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FLIGHT, MARCH 1, 1984 AIR POST STAMPS By DOUGLAS ARMSTRONG (Editor of " Stamp Collecting ") An Air Post that Failed YET another projected British air mail stamp has comevery big effect on air photography of the future, with a daily air service to be operated between Ports-mouth, Southsea and the Isle of Wight, under the auspices of the Portsmouth, Southsea & Isle of Wight Aviation,Ltd., plans had been made for conveying letters by air over the company's line and special labels provided havinga nominal value of 3d. to denote the supplementary fee, in addition to ordinary postage. Printed in blue with avignette of a Westland " Wessex " machine passine over the Guildhall at Portsmouth, they were to be sold inbooklets of twenty for 5s., had not the postal authorities exercised their monopoly, as in the case of Provincial Air-ways, Ltd., and prohibited the issue. Air post collectors will be able, however, to include theseabortive stamps in their collections, as the unissued stock has been acquired by a firm of philatelic dealers. A fewsets of colour-trials in blue, green, brown, purple and rose are also known, for which high prices are being asked atpresent. Rome—Buenos Atres Flight Stamps Tragic mementos of the ill-starred attempt made by theItalian airmen, Lombardi and Mazzotti, to fly non-stop from Rome to Buenos Aires last month, which endeddisastrously off the Brazilian coast, exist in the form of contemporary 2-lire air mail stamps of Italy in the designshowing a flight of arrows against a dark sky, printed in contrasting colours and overprinted with an aeroplane de-vice surmounting the three line inscription, " Primo Volo Diretto Roma-Buenos Ayres-Trimotore Lombardi-Maz-zotti," together with the date, " 1934," and a tiny Fascist emblem obliterating the original figure of value.They comprise 2 L. on 2 lire yellow (for newspapers), 3 L. on 2 L. olive-green (for postcards), 5 L. on 2 L. rose(for letters of 5 grammes) and 10 L. on 2 L. violet (for heavier letters), and were on sale only from January 15to January 26 last, when the unlucky flight commenced. Similar special issues were created by overprinting the airmail stamps of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, the Italian possessions in North Africa. Germany's Latest Air Stamps From Germany comes this month a striking new seriesof air mail stamps ranging in value from 5 Rpfg. to 3 Rmk. and embodying so far as the denominations from 5 to100 Rpfg. are concerned, a design by Herr Bastanier showing an eagle encircling a globe illuminated by therays of a sun upon which the Nazi emblem of the " Haken- kreuze " is superimposed. Upon the 2 Rmk., printed ingreen and black, Germany pays tribute to the pioneer work of Otto Lilienthal, inventor of one of the earliest pliders,whilst the highest value, 3 Rmk. blue and black, portrays Count Zeppelin and his famous airship. NewjStanips from the Congo The Belgian Congo sends us this month her third andmost picturesque series of air post stamps most effectively engraved and printed by the State Printing Office atMalines, with a handsome vignette of an aeroplane of the Sabena line following the course of the Congo with mailsfrom Leopoldville for the interior. The denominations and colours of these new stamps are 50 centimes black, 1 fr.rose, 1.50 fr. green, 3 fr. purple-brown, 4.50 fr. blue, 5 fr. red-brown, 15 fr. deep lilac, 30 fr. brown and 50 fr.violet. This was one of the first countries to introduce distinctive stamps for aerial postage in July, 1920, addi-tional values being issued as a result of the extension of the service some ten years later. ; Unauthorised Canadian Vignettes In our January notes reference was made to certain airmail " etiquettes " alleged to have been issued by Cana- dian Airways, Ltd., and employed in connection withtheir service to the new goldfields. Mr. W. B. Burchall, publicity manager for Canadian Airways, Ltd., informs usthat these " stickers " were neither provided nor recog- nised by his firm, but are the ingenious invention of anAmerican stamp dealer who had them printed by a design based on that which has been used for several years bythe Canadian Airways on certain of their envelopes. He offered a supply to Canadian Airways, but the offer wasdeclined. Apparently he contrived to get a few uassed through the post, and is now endeavouring to sell them toEnglish air post collectors as genuine Canadian Airways vignettes at 50 cents each. We are glad to publish thisdisclaimer and warning, as we ourselves were taken in by the apparent authenticity of these bogus " stickers." • * • • PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED Aeronautical Research Committee Reports and Memoranda. No. 1551. The Radially Braced Airship Ring. By Prof. L. Bairstow. March, 1933. Price Is. 6d. net. No. 1559. Use of Networks to Introduce Turbulence into a Wind Tunnel. By E. Ower and R. Warden. July, 1933. Price 6d. net. No. 1561. Flow Near a Wing which Starts Suddenly from Rest and then Stalls. By Aeronautics Laboratory, Cambridge. Aug., 1933. Price Is. net. No. 1560. Heat Transmission through Circular, Square and Rectangular Pipes. By A. Bailey and W. F. Cope. May, 1933. Price 9rf. net. London : H.M. Stationery Office, W.C.2. 2nd International Egyptian Aviation Meeting, Cairo, December 18-24, 1933. Aero Club of Egypt. Details of the Organization and Results of the Contests. The Royal Aero Club, 119, Piccadilly, London, W.I. The Nickel Bulletin. No. 2. Vol. 7. Feb., 1934. The Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Thames House, Millbank, London, S.W.I. Imperial Airways Gazette No. 2. Vol. 6. Feb., 1934. Imperial Airways, Ltd., Airway Terminus, Victoria Station, London, S.W. 1. •:• • First annual " Skybird League " club rally THE First Annual Club Rally of the " SkybirdLeague " and competition for Scale Model Aircraft has been arranged in co-operation with Messrs. Hamleys, ofRegent Street, whose directors have kindly offered to give the space at their Regent Street store from March 26 untilApril 14. Full particulars are being sent to all club leaders. A handsome silver cup and other prizes will beoffered for annual competition, and this will be held by the winning club for one year. Cash prizes will also beawarded, and these will go to the assistance of club funds. Capt. W. E. Johns has kindly consented to assistin the judging. Northern Heights model flying club LAST year the Northern Heights Model Flying Clubheld a very successful meeting at the Fairey Aerodrome, over 250 models attending. It is intended to hold anothermeeting this year on Sunday, July 8, and by kind per- mission of Mr. C. R. Fairey, the same aerodrome will beused. Some excellent prizes are promised. There will be an Inter-Club team contest, a figure of eight steering con-test, a Concours d'Elegance and a snapshot competition. It is hoped that about 1,000 people directly or indirectlyinterested in models will be present. Further particulars will be sent on application to Charles Rippon, Hon.Organiser, Northern Heights Gala Day, 5, Glasslyn Road, Crouch End, N.8. • • • • NEW COMPANY REGISTERED BRICO (COVENTRY), LTD., Brico Works, Holbrook Lane, Coventry. Capital, £100, in £1 shares. Manufacturers of and dealers in all kinds of parts and accessories for motor vehicles, motor cycles, aeroplanes, airships and motor boats ; engines and machinery of all kinds, general and motor engineers, etc, • •> • • PATENT AERONAUTICAL SPECIFICATIONS deviations : ( (The numbers Abbreviations : Cyl in 12,010. 30,721. 5,938. 15,695. 18,557. 22,410. l. = cylinder ; i.e. — internal combustion ; m. = motors, brackets are those under which the Specification will be printed and abridged, etc. • ' APPLIED FOR IN 1932 Published March 1, 1934 Soc. ANON. A. SAURER. I.e. engines of direct-injection compression- ignition type. (405,272.) J. P. JENKINS. Toy aeroplanes. (405,423.) APPLIED FOR IN 1933 Published March I, 1934 S. KLUTSCHARKFF. Auxiliary tube for screw propeller. (405,469.) P. SCHII.OVSKV. Air-driven gyroscopes. (405,513.) H. NISHI. Arrangements for starting flight requiring no gliding. (405,539.) SIEMENS & HALSKE AKT-GES. Cooling-apparatus for i.e. engines in flying-machines. (405,561.) 208
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