take off! - buckinghamcovers.com · 09/11/05 boeing 777-200lr worldliner record distance flight,...

Buckingham Covers, Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent CT19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected]

TAKE OFF! October 2016Issue 19AIR19

ARB41809/11/05 Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner Record Distance Flight, Hong Kong departing postmark and Heathrow Airport CDS on arrival 10/11/05, new record of 11,664 mile flight achieved, only 10 produced in UK

£50

ARU071911 First UK aerial post, emergency reprint 1d envelope produced by Bemrose & Co with dark brown illustration dye 2. This is an example of one of the emergency printings believed to have been produced by Bemrose & Co as due to high success of the stationary many stores had sold out after just 24 hours. They are recognisable due to their darker colour and that the envelope flap lines are visible through the envelope. £150 £25 for 6 months

ARA101AGrp. Cpt. Kenneth Hubbard signed 1957 First Megaton Trial cover with BFPO Christmas Island CDS, he piloted the Valiant Bomber which dropped Britain's first live H-Bomb on15/05/57 during Operation Grapple

£350 £50 for 7 months

LZ 127 Graf ZeppelinThe LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger airship named after its creator, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. It was in service from 1928 to 1937, making 590 flights and travelling over a million miles during its lifespan. In 1932 the Graf began five years of regular services between Germany and Brazil. It made 64 trips to Brazil during this period, and at its height was operating a fortnightly service, becoming the world's first regularly scheduled, nonstop, intercontinental airline route.

ARZ21A 1929 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin 'round the world flight', carried on the Friedrichshafen, Germany - LA leg with 'Graf Zeppelin Weltrundfahrt' cachet £225

£45 for 5 months

ARZ271930 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin flown airmail from Friedrichshafen to South America, with 'Luftschiff Graf Zeppelin Sudamerikafahrt' cachet £275

£27.50 for 10 months

ARZ281933 LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, flown from Friedrichshafen - Chicago on its 'Century of Progress' flight, with red triangular flight route cachet£275 £55 for 5 months

Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4BF Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected]

2

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838 -1917)German general who is best remembered for pioneering the development of Zeppelins.

ARZ46 Count von Zeppelin signed black and white WWI German postcard with illustration of artillery and a zeppelin in the skies, postmarked in Gotha on 9th March 1915

£750£62.50 for 12 months

Alexander Seversky (1894 - 1974) Russian-American aviation innovator and proponent of strategic air power. He served as a pilot in the Russian Baltic Fleet during WWI and later immigrated to the USA where he founded the pioneering Seversky Aero Corporation.

SGS191 Alexander P. de Seversky signed plain American cover £75

Edwin Albert Link (1904 - 1981)Pioneer in aviation who is best remembered for inventing the flight simulator. His technology became available for widespread commercial use in 1929 and was initially called the called the Blue Box or Link Trainer.

ARA151 1979 50th anniversary of flight simulation signed by the technologies inventor Edwin Link £100

£20 for 5 months

Walter Hinton was a legendry aviator who first achieved recognition in 1919 when he piloted a Curtiss Flying Boat across the Atlantic; the first aircraft to complete a transatlantic flight. He continued to push the aviation frontier throughout the 1920s and 30s by completing such feats as exploring the Arctic by balloon, piloting the first flight from North to South America, and travelling the Amazon by hydroplane. Hinton's wide spread fame led to him becoming a guest speaker on the popular American Aviation Tours.

ARA108 1931 Walter Hinton signed 1931 Service to Aviation US Tour which Hinton was a part of, flown, our choice £150£50 for 3 months

The collection includes three vintage postcards of the tour, two showing Grahame-White in his Farman Waterplane and the third illustrating a Zeppelin heading towards the coast; plus an original newspaper cutting. The star item is a passenger flight souvenir which has been signed by Claude Grahame-White.The tour travelled to 121 towns and cities across the country, mostly, but not

exclusively those which where situated on the coast. The tour was financed by the sponsorship of the Daily Mail and organised by the Grahame-White Aviation Company. The inspiration behind the tour was to promote, educate, and boost public interest in aviation.

ARP117 Collection of items from the 1912 Wake up England Tour £800 £80 for 10 months

www.buckinghamcovers.com 3

Fantastic Flight SignaturesAmelia EarhartAmelia Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic. She took off from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland on the 20th of May, and landed in Culmore, Northern Ireland 14 hours and 56 minutes later. On June 1st 1937 Earhart took off in an attempt to set a global circumnavigation record. Tragically, between Lae and Howland Island, Earhart, along with her co-pilot disappeared completely and to this day no trace of them or the plane has been found.

SGE032C Amelia Earhart signed 1930 International Aircraft Show cover. £1000

SGE032D Amelia Earhart signed 1929 cover with green first amphibian flight illustration and Cleveland, Ohio postmark £1200

Sir Alan CobhamSir Alan Cobham was an English pilot particularly famous for his pioneering of long distance flights. He served with the Royal Flying Corps in WWI and after the war became a test pilot for the de Havilland aircraft company. Cobham was a true celebrity of his day with over 60,000 fans watching him land in Melbourne on completion of his 1926 England to Australia flight. His achievements were recognised with the awarding of the Gold Medal by the Fèdèration Aèronautique Internationale and his name lives on today as a true pioneer.

ARA1371926 Demonstration Flight flown by Sir Alan

Cobham and Lady Gladys Cobham, New York - Philadelphia - Washington, initialled ‘AJC’ by

Sir Alan J Cobham, our choice of leg£150

ARA142 1926 ‘The East’ - New York mail carried on SS Homeric to 12 hours outside NY where Alan Cobham was to fly ‘ship to shore’ but windy so mail continued to NY on the Homeric, Cobham has signed with his initials £225

SGE032BAmelia Earhart signed 1929 cover with black first amphibian flight illustration and Detroit, Michigan postmark£1000

Charles RosendahlCharles Rosendahl (1892 -1977) was a decorated Vice Admiral in the United States Navy and an advocate the American Airship program. After transferring to the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst, New Jersey in 1923 he was handed his first command, the USS Los Angeles, in 1926, before later commanding the USS Akron. Rosendahl also served as an American observer on the German Zeppelin Hindenburg. He was in command at Lakehurst when the Hindenburg was destroyed at the base in 1937 and led the rescue effort.

ARZ10C1933 USS Akron Miami, Florida return visit cover signed by Vice Admiral Charles Rosendahl £300

FRONT

BACK

ARZ10D 1932 USS Akron coast to coast cover signed by Vice Admiral Charles Rosendahl £300


4

Australian AirmailsARO261934 Australia - New Zealand with first official air mail cachet, carried by Ulm and Allan in 'Faith in Australia'£30

ARO35 1934 The first official airmail New Zealand - Australia, flown by Ulm and Boulton in the Avro 10 'Faith in Australia' £40

ARO741934 New Zealand - Australia, with first official air mail cachet, flown by Ulm and Boulton in the Avro 10 'Faith in Australia'

£30

ARQ26 Qantas advertising map showing their routes across the globe - 6x3 £15

ARO751933 New South Wales

Airmail Society postcard flown in the Aerial

Derby and signed by the winning pilot G. M.

Reid, 300 flown£60ARQ10

1959 Qantas Boeing 707 first scheduled

jet flight Sydney - San Francisco via Fiji and Honolulu, our choice

£15

ARQ361961 Qantas Philippines - Sydney first 707 jet flight with special green V Jet cachet, our choice£15

ARO021969 London - Sydney Air Race commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the first flight from England to Australia, flown in race. Signed by Squadron Leader J .C. Waters £25

ARO021969 London - Sydney Air Race commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the first flight from England to Australia, flown in race. Signed by Flt. Lt.

Kingsley, with Emergency Landing in Indonesia cachet £25

ARO02B1969 London -

Sydney Air Race commemorating

the 50th Anniversary of the first flight

from England to Australia, flown in race. Signed by Pilot Rudd £25

ARO041932 England - Australia xmas greetings by first all Australian air mail, flown by ANA, meant to arrive before christmas but delays to Aus-Eng flight and then further damage meant didnt leave till 7 Jan £45

ARO24A1937 Trans Pacific Airmail Auckland, New Zealand - California, USA £25


Channel Islands1937 Jersey Airways

BUY THE PAIR FOR £50

ARJ03Jersey -

Southampton first flight

£30

ARJ04Jersey - London first flight£30

1939 Guernsey Airways

ARJ06 1939 Southampton - Guernsey first flight, our choice

£25

ARJ081939 Guernsey - England, our choice£25


ARJ23 1985 Schneider Trophy Race with Jersey postmark and signed by the pilot P Shipton £20

ARJ23A1981 50th Anniversary of the Schneider Trophy Contest, Britain Outright Winners. Signed by Air Vice Marshall S N Webster (Winner 1927 contest) £20

ARJ3209/06/84 Mildenhall Air Fete,

flown in Boeing and signed£10

ARJ6211/07/46 Victory Stamps FDC, flown to the Channel Islands, our choice£50

BUY ANY TWO BELOW FOR £18

ARJ27 1976 30th Anniversary of the first Alderney - Guernsey Mail Flight, Aurigny Air Services.....£10ARJ27A1976 30th Anniversary of the first Guernsey - Alderney Mail Flight, Aurigny Air Services ......£10ARJ33 1972 BEA 25th Anniversary of airmail from London - Channel Islands ..................................£10ARJ34 1973 BEA Guernsey - Amsterdam ..................£10ARJ35 1973 BEA Amsterdam - Guernsey ..................£10

ARJ36 1975 BA Jersey - Dusseldorf via Guernsey ...£10ARJ38 1971 25th Anniversary of the first airmail from Guernsey - Alderney ...........................................£10ARJ41 1972 60th Anniversary of the first aircraft to land at Jersey .................................................................£10ARJ55 1939 Newport - Lundy with Lundy cachet ...£10ARJ68 1975 BA Jersey - London, first passenger flight ..£10ARJ71 1980 Jersey European, Jersey - Paris first flight .£10


6

American Airmails ARA1501947 Pan American World Airways Calcutta, India - New York, first Clipper airmail with our choice of special cachet£20

ART107 1945 AAS, USA - London first flight, our choice £20

ART1081945 AAS, London - USA first flight, our choice£20

ART168 1945 AAS, USA - Ireland first flight, our choice £20

ART1691945 AAS, USA -

Newfoundland first flight, our choice £20

ARA1111968 50th Anniversary of US Air Mail FDC£10

ARA100 Charles Lindbergh carried air mail with special 'Lindbergh again flies the air mail' cachet, our choice £40

ARA136 1948 Sky Merchant World Flight - Atlas Supply Company equipped a flying salesroom on a global flight that visited 29 cities - 4500 'airsheets' were produced by the American Air Mail Society £150

ARA139AThree 1930s covers commemorating

Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte Goodwill Tour of America,

which they went on after completing the first non-stop France -US flight

£50

£50 for 3 months

01303278137


American Airmails

ARA114 1926 Minneapolis - Chicago first flight of the contract air mail - the plane crashed at Mendota, Minnesota and mail did not arrive at Chicago until the 8th.£30 Now £25

ARA1151929 Denver, Colorado - Bay City, Michigan first airmail and dedication of Fort Collins Airport in Colorado - plane crashed at Cheyenne, Wyoming £30 Now £25

ARA1161931 Pacific Air

Transport Flight, Oakland, California - Portland, crash mail - the flight crashed on take-off at Oakland

£30 Now £25

ARA118 1941 Dedication and Opening of Courtland, New York Airport, flown Cortland - Canada £15

ARA1191941 Dedication and Opening of Krist-Port Airport, flown Detroit -Hot Springs, Arkansas£15

ARA120 1941 Dedication and Opening of Calkins Air Terminal, Washington, flown from Washington - Canada £15

ARA1261941 Dedication

and Opening of San Francisco Coast Guard

Air Station, flown San Francisco - Canada

£15

ARA1271940 Dedication and Opening of Sioux City Airport, flown Sioux City, Iowa - Hot Springs, Arkansas£15ARA134 1949 First flight from Hancock,

Michigan £15

ARA104 1959 Dominican Republic - USA £10

ARA1091961 Dominican Republic - Curacao£10



8

GB Internal FlightsARH01

1948 BEA Helicopter, Great Yarmouth - Peterborough

£25

ARH111 1934 Hillmans Airways first air mail, Glasgow - Belfast £35

ARH1121934 Hillmans Airways first air mail, Liverpool - Belfast£35

ARH34 1934 Windsor - London (Route of the first UK aerial post in 1911), flown by autogiro and signed by passenger John S Davis £50

ARR001 1934 Railway Air Services. Whilst the London - Belfast route opened on 20th Aug, bad weather meant some air mail was not flown and thus the 21st was

the first fully operational day £25

ARB2131951 Belfast - Manchester, Irish Sea Night Air Mail Services - BEA and Aer Lingus Teoranta£20

ARB222 1961 Europa Flight 50th Anniversary of the first U.K. aerial post with BEA 11d airway letter service stamp £10

ARJ501976 The first Isle of Man

Internal Flight. Ronaldsway - Jurby

£15

ARB01 1928 Flying Boat Calcutta, flown Liverpool - Belfast for Liverpool Civic Week September 24-29 1928 cachet, carried by the Flying Boat 'Calcutta' £50

ARB02 1928 Flying Boat Calcutta flown Belfast - Liverpool for Liverpool Civic Week September 24-29 1928 cachet, carried by the Flying Boat 'Calcutta' £50

We run regular thematic emails with exclusive offers Visit www.buckinghamcovers.com/family to ensure you’re not missing out


Imperial AirwaysARI341936 Imperial Airways UK - Nigeria first flight, this was an extension of the UK - British West Africa via Khartoum and Kano line

£45 Special Offer £35

ARI36 1938 Imperial Airways UK - Sierra Leone first flight £45 Special Offer £35

ARI411934 Imperial Airways UK - Middle East

first flight of the new reduced rate - letter to Middle East now cost 3D per

half ounce and 2D for postcards, our choice of Middle East destination


ARI48 1935 Imperial Airways UK - S. Africa first flight where all mail going from UK - S. Africa on this route were flown from Paris - Brindisi, Italy - whereas before this leg was done on train


ARI50 1934 Imperial Airways UK - South Africa first flight where Luxor was used rather than Aswan and Assuit on Southbound services and as a night stop to Aswan on Northbound - done to improve journey time £45 Special Offer £35

ARI551936 Imperial Airways UK - Hong Kong via Penang first

direct flight


ARI07A 1939 Imperial Airways England - Kuwait, 'All-up' airmail scheme, first despatch of unsurcharged airmail to Kuwait £35 Special Offer £25

ARI07B1939 Imperial Airways England - Iraq, 'All-up' airmail scheme, first despatch of unsurcharged airmail to Kuwait


ARI09 1929 Imperial Airways England - India first flight £45 Special Offer £35

ARI09A1929 Imperial Airways England - India first flight, this is one of Captain Smye's philatelic post cards, he was a prolific creator of early airmail covers, pilot signed (unknown) £60 Special Offer £50


10

BEAARC15

1960 BEA Comet 4B London - Moscow

£20 ARB223 1957 London - Belgrade, introduction of Viscount Aircraft £15

ARB2241953 London - Parma, Majorca, first through service£15

ARB229 1966 Pictorial Views FDC with Glasgow FDI and BEA flight cover flown to Heathrow £20

ARB2451966 London - Tangier,

Comet 4B (not usual 4b illustrated cover)

£10

ARB248 1957 London - Malta, introduction of Viscount Aircraft £15

ARB2551966 London - Germany, first Trident flight£10

ARB2561964 London - Czechoslovakia

first Trident flight£10

ARB257 1964 London - Italy first Trident flight £10

ARB2591964 London - Rome first Trident flight£10

ARB2601968 London - Munich, first flight of the

Super one-eleven£10

ARB214 1957 11d, 1/6d, 2/4d air letter FDC £50

ARB2161953 8d stamp on a flown air mail cover£20


RETURN TO: BUCKINGHAM COVERS WARREN HOUSE SHEARWAY ROAD FOLKESTONE KENT CT19 4BF

Air M

agazine October 2016

UK POST & PACKING (UNDER £200) £2.45 PER SENDING

UK SPECIAL DELIVERY (OVER £200) £6.95 PER SENDING OVERSEAS POST & PACKING (UNDER £200) £3.45 PER SENDING OVERSEAS POST & PACKING (OVER £200) £7.95 PER SENDING TOTAL

I enclose my cheque/ Postal Orders made out to Buckingham Covers for £ . . . . .

ACCOUNT No (If Known)

NAME

ADDRESS

POST CODE

TEL No:

Email:

EXPIRY DATE START DATE

ISSUE No

SIGNATURE

SECURITY CODE*

Payment Details

Alternatively you can call our small friendly Folkestone based Customer Service team (no call centres) on 01303 278137

*Last 3 digits on back of card. We cannot process your order without it.

BUCKINGHAM COVERS LTD, REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO. 03877048 IS PART OF INTERNET STAMPS GROUP LTD, REGISTERED IN ENGLAND NO. 03497867. REGISTERED OFFICE FOR BOTH: WARREN HOUSE, SHEARWAY RD, FOLKESTONE, KENT CT19 4BF, UK. TEL. 01303 278137.

I would like to pay by Credit / Debit card. I understand you will keep this number on a secure computer system and I authorise you charge it when my covers become available.

WANT TO SPREAD PAYMENTS? If you want an expensive item, you don’t have to pay for it all at once. We will spread the payment over up to 12 months without interest. Tick the box and we will contact you to discuss a payment plan that suits you.

Yes! I would like to receive promotional emails about air and flight covers.

PAGE ITEM QTY CODE £ p

Please note, with older covers you may receive a different illustration from the one depicted. Please let us know if you require the one shown.

Delivery Details

WOULD RETAIL AT £2000 IF SOLD INDIVIDUALLY

FIRST FLIGHT & AIRMAIL COLLECTIONWe’ve had an excellent collection come into the office comprising of an assortment of first flight covers and airmails. Included inside is one of the

best selections of 1938 North Eastern Airways first flights I’ve seen for a long time, including five which have been signed by the pilot - Flight Officer Boitel Gill. On top of that there is a selection of 1933 Western Air Express, 1933 Provincial Airways, 1934 Highland Airways, and 1934 Railways Air Services first flights, including one pilot signed from each airway. Furthermore there are several illustrated Imperial Airways first flights including London - Rangoon, Calcutta - London, and London - Singapore. The oldest cover is from the UK Aerial Post in

1911 which flew from Hendon to Windsor, the postcard has the dark brown dye 2 illustration. Finally there is a mixture of mint air mail labels including Western Air Express, GWR, Island Air Express, and the Portsmouth and South Seas Service.

£250 per month for 6 months

ORDER FORM

COL2158 £1500


12

ARE226FA1929 Catapult airmail, travelled on steamship Bremen from Germany to USA via France by ship to shore airmail with square 'Katapultflug vom D. Bremen des Norddeutschen Lloyd nach Bremen 2.8.1929' cachet

£200

ARE226FB1929 Catapult airmail, travelled on steamship Bremen with

'Katapultflug vom D. Bremen des Norddeutschen Lloyd nach Bremen 2.8.1929' cachet

£200

We run regular thematic emails with exclusive offers.

Visit our website to ensure you’re not missing out

www.buckinghamcovers.com/family

£50 for 4 months

ARE226FC1931 Catapult ship to shore USA - England airmail with circle 'Dampfer Bremen Southampton' and 'mit vorausflug nach Southampton' cachets

£200

£20 for 10 months

£25 for 8 months

ARE226GA1932 Catapult airmail from USA on SS Europa then by ship to shore mail to Holland with 'D.Bremen -

Southampton' ship shaped cachet and 'mit vorausflug nach Southampton' (ship continued to Southampton)

£200 £33.33 for 6 months

ARE226GB1931 Catapult ship to shore USA - Germany airmail with circle 'Dampfer Europa Southampton' and 'mit vorausflug nach Southampton' cachets

£200 £16.66 for 12 months

take off! - buckinghamcovers.com · 09/11/05 boeing 777-200lr worldliner record distance flight,...

Documents