A set of documents compiled from the Pan American Archive held in the Richter Library at the University of Miami by West Africa Study Circle member John Wilson giving details of 14 different PanAm flight routes across the Atlantic during the Second World War. This Information is intended to help collectors and researchers in aerophilately,… Read More
An A4 softback, 175pp, consisting of 344 reports from the Southampton ‘Southern Daily Echo’ between 1936-39 in presented in chronological order, 17 maps of the Empire airmail routes, and four separate checklists for the Imperial Airways Africa service, the Imperial Airways India/Australia service, the Imperial Airways Trans-Atlantic service and the Pan American Trans-Atlantic service. Southampton… Read More
The three essential works of reference for determining the route and progress of any cover carried on any specific date on any Imperial Airways service to Africa, India, Australia and beyond, and to those countries en route are “Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways African Route, 1931 to 1939” which gives flight details, identified… Read More
Subject; Movements of Aircraft on Imperial Airways Eastern Route, 1937 to 1939. Wingent P, 2005. Contents; Flight details, identified by the official IA service numbers, of every service between the UK and India and Australia during the period Empire flying boats were employed 1937-1939. In addition it contains details of all the Hong Kong feeder services… Read More
A comprehensive review of the global development of British airmail services up to World War II which draws widely on published research from the aerophilatelic and aviation literature. and original research carried out by the author himself. Each of the 3000 or so documented ‘aerophilatelic ‘events has been given a unique reference number, and valuation… Read More
This elegantly written 150 page book has 30 chapters each devoted to an important British Internal airline of that time and covers the story of their development from the venture of the Great Western Railway in 1933 to the outbreak of the war with Germany. There are also chapters on each of the RAF Royal Review… Read More
A descriptive and historical catalogue of the aerial postal service in the French-speaking countries from 1906-1986. There are 288 pages detailing the dates and purpose of over 3000 first, experimental, survey and test flights to and from 40 French speaking countries and, when known, details of the make of plane used and its and registration and the… Read More
Pp 228 pages, A4 format describing wartime airmail routes all over the world. Superb route maps and each route section includes a table of all flights on that route during this period, where known, not just the First Flight. The dates of all intermediate stops are included as well as well as the flight number or… Read More
Subject: Flight details, identified by the official IA service numbers, of every service between the UK and Africa from 1931 to 1939. Content: includes every timetable in operation during the period, maps detailing every change of route, charts, timetables, crashes, interruptions and delays, connecting flights, name of aircraft, year calendar and miscellaneous notes. Contains some 20,000 facts covering nearly… Read More
Subject: Eighty Years of Airmail History in Chile 1919-1999 Content: A listing of 2000+ notable flights, internal, to and from Chile, arranged by the author’s numbering system based on date. For each flight, catalogue and literature references are listed if available; the date of the flight; the flight itinerary; collateral information if available such as pilot(s),… Read More