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JANUARY 19, 1928 AIR POST STAMPS 3y DOUGLAS ARMSTRONG. Editor of " The Stamp Collector ") Reduced Italian Air Postage To meet the reduced fees for air-post letters lately intro-duced by the Italian Post Office, new values have been sur- charged upon the stamps inscribed " Posta Aerea," originallyintroduced in 1925. On September 16 last the former 60 c. greenish grey appeared overprinted " Cent 50 " and the1 lira blue reduced to 80 centesimi. French Aero Exhibition StampsTHE two special air-post stamps provided by the French Post Office in connection with the Exhibition of AerialNavigation held at Marseilles from June 25 to July 25 of last year may turn out to be a good investment for those visitorsto the show who took the precaution to secure a pair at the temporary post office where they were on sale. Apparentlythe demand for these souvenirs was not so great as the authori- ties had anticipated, so that when the exhibition closed itsdoors there still remain on hand something like 30,000 copies of each value. By order of the Minister of Posts this re-mainder was returned to Paris for incineration, so that the numbers issued must have been comparatively small. Theycomprise the contemporary 2 francs red and blue-green and 5 fr. blue and buff overprinted with the device of an aero-plane and designation " Poste Aerienne," after the manner of the Tunisian air post stamps and in the latest edition ofGibbons' stamp catalogue they are quoted at 5s. the two. Khartoum-Kisumu Air Post CoversAs the Kenya-Sudan air post service resumed operations for the second time, collectors will have another series of" first flight" covers to add to their collections, dated October 8, 1927. Some interesting souvenirs of the " flightthat failed " exist in the form of letters intended for despatch by the air mail in March last upon which the original cachet" Air Mail Uganda-Sudan " is cancelled by the impression of a rubber stamp, in violet, reading " Owing to temporaryfailure Air Mail Service forwarded by normal route." A. J. C. on Air Post Collecting SIR ALAN COBHAM is an enthusiast on the subject of airpost collecting. Writing recently in a London newspaper he declared that " The vogue for collecting air mail souvenirsappears to me to be one of the most rational manifestations of the time-honoured cult of collecting. I can appreciate themotives that induce air post enthusiasts to pay big prices for letters carried upon famous nights by the great pioneers ofaviation such as Farman, Grahame-White, Hawker, Alcock, Ross Smith and the rest. For myself I have transportedquite a number of special air mails upon my various flights. and I prize very highly my small personal collection ofsouvenirs of these air adventures." Lure of Air Post Collecting THE charm of air post collecting casts its spell over allsorts and conditions of men, although its strongest appeal must be to those who are themselves associated with the pro-gress and development of aerial transport. According to an American newspaper the great Henry Ford has become aconvert to the cult of the winged missive as the result of a chance purchase of the Lindbergh commemoration stamp,and is now busily engaged in getting together an historical collection of air post souvenirs. As the Ford concern notonly manufactures aeroplanes, but actually operates some of the U.S. air mail routes under Government contract, he shouldhave unique opportunities for obtaining new items for his albums. First Flight Covers SOME of the covers carried on first flights over certainsections of the Trans-European air post system are scarcer than many collectors seem to appreciate. For instance, thetotal mail despatched from the Aspern Flying Field (Vienna) by the first through flight from that city to Riga (Latvia),on September 6, 1927, amounted to 52 pieces only ! Increasing attention is being paid by air post collectorsto the acquisition of first flight covers on account of their historical interest, and there can be no gainsaying that inthis respect they are more desirable in every way than those of later date. The initial flights over established air postroutes constitute milestones along the path of aerial progress, and the letters carried on them are therefore historicallyimportant. A collection of these covers would illustrate in no uncertain manner the rise of the air post service and thegrowth of aerial navigation. IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, 1926-1927 AEROPLANES, airships, balloons and parts thereof (not shownseparately before 1910). For 1910 and 1911 figures see FLIGHT for January 25, 1912. For 1912 and 1913. see FLIGHT for January 17, 1914.For 1914, see FLIGHT for January 15, 1915, and soon yearly,the figures for 1926 being given in FLIGHT, January 20, 1927. Imports. Exports. Re-Exports. 1926. 1927. 1926. 1927. 1926. 1927 £ £ £ £ £ £ Jan. .. 494 1,850 130,049 49,021 — —Feb. .. 2,089 679 40,416 63,080 6,341 — Mar. .. 1,001 7,087 92,840 106,478 9,758 2,270Apr. .. 536 822 160,832 71,190 5,051 785 May .. 342 1,258 118,539 82,708 — 640June.. 24,866 1,249 66,111 149.907 150 162 July.. 16,033 1,798 39,047 104,167 — 750Aug. ..21,401 2,453 146,129 78,742 1.035 — Sept... 3,172 2,045 55,674 61,946 — 59Oct. .. 528 1,013 41,968 93.004 30 45 Nov... 1,069 3,014 118,648 111,202 250 —Dec... 2,972 2,272 112,913 117,241 — — 74,503 25,540 1,123,166 1,088,686 22,615 4,711 R.AE.S. AND INST.AE.E. Official Notice Sshneidcr Trophy Winning Seafilane i'.S.—On Thursday, Tanuary 26, at6.30 p.m., at thp Royal Society of Arts, 18, John Street, Adelphf, W.C.2, a lecture will be given on " The Designing of the Schneider Trophy WinningSeaplane S.5." The lecture will be given by Mr. R. j. Mitchell, Mr. P. A. Ralli, and Captain G. S. Wilkinson, jointly. Mr. R. T. Mitchell is, of course,the well-known designer and Director of the Supermarine Aviation Works and is the man chiefly responsible for the design of the S.5. Mr. P. A. Ralli wasresponsible for the design of the propeller. He is the propeller expert at the Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd. Captain G. S.Wilkinson, of D. Napier and Son, Ltd.was responsible for carrying on the work of Mr. Rowledge on the Napie " Lion " engine, and it is largely due to the many improvements which heeffected that the engine gave the remarkable results it did in the race. Only two machines finished and both were S.5's, and the winning machine put upthe remarkable speed of 281-6 miles per hour over the triangular course under difficult conditions—a remarkabl? tribute to the work of the threemen concerned with the designing of the S.5. The lecture will be fully illus- trated, both by lantern slides and a cinematograph nun. Admission is byticket only, which may be obtained from the Secretary, 7, Albemarle Street, W.I.. and early application is necessary as the number of tickets will liestrictly limited. J. LAURENCE PRITCHARD, Secretary. T8SL H5L IK Tag m m tt fstPUBLICATIONS RECEIVED The Stereoscopic Examination of Air Photographs. ByLieut. M. Hotine, R.E. The War Office : Professional Papers of the Air Survey Committee, No. 4. H.M. StationeryOffice, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. Price 3s. &d. net. La Gloire des Ailes. By Louis Bleriot and Edouard Ramond.L'Aviation de Clement Ader a Costes. Les Editions de France, 20, Avenue Rapp, Paris. Price 12 francs.Jarhbuch 1927 der Dentschen Versuchsanstalt fiir Luftfahrt E. V. R. Oldenbourgh Verlag, Gluckstrasse, 8, Munich,Germany. Price, M.13. m m m m AERONAUTICAL PATENT SPECIFICATION (Abbreviations : Cyl. = cylinder ; i.e. = internal combustion; m. = motor.The numbers in brackets are those under which the Specifications will be printed and abridged, etc.) APPLIED FOR IN 1925 Published January 19, 1928 25,441. AIRSHIP GVARANTEB CO., LTD., and B. N. WAI.LIS. Rigid airships. (282,518.) FLIGHT, The Aircraft Engineer and Airships 36, GREAT QUEEN STREET, KINGSWAY, W.C.2. Telephone: Gerrard 1828. Telegraphic address : Truditur, Westcent, London. "FLIGHT" SUBSCRIPTION RATES. UNITED KINGDOM 3 Months, Post Free.. 7 6 „ „ ..1512 „ „ ..30 d.7 24 ABROAD* s. d.3 Months, Post Free .. 8 3 6 „ „ ..16 612 ,. „ ..33 0 * Foreign subscriptions must be remitted in British currency. Cheques and Post Office Orders should be made payable to theProprietors of " FLIGHT," 36, Great Queen Street, Kingsway,W.C.2, and crossed Westminster Bank. Should any difficulty be experienced in procuring " FLIGHT "from local newsvendors, intending readers can obtain each issue direct from the Publishing Office, by forwarding remittance asabove. 46
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