Than Air by Tom D. Crouch Nino Chiovelli / “a masterful and condensed history of lighter-than-air (L.T.A.) aviation and a keen focus on the people involved … describes the invention of hot air and gas balloons … presents the development of pressure, semi-rigid and rigid airships …” 10 – 11 Flying on a Zeppelin NT Chris Hargreaves / impressions upon taking a flight on the Zeppelin NT-4 Eureka while at WESTPEX (regarding boarding the ship, size of the ship and the actual flight), the company Airship Ventures is mainly involved in giving sight-seeing trips around the San Francisco area 12 – 13 Boxed Airmail Handstamps Murray Heifetz / the pink-red colour of the handstamp strike is similar to the ink for the registration strike “lending credibility to the idea that these boxed airmail strikes were postmaster applied” / one cover 13 CAS Library Acquisition: Pioneer Airpost Flights of the World 1830-1935 by Dr. Max Kronstein published by AAMS in 1978 / “No catalogue, including the various editions of our own American Air Mail Catalogue, has gathered together so much information on first flights in so many, many countries.” - the series is in three primary parts: lighter-than-air dirigibles, development and expansion of aeroplane transport, usage of rocket propulsion 14 12 Stamps Fall Victim to USPS Budget Cuts Hans Niedermair, Canadian Stamp News April 28 2009 / details of several stamp issues cancelled due to United States postal Service’s need to cut costs, other strategies planned to help reduce costs 15 New Canadian Space Stamps: International Year of Astronomy Canada Post’s details (April – June 2009) / the April release of two stamps marking the occasion of the IYA, each stamp pairs an important Canadian observatory with a nebula 16 – 17 The St. Lawrence Seaway Air Mail Service: 1927 - 1939 (Part 1) by Richard Beith Air Mail News (Journal of British Air Mail Society) May 2008 / the first air mail service to be financed by the Canadian Post Office, a review of information that is generally known about the St. Lawrence Seaway Air Mail Service in addition to additional information from Beith’s own research, contains end notes and a detailed bibliography / AMCN 2707 cover, AMCN 2709, 2711 18 – 24 Questions about covers from the 1927 Rimouski Flights Chris Hargreaves / articles published in the Kingston Whig-Standard on September 6 and 8 1927 - questions about two AMCN 2707 related covers containing Quai De Montreal postmarks and about later flight covers and outbound flight covers - the evidence of bogus covers - provenance of covers - input from Richard Beith, Dick McIntosh, Derek Rance, Ken Sanford and Pierre Vachon / five covers, AMCN 2707, 2709, 2719 25 – 28 Follow Up: Christmas 1944 Air Letters Denice Guimond, Holmes’ Specialized Philatelic Catalogue of Canada and British North America / the “Air Letter Sheets” extract from the catalogue accurately describes known letter sheets 29 More Airbus A-380 Covers Ken Sanford, Michael Dodd / a listing of A-380 covers which have been produced / two covers 30 Information Wanted: Was there a jusqu’a rate for UK-China mail in 1937? A question about air mail service across Siberia in 1929. Information sought about Canada’s 1942 50c Munitions Stamp (stamp #261 in UNITRADE Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps). 31 VOLUME XXV , NUMBER 3 [ September 2009 - Newsletter # 80 ] TITLES / CONTENTS # COVERS / SOURCES / DETAILS PAGE # President’s Report Chris Hargreaves / announcement of the names of the first Fellows of The Canadian Aerophilatelic Society (Don Amos, Basil Burrell, Patrick Campbell, Murray Heifetz, Jonathan Johnson, Dick Malott, Dick McIntosh, Derek Rance, Ken Sanford and Mike Shand) 2 - 3 The Air Mails of Canada and Newfoundland Neil Hunter appointed as the new Editor-in-Chief of the AMCN replacing Dick Malott who has relinquished the position after 20 years “at the helm” 4 The World’s Largest First Flight Cover? Chris Hargreaves / a first flight cover reproduced onto a large sheet of 70 x 49 cm wrapping paper, sold in a gift shop – young people’s clothing emblazoned Aéropostale, the company’s website www.Aeropostale.com 4 CAS Exhibition Awards CAS executive proposal for a new policy for Exhibition Awards to apply at all national level shows, designed to encourage research and exhibiting of Canadian Air Mail, one year complementary memberships for airmail exhibitors 5 Life Members announcement of the names of the first CAS Life Members (Don Amos, Basil Burrell, Patrick Campbell, Murray Heifetz and Jack Ince) 6 Air Mail in Alberta by Denny May details of publication of the book, combines a complete listing of Alberta airmail covers with related anecdotes, also available in a PDF format CD, maycroft@shaw.ca 8 100 Years of Flight in Canada – 2009 Denny May / details of the travels throughout Alberta of the “Back to Baddeck” large briefcase, flown in aircraft at least 25 years old – souvenir cover produced by Red Deer’s Harvard Aviation Historical Society / one cover 9 Webmaster’s Report Steve Johnson / recent additions to the website, feedback indicating the website is being widely used and appreciated, correspondence with Lindsay Hardy researching information about his grandfather (deceased CAS member Cecil Stoner) 10 Letters to the Editor Nino Chiovelli / comments about the possible future role to be played by new generation heavy lift airships in North America and around the world, advantages of airships over fixed wing craft – editor’s request for statistics about accident rates of airships and blimps in comparison to comparable fleets of fixed wing aircraft 11 - 12 Canadian Interrupted Flight Covers by Major R. K. Malott Brian Wolfenden / BNAPS Exhibit Series book #56, “The exhibit runs chronologically & starts with the early pioneer flights … most of the early covers come from interrupted flights … we progress to more regularly scheduled air mail flights … looks at two of the more famous crashes involving Canadian mail …” 13 The Airmails of East Africa to 1952 by Bill Colley Richard Beith / deals with British East Africa only, “The new 2009 edition includes 24 pages of colour plates, an important 84 pages of timetables and postal rates, and sketches the aerophilatelic story up to 1952 …” 14 Newfoundland Airmail Stamps And Air Mail Flights: 1918-1949 by Peter Motson BNAPS website www.bnaps.org and a BNAPS Newfie Newsletter of the Newfoundland Study Group review, by Bob Dyer / BNAPS Exhibit Series book #54, “Motson’s collection represents the most complete exhibit on the subject … the trans-Atlantic competition of 1919 as well as scarcity (Martinsyde, Hawker, De Pinedo and Columbia) … three groupings: trans-Atlantic competition, internal & provincial flights and international flights …” 14 – 15 Newfoundland Specialized Stamp Catalogue (7th Edition) by John Walsh and John Butt 630 pages, “ more information on the De Pinedo flight, and on the Inverterd Halifax on cover … covers flown by the different first flights have also been added …” 15 Rev. R. S. Mason and his covers Barry Countryman & Chris Hargreaves, Bas Burrell, Denice Guimond, David Hanes, Murray Heifetz, and Dick Malott / Barry’s article Philatelic Writer Rev. R. S. Mason includes information on Mason’s career and his philatelic articles and publications – the sale of his pioneer and semi-official covers - details and questions related to his Canadian Post Office flight covers, semi-official covers and over-franked covers / five covers, AMCN 2837c, 3619f, 2933a, CL45 16 - 18 Follow-Up – 1933 Vancouver Air Pageant Patrick Campbell / the plane shown in the December 2008 Newsletter article photo is a Fairchild FC-2-W2, a razorback version of the FC-2 is being built at the Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre at Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue near Montreal 19 Autogiros Patrick M, Chris Hargreaves, Donald Holmes / a large piece of fabric covering remains from the Pitcairn PCA-2 autogiro, CF-ARO – the ‘1858’ in ‘ARO’s heart logo is the date Macdonald Tobacco Company was founded – a photocopy of Pitcairn autogiro advertisement claiming it as “secure and practical for recreation and utility” 19 -22 “Flying Car” Soars Through Flight Testing Ron Miyanishi / the Terrafugia (“escape from land”) Transition combination flying car & roadable plane completed its flight testing program in June 2009, further information at www.terrafugia.com 22 Report on the Progress of Civil Aviation, 1939-1945 John Wilson, West Africa Study Circle / the 75,00-word transcription is available in PDF format on the study circle’s website www.wasc.org.uk 23 Airbus 380 Covers Mark Wright / details of A380 Presentation covers, one cover flown from Montreal to Orlando International, the other from Paris to Montreal / two covers 23 Information Wanted: What are the circumstances surrounding the refunding of surcharges on two AMCN 3011’l’ covers addressed to England? Why did a Windsor to Toronto Golden Jubilee flight cover (AMCN 2837d) addressed to Dorchester England receive a 19 centimes postage due handstamp? How many Jack V. Elliot blue on white paper 25-cent essay stamps were printed? Information required concerning the number of Canadian flight covers signed by different pilots. / four covers, AMCN 3011’l’, 2837d, CL6-2600 24 - 26 Supplement 16 to AMCN by Dick McIntosh Dick McIntosh & Basil Burrell, Denice Guimond, Chris Hargreaves, John Irvine, John Johnson, Herbert Lealman, Don Lussky, Denny May, Derek Rance / further additions and revisions to Section 5: Government and Other Air Mail Covers of Canada / two covers 27 - 31