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* Congratulations to

Aerophilatelic Exhibitors: STAMP EXPO, ST. PIERRE & MIQUELON 4

Sandra Freeman Development of Bolivian Airmail Service 1925-1945,

Gold Medal
EDMONTON, NATIONAL SPRING SHOW 4

Sandra Freeman Development of Bolivian Airmail Service 1910-1945,

Gold medal plus APS, CAS and AAS awards

Earle Covert Canadian Airletters (Aerogrammes), Gold medal

Robert Parsons Peruvian Air Mails 1928-1941,

Gold medal, APS Medal of Excellence

Steven Mulvey Study of the Evolution of Swiftair - Royal Mail’s

Vermeil, PSSC and APS Medal of Excellence awards

Neil Hunter Pan American Airways Atlantic Ocean Routes 1942,

Gold . CAS Best Airmail award

Carlos Vergara Thee Months in ‘31. The Brief Service Life of Chile’s

Elusive Vermillion 2 Peso Airmail Provisional, Gold

Neil Hunter Eastern Canada Air Mail Routes 1927-28, Vermeil

Ken Snelson Underpaid Airmail between South Africa and the UK

Prior to WW II, Vermeil

Chris Anstead The Royal Flying Corps Based in Deseronto 1917-1918.

a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society of London

* International Exhibiting details from the May issue of The International Exhibition 6 - 7

exhibit entries for World Stamp Show NEW YORK 2016

Middle East and China during across the Atlantic Ocean by various carriers during WW II

WWII (Chengtu China to Toronto; Toronto to Chengtu China;

Iran to Portland Oregon via Vancouver), Pan American

Airways, China National Airway Company, BOAC,

Boeing 307s and 314s, C-54 (aka DC-4) cargo aircraft

B-24 bombers / one 1942 cover, two 1944 covers
* 2011 - Edelweiss Air FFCs Herbert Lealman / a Swiss leisure airline (Edelweiss Air) 11 - 12

wholly owned by Swiss International Air Lines and the

Lufthansa Group / Zürich-Whitehorse-Anchorage cover,

Whitehorse-Anchorage cover

Airport Dog-sled Mail, Ian Macdonald / a dog sled collection’s cover from the

January 1929 Pulsifer brothers 1928-1929 run, Cecil “Mush” Moore’s

1949-1951 transcontinental Fairbanks to Lewiston Maine

dog sled run, anecdotes about his dogs / 1 dog sled cover
* Follow Up: Shelter Bay Crash Chris Hargreaves & Ian Macdonald, Dianna Trafford, 14 - 16

Cover, February 1931 Derek Rance / Canadian Transcontinental Airways,

CF-AAT, further details related to why the plane landed at

Shelter Bay, the cover’s probable carriage by dog sled on

part of its route /cover, letter, map
* D.w. Update #5 – Responses Chris Hargreaves / support from several CAS members that 17 - 20

to the “End of Air Mail” Theory this theory provides the best explanation for D.w. markings;

suggestions that “D.w.” might stand for “Diverted weather”

or “Diverted weight”, Railway Postal Operations comments, “Jusqu’a” markings / AMCN cover 3061, 2 other covers

Puzzle ? carrying two slightly different German handstamps with the

letters ‘F.a.’ very similar to the Canadian D.w. / 2 covers
* Follow Up: World War II Peter Wood, Kan Sugahara & the Australian War Memorial / 22 - 26

Prisoner of War mail - Japan a full description of the Port Moresby “A Bomb of Letters”

air delivery, Sugahara’s article Chivalry versus Bushidō /

2 covers, 1 letter

Directional Marking (2003) shows only Indonesia AO (in a box) other than

Canada but not Korea / 1 Korea cover
* Follow Up: World War II POW Brian Wolfenden, Charles LaBlonde, Neil Hunter, Nino 28 - 29

Mail from Alberta to Germany? Chiovelli, Richard Beith / details provided as to the postage

requirement, the likely route, the likely carrier and meanings

of the ‘A’ and ‘b’ in the circled ‘Ab’ hand stamp / 1 cover

* Book Reviews: David Crotty/Trans-Atlantic & Trans-Africa Mail Service of 30

the United States Army Air Forces Ferrying Command, Air

Transport Command, & contract air carriers during WWII:

A Selection of U.S. Post Office Dept., Civil Aeronautics

Bd & Air Force Docs (Ken Lawrence, editor), U.S. Army

and Air Force records shed new light on the carriage of the

mails, “these pages redefine what we thought we knew

about transportation during World War II”

H.H.C. TSchroots-Boer, airmail by French, German and

Italian airlines from the Netherlands to South America,

European air routes, Dutch East Indies, connections

between Europe the USA and the Far East

1VOLUME XXXI, NUMBER 3 [ September 2015 - Journal #104 ]

* Congratulations to CAS

Exhibitors and Award Winners: ROYAL 2015 ROYALE 3

Ray Simrak Canadian Pioneer Airmails 1918-1922

Gold Medal, CAS Best Airmail Award

The S.C.A.D.T.A. System from Canada to Columbia

Gold

Gold

Sandy Freeman Development of Bolivian Airmail Service 1910-1945

Jim Taylor St. Pierre & Miquelon: Colonial Series through First

AMERICAN AIR MAIL SOCIETY 2015 3 - 4

Chris Hargreaves named to Aerophilatelic Hall of Fame

L. B. Gatchell Literature Award

Allen Klein AAMS President’s Award

Stephen Reinhard AAMS Honorary Life Membership / 1 cover

Congress & General Assembly continuation of F.I.S.A., 2017 Congress to be in China

Arrangements at the British details of the storage and preservation of newspapers

Library at the British Library’s northern site at West Yorkshire
* Another Flying Car Claim Stephen Neulander / a link to a video about the latest 7 - 8

flying-car proposal, the Terrafugia TF-X

a few years away, recent modifications and plans

Covers, 2015 outside Gananoque and later in Oklahoma inside of a

German A-2 replica / 1 cover
* Revising AMCN Section 11 Dick McIntosh / new listing of CANADIAN AIR MAIL 10 - 15

AND AVIATION ANNIVERSARY covers for the period

1984 – 2015 / AMCN covers A9501, A20412, A20903
* Edward Cherry Burton- John Lewington /a WW I flying instructor; flew with OPAS, 15 - 17

Pioneer Air Mail Pilot Western Canada Airways, Dominion Skyways; took part in a

mail service involving the “Empress of Britain” / 1 cover
* Who Flew the CL40-2802 John Lewington, Derek Rance, Gord Mallett / a G-CASD 18 - 21

Sioux Lookout - Pickle Lake flight report establishes that Harold Farrington was the pilot,

December 31st 1928 Covers? remaining questions about the covers / cover CL40-2802
* 1930’s Photographs of` Peter Wood, Charles Dobie, Ian MacDonald, Johan 21 - 23

Northern Ontario Visschedijk / CF-AAT at Cassumit Lake, Junkers Ju-53

CF-ARM, CF-AAT; comments about the re-use of the

CF-AAT registration letters

theory, a brief note regarding the German “F.a.” marking

from Canada to Newfoundland ? airmail for catapult mail as well as how the rate for a cover

from Victoria should have been calculated / 1 cover
* 1937: England to Macao Bob Dyer / particulars required as to why a Manchester 25

via Newfoundland to Macau cover contains Newfoundland franking / 1 cover

England! as to why an air mail cover from St. John’s to Cambridge

England is incorrectly franked / 1 cover
* 1938 Empire Air Mail Scheme Duff Malkin / extensive details provided on the franking 27 - 28

to Canada and means of transport of an “Empire Airmail Scheme”

cover mailed from Calcutta to Vancouver / 1 cover
* Follow Up: 1944 - Iran to David Crotty, Gary Coates / a Jantzen swimsuit 28 - 29

U.S.A. via Canada advertisement in LIFE magazine provides the answer to

to why a cover mailed from Teheran to Portland was

forwarded to Vancouver from New York / 1 cover

Victoria to Seattle the same in the cancellation and the “TCA Special Flight”

cachet) was created for that date / 1 cover
* Book Review:

Arrow Philately: The FAM Ken Lawrence / an argument that, “the trans-Atlantic route 31

22 Debate Explicated from Miami to Africa and Asia during World War II, was

the longest and most important air mail route in the world.”

* ORAPEX 2016 the theme to be Aerophilately, judges to be Sam Chiu 3 - 4

and Dick Malott, CAS to pay frame fees of all society

members whose exhibits are topics of aerophilately

Exhibitors and Award Winners: BNAPEX 4

Earle Covert Armed Forces Air Letter Sheets

Gold Medal and CAS Best Airmail Award

Stuart Keeley American Aero Philatelic Society 2nd Convention

Vermeil
CALTAPEX

Walter Herdzik Imperial Airways, England- Africa First Flights 1931-1932

Gold Medal and CAS Best Airmail Award
FILEX 2015

Sam Chiu Hong Kong Wartime Airmail – September 1939 to

Ray Ireson The Development of Aviation and Airmail Services

Chris Hargreaves Update on the ‘D.w.’ Covers, Parts I and II

competitive frames for New York 2016 are oversubscribed

Berlin (Germany’s second largest airline) / 3 covers

CAS member #1 Achievement Award recipient, Canadian Aviation Heritage

Museum volunteer, Bleriot X1 replica, Phillip Jarrett’s

Pioneer Aircraft, Early Aviation before 1914, Flying the Old

Planes published by the Calgary Institute of Technology
* 1911 Vin Fiz Flight stamps and covers linked to Cal Rodger’s first successful 8

flight across the United States, the Vin Fiz Flyer Wright

model EX / 1 cover
* 1919 - Aunt F’s Pioneer Air Ian MacDonald / shows Hanlan’s Point as seen from an 9 - 10

Mail Post Card aeroplane, present site of Toronto Island Airport / 1 card

Air Mail manuscript overprint “Aerial Atlantic Mail, J.A.R.”

handwritten overprint, both the Hawker and the Raymor

were delayed / AMCN cover FF-1

the U.S.A. arrows and beacon towers, US Postal Service’s Air Force

Airways service between Victoria to Vancouver, Ford 4-AT-B

Atlantic Air Mail Service Transatlantic Summer sailings details required / 1 cover

Mail Route in the World? Rattlesnake Island, Pelee Island to Leamington, Orkney

Islands service / 3 covers
* 1929 Camp Borden to Victoria David Hanes / a “Registered, Air Mail Special Delivery” 18

cover, suggestions offered as to its routing and means of

transport / 1 cover
* Information Wanted R.I. Yonge / in regards Canadian Airways pilot John (Jack) 19

Arthur Yonge and his company “Yonge’s Letter Service” /

David Reynolds / in regards a Bob of the Northlands cover 19

bearing the cachet “U. S. Bombing Squadron - Washington

to Alaska - Welcomed at Edmonton - July 21 1934” /

With Meter Stamps February 2 1932, details related to the introduction of

postage meter machines/ 1 cover
* George Bernard Shaw Mike Shand / Shaw’s visit to New Zealand in March 1934, 21

a “Trans-Tasman Flight: Sixth Crossing In The Southern

Cross” VH-USU by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith / 1 cover
* 1937 Norwegian Registered Duff Malkin / a short biography of Rolf Wallgren Bruhn, 22 - 23

Special Delivery Airmail 1878-1942, also known as “Mr. Sicamous”, a registered

Cover to Canada airmail cover to him on March 13 1937 / 1 cover
* Grant McConachie Signed Chris Hargreavs, Ian MacDonald, Gord Mallett / a detailed 23 - 26

Covers answer provided to the question “Was McConachie known

to use a stamp of his signature?”, several pen-and-ink and

facsimile signatures shown for comparison / AMCN covers

3616, 3713 and a May 25 1935 unreported cover
* 1939: a Paquebot Cover to Peter Wingent / answer sought as to why a cover aboard 27

South Africa the Canadian Pacific ship “Duchess of Bedford” was

over franked 5 cents / 1 cover
* 1939: An Around the World Allen Klein / details required on the addressee of an exotic 28

Cover Produced by Steven Mills Imperial Airways Montreal-Southampton England cover /

Mystery amount of postage on this November 1941 St. John’s to

Singapore cover, a cover of Hal Vogel’s shows a similar

15 cent franking discrepancy / 2 Newfoundland covers

Dick Malott as well as present CAS friends who send Christmas cards

* Book Reviews: Ken Sanford / Australian Crash Mail and Other Incidents, 31

Vol One: 1917-1930 by Brian R Peace, “covers all air

crashes and incidents where mail was involved”, a “study

of the birth of aerial mail in Australia and New Zealand”

Ken Sanford /Airmails Across the Middle East, 1918 – 1930

by Laurence Kimpton, “considers the pioneer flights which

crossed the Middle East after the end of the First World War,

RAF Cairo-Baghdad Air Mail Service and development of

regular air services by Imperial Airways and other airlines”

1VOLUME XXXII, NUMBER 1 [ March 2016 - Journal #106 ]
TITLES / CONTENTS SOURCES / DETAILS / COVERS & STAMPS PAGE

* President’s Report Steve Johnson / the issue of placing astrophilately as 5

a subclass of aerophilately, approved at the FIP level
* International Report Chris Hargreaves / clarification of the three different strands 5 - 6

of communication in international aerophilately: the top

FIP body, FIP specialist commissions and FISA
* Editor’s Report Chris Hargreaves / announcement that Basil Burrell is the 7 recipient of The Canadian Aerophilatelist Editor’s Award

for 2016 “in appreciation for his many contributions to

aerophilately and to The Canadian Aerophilatelist”,

former editor of BNAPS Air Mail Study Group

Dahinden, and Franccis Kiddle

The Collectors Club of Chicago’s (CCC) new website

stamp dealer in regards his Canadian Philately stamp blog

Italiana Collezionisti Posta Militare E Storia Postale Aicpm

Wikipedia / “UK has a 2000 passenger seaplane design

and China is building 50-passenger seaplanes”
* Book Review: Soviet Space Jim Reichman / “provides some excellent background on 13

Dogs by Olesya Turkina these dogs, and many of the book’s illustrations use

philatelic materials”, Laika, Astro Space Stamp Society
* An Introduction to International Sandy Freeman / the differences between the criteria used 14 - 17

Exhibiting: Which GREX Will for national shows and those used at FIP shows, general rules

You Consider? for exhibitions, judging standards, recent developments, title

page, IREX - Individual Regulations of the Exhibition

at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and Arts

in Calgary in 1953 by Stan Green and Franz McTavish,

circumstances surrounding its two-way commemorative

flight across the English Channel two years later
Dick McIntosh, 2015 Chris Zdeb Edmonton Journal article / 20 - 21

Edmonton’s Jean de al Bruyère relates challenges that he

faced during his harrowing 139-minute Calais-Dover-Calais

July 31 1955 cross-channel flight / 1 pilot-signed cover

Visits Edmonton Fairbanks Alaska proving flight / AMCN cover 3417, 3 related covers postmarked Washington or Fairbanks

Shortest Air Mail Route in Denny May / covers added to the list of candidates for the

the World? shortest route, Fort Vermillion to Vermillion the present

front-runner / AMCN covers 2945 & 3103f, 1 other cover

Signatures their key flights and airlines they flew with: Dale Atkinson,

A. H.Farringon, S. A. Cheesman, H. A. Hollick-Kenyon

and A. D.Cruickshank

Macao via Newfoundland was franked en route with Newfoundland Custom stamps

Franking from Newfoundland between Canadian and Newfoundland rates?, franking based

to England in 1945? on an earlier rate?, added 10 cents for registration? / 1 cover
* Follow Up: The A O Nino Chiovelli / the letters “A O” permit inspection / 1 cover 30

Directional Marking

“string of beads” in the Canadian Airways Limited block