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By DOUGLAS B. ARMSTRONG Swiss Military Mail Flight IN connection with a military aviation day held at Basle on September 2, an aeroplane carrying mail flew to Zurich. Correspondence carried- on this trip was prepaid in the normal Swiss air post stamps, but bore in addition a circular rubber handstamp reading " Militar Flug tag Basel 2.1x.23." French Semi-Official Air StampsTo the list of semiLomcial air-post stamps issued under the auspices of various aviation meetings in that countryhas just been added a set of six values depicting an aeroplane in flight and used on September 2 at an aerial rally at Mont-pellier. These semi-official vignettes are used with the full sanction of the Ministry of Posts to denote a supplementaryfee upon correspondence conveyed by air, but are not in themselves capable of prepaying postage to destination,which is accordingly defrayed by regular postage stamps of the Republic. The denominations issued at Montpellierwere 25, 50, 75 centimes, 1, 2 and 5 francs, and they were cancelled with a special obliteration reading " MONTPELLIER-— AVIATION." Scarce " Waterplane " Cards MANY readers may recall the Daily Mail waterplane tour ofBritish coast resorts organised in conjunction with the Grahame-White Aviation Company, Ltd., in the summer of1912, but how many possess examples of the souvenir post- cards carried by the 70 h.p. Henry Farrnan waterplane on thatoccasion ? Months of diligent search on the part of a well- known air stamp enthusiast have brought to light less thanhalf a dozen copies, and it seems that few people troubled to preserve these mementoes of one of the earliest experimentalair posts in Great Britain. They consist of ordinary post or picture postcards, impressed with a rubber stamp device inpurple ink in the form of a square, double-lined frame, enclosing a sketch of a waterplane above the inscription" Carried by Daily Mail Waterplane—Promoted by the Grahame-White Aviation Co., Ltd." The cards were prepaidwith contemporary British postage stamps, and conveyed by the waterplane from one seaside town to the next, where theywere posted in the normal way. Although the waterplane post was entirely unofficial, specimens of the cards used are inconsiderable demand by aero-philatelists. Notes and NewsTHE German air post stamps in the Futurist " Taubc " design are all obsolete as a result of a twenty-fold increase inpostage rates, which came into force last month. A new series with greatly enhanced denominations is reported tobe in course of preparation by the State Printing Works at Berlin. It is not generally known that Ireland has its own air poststamp, or rather label, resembling that used by the British post office, but inscribed " Post Aer " (in Gaelic and " By AirMail" in English) ; colour, dark blue. An offer by a German firm to supply the NorwegianGovernment with 50,000 air post stamps for^use in the service between Christiania, Goteborg and Hamburg in return for aconcession of four-fifths of the issue for sale to collectors, was declined with thanks ! The popular fallacy that a large part of the unique sheet of24 cents United States air post stamps with inverted centre was lost in the sinking of the owner's yacht is dispelled by apersonal letter from Colonel Green, wherein he declares that not a single stamp went down, and every one of the 100 gopiesis in existence today. . . - . ~. -,,--.-. . Readers are invited to forward to the Editor of FLIGHT letters,itc, bearing aerial stamps or postmarks for mention in this column, as well as out-of-the-way varieties, etc. We shall also be pleased to hear from correspondents interestedin air-stamp collecting, and to answer any queries. OCTOBER 1.1, 1923 THE SOCIETY OF MODEL AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS(London Aero-Models Association) AT the Council Meeting held on October 1, it was decided totransfer the Headquarters of Society of Model Aeronautical Engineers to the Y.M.C.A. Building, Tottenham Court Road,London, W.C. 1. It was also decided to have meetings once a fortnight. Dates and particulars will be given later. Those members who are desirous of visiting Lympne shouldget into communication with Mr. W. E. Evans, of 77, Swinderby Road, Wembley, at once.Dr. A. P. Thurston, Major C. C. Turner, Mr. A. F. Houlberg, Mr. W. E. Evans and Mr. B. K. Johnson, have kindly con-sented to give a lecture before the Society. Dates will be published shortly. Anyone who is desirous of giving a lecture should communi-cate at once to the Hon. Sec, A. E. Jones, 48, Narcissus Road, West^Hampstead, N.W. 6. A. E. JONES, Hon. Sec. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. ReportNo. 160.—An Airship Slide Rule. By E. P. Warner and S. F. Pickering. Report No. 161.—The Distribution of Lift overWing Tips and Ailerons. By David L. Bacon. Report No. 165.—Diaphragms for Aeronautic Instruments. ByM. D. Hersey. Technical Note No. 146.—The Fairing o'f Airfoil Contours. By E. P. Warner. Technical Note No.148.—The Flexible Mounting of an Airplane Engine. By K. Kutzbach. Technical Note No. 150.—Notes on the N.A.C.A.Control Force Recorder. By H. J. E. Reid. Technical Note No. 151.—Tests on Built-up Airplane Struts havingInitial Tension in Outside Fibres. By T. A. Schwamb and C. S. Smith. Technical Note No. 152..—Thrust and Powerrequired for Climbing. By Georg Koenig. Technical Note No. 153.—Flight Characteristics. By Capt. Student. Tech-nical Note No. 154.—An Instrument for Recording the Position of Airplane Control Surfaces. By K. M. Ronan. CataloguesBibliotheca Aeronautica. * A Descriptive Catalogue of Boohs and Engravings illustrating the Evolution of the Airship and theAeroplane. No. 387, 1920. Maggs Bros., 34-35, Conduit Street, New Bond Street, London, W. Bibliotheca Aeronautica, Part II. No. 435, 1923. MaggsBros., 34-35, Conduit Street, New Bond Street, London, W. The British Acetylene and Welding Handbook. London :The Acetylene and Welding Journal, 30, Red Lion Square, Holborn, W.C. 1. Price 7s. 6c?. net (postage 6d. extra). Technical Memorandums of the U.S. National AdvisoryCommittee for Aeronautics. No. 214.—The " Turkey Buzzard " Glider, fune, 1923. National Advisory Committee forAeronautics, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Calendar, September, 1923, to August, 1924. The BritishAluminium Company, Ltd., 109, Queen Victoria Street, E.G. 4. 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