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If not delivered in five days, return to / Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co., / 503 Granville Street / Vancouver, B.C. (corner card)
Via First Regular Air Mail Service Vancouver - Victoria (this was not the first flight - it was the second flight as it is time marked 5 PM at Vancouver)
The British Columbia Airways company which was formed in 1927 flew a Ford 4-AT Trimotor "Tin Goose" between Victoria and Vancouver and Seattle. The plane, which could carry 8 passengers and 2 crew went into service on July 23rd 1928 carrying freight and passengers. A little over a month later, on August 25th the plane crashed on a foggy Sunday morning near Port Townsend, Washington - killing both crew members and four passengers.
British Columbia Airways Limited - Formed in 1927, the company planned to open an air servicve between Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle. Purchasing a Ford 4-AT-B Tri-motor passenger airplane, the company made its first passenger carrying flight on July 23, 1928. Soon after, the company had permission from postal authorities in Ottawa to issue a company semi-official stamp. Unfortunately, the service was very short lived. On August 25, 1928, the Tri-motor aircraft plunged into the Strait of Juan de Fuca killing senior pilot Harold Walker, co-pilot R.L. Carson, and five passengers. LINK - www.semiofficials.ca/british.html
BC Airways served the Vancouver-Victoria-Seattle area. They issued a single stamp before the airline folded in 1928. BC Airways was formed Nov 27, 1927 and flew a Ford 4-AT Trimotor: The Ford 4-AT was an excellent beast. This trim, 3 engine monoplane cut a dashing figure in a day when biplanes were still common. The Tin Goose (as it was affectionately called) hauled freight or 8 passengers and 2 crew and saw service in every corner of the world. 79 4-ATs were built between 1927-1933 by the Ford company. Its iconic shape is instantly associated with the romantic, golden age of air travel. Pan-Am flew them on their Havana-Cuba route. Amelia Earhart flew one. Lindbergh flew an AT across the Atlantic and Admiral Byrd flew an AT on his flight to the South Pole. It was an amazing aircraft used by bush pilots, passenger airlines, and the military. Capable of carrying 8 passengers and 2 crew, the 4 went into service delivering freight and mail on it’s first flight July 23, 1928. The semi-official stamp was printed Aug 3, 1928 and the first official airmail flight went out Aug 4. On Aug 16, the airline began taking passengers across the San Juan de Fuca Straight. Less than 2 weeks later, the company ended with the crash of their only airplane. On a foggy Aug 25 morning, BC Airways, piloted by Harold Walker, from Seattle (an airmail pilot) and L. Carson of Victoria, co-pilot, crashed into the water near Port Townsend, Washington. Both crewmen and 4 or 5 passengers were killed. LINK to the complete article - bittergrounds.com/bc-airways-semi-official-stamp-canada-s...
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 4 August 1928 - B.C. AIRMAIL IS AUTHORIZED - First Letters Carried Between Victoria and Vancouver Today. STAMPS ISSUED Marking the new status of aerial transportation in British Columbia and a new era in mall carrying here, several letters were carried from Victoria this morning (3 August 1928) by the B.C. Airways Ltd. on a contract recently authorized with the Dominion postal service. As yet the service will not be extended beyond the two major cities, between which it will be maintained twice daily. The cost will be 5 cents In addition to the regular postage, it is announced by Mr. G. H. Clarke, postmaster of Vancouver. "Via Air Mail" must be written prominently upon the address side of the envelope. A special 5-cent sticker (CL44) will be sold by the Post Office and by the air company with which to pay the additional postage. This sticker must be attached to the back of the letter. The air trip to Victoria takes forty minutes. LINK to the newspaper article - www.newspapers.com/clip/112116132/bc-air-mail-is-authorized/
The Big Plane Makes Two Round Trips Every Day LINK to the newspaper article - www.newspapers.com/clip/112117320/the-big-plane-makes-two...
The pilot on the cover above was Arthur Haliburton "Hal" Wilson
(b. 27 July 1899 in Kendal, England - d. 30 December 1983 at age 84 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
He joined the Royal Naval Air Service as a provisional officer in March 1918 and earned his pilot's licence later that same year. Arthur enrolled on an RCAF refresher course and then found work with British Columbia Airways Limited. He later served as a part-time aviator with No. 111 Auxiliary Squadron and in the opening stages of WW2 became the first tow-pilot in his area of operations and a proficient aerobatic instructor. His innovations in many aeronautical arenas brought new standards of flight safety to the province of B.C., including the installation of cable markers across many of the province's valleys. He retired from aviation in 1955 after qualifying as a pilot of 68 different aircraft types. "The dedication of his superior instructional abilities in airmanship, to several generations of embryonic pilots and his general upgrading of aeronautical facilities, has been of substantial benefit to Canadian aviation." Arthur Haliburton Wilson was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta. LINK - cahf.ca/arthur-haliburton-wilson/
LINK to a newspaper article "Hal Wilson - Aero Club Ace" - www.newspapers.com/clip/112121397/hal-wilson-aero-club-ace/
- sent from - / VANCOUVER / AUG 3 / 5 - PM / 1928 / BRITISH COLUMBIA / - / ROYAL AIR FORCE BAND / EXHIBITION / AUGUST - 8-18 / - slogan cancel (Coutts R-375).
- arrived at - / VICTORIA / 630 PM / AUG 3 / 1928 / BRITISH COLUMBIA / - / INSURE / YOUR PARCELS / AT / THE POST OFFICE / - slogan cancel (Coutts I-130).
Addressed to: John A. Dolle / 302 North Eye Street / Tacoma, Washington / Care of - C. M. ST. P. RR. CO. Victoria (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad / Victoria, B.C.)
John Anthony Dolle
(b. 1863 in Nuttlar, Meschede, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany – d. 14 November 1954 at age 91 in Puyallup, Pierce, Washington, United States) - occupation - traveling auditor for the Milwaukee Railroad Company - he was the treasurer for the Tacoma Stamp Club - LINK - www.newspapers.com/clip/112078470/the-tacoma-daily-ledger/ LINK to his newspaper obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/112078537/obituary-for-john-a-dolus/ He was married three times.
The First Flight of Star Wars themed planes R2-D2 ANA Jet, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, arrived in Vancouver Airport Canada (YVR) at this afternoon 14:10pm 2015-10-18, from Japan Tokyo Haneda Airport (HND).
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The first stone in the distance is the take off point from the rail. The four distant stones are the distances flown on each succeeding flight. The plane was damaged on the fourth flight and was never flown again. The building on the right was their quarters and the one next to it on the left was the hanger. The strip in front of the markers is a sidewalk. The field was all sand at the time, no grass.
Boeing 787-8 N787BA First Flight
BOE1 KPAE-KBFI first flight.
Boeing Field - KBFI - Seattle Washington
12/15/09
The Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine by the Wright Brothers on December 17, 1903. It was dedicated November 14, 1932, on a day not much unlike the conditions during their famous flight tests here... stormy and windy. Orville Wright was the main guest of honor at that ceremony (Wilbur died 20 years earlier from typhoid fever).
On July 20, 1969, a scant 65 years after that first flight, mankind first stepped on that moon up there. While that was achieved with rockets, it could not have been done without a thorough knowledge of controlled flight.
My mom's dad and my dad both worked for NASA. I wish there was something that would bring this nation together the way the space race did at that time… I well understood that and my family’s place in it. Dad repaired computers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, back in that day. Before Neil Armstrong took that "one small step" on the moon, he was walking around that facility suspended on a system of slings and cables to experience how the Moon's gravity might affect him. The Apollo astronauts also practiced what it might be like to land on the Moon there using the 240-foot tall Lunar Lander Research Facility, a lunar lander simulator. In the day before sophisticated computer simulators that are widely in use now, the Lunar Excursion Module Simulator (LEMS) was a mockup of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) hanging from a series of rails, cables, and pulleys. Its functionality was determined to be more complicated and problematic the LEM itself, so it wasn’t used extensively after the first few crews used it. I do remember seeing it in use, and that was always at night so the astronauts would experience conditions closer to that of the moon. For all their practice, landing on the Moon presented problems that engineers never dreamed of for the simulator... Apollo 11's landing of the Eagle nearly wasn't.
In their excitement when separating Eagle (the LEM) from Columbia (the Command Module), the crew didn't completely depressurize the docking collar... it was enough pressure in the vacuum of space to send them 4-miles off course. To make matters worse, the LEM astronauts inadvertently switched on a breaker that caused a greater fuel burn than they had calculated for. And, just to make things a bit more dramatic, a switch that had a piece of tin/lead solder floating around within it in zero gravity kept shorting contacts that lit an indicator to abort the landing... after a terse discussion with Mission Control concerning Eagle's flightworthiness, Buzz Aldrin continued descent, and manned flight history was made yet again. They reached the surface of the moon in a zero-fuel state at the very end... complicated or not, practicing that last 150-feet of approach with the LEMS paid off.
At this point, I know some of you may be wondering why the history of Apollo 11 is relevant here… so here’s the rest of the story: aboard the Eagle that day, along with the astronauts, was a piece of wood and some fabric from the original Wright Flyer... from Kittyhawk to Tranquility Base and back again, and you can see it here at the Visitor's Center. I wonder what Orville and Wilbur would have thought of that?
Fledgling found on my evening walk. Mum wasn't far away.
The DoF on this is VERY shallow. To some extent tis was forced on me (evening light, over-entusiastic dog who wanted to know when we were going to kill and eat "her" find) so I've made a virtue out of it by focusing on his eyes and wattles to get his grumpy expression :-)
WZ872 (G-BZGB) De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk at Blackpool 29/9/21.
Today saw the first flight of this aircraft after many years of storage and departure to its new home at Spanhoe Lodge.
Boeing 001 Heavy Experimental departing runway 34L on the first flight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Black Shouldered Kite
Elanus Axillaris
Not quite at the liftoff stage yet, but this little Kite is at least managing to air out its armpits (wingpits?).
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GERMANSEN LANDING is an unincorporated settlement on the Omineca River, at the confluence of that river and its tributary the Germansen, in the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The settlement was a focus of the Omineca Gold Rush of the 1860s.
The GERMANSEN LANDING Post Office was established - 26 January 1938.
LINK to a list of the Postmasters who served at the GERMANSEN LANDING Post Office - recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/home/record...
(27 January 1938) - Additions to Northern Air Mail Service - Edmonton Postal Official Flys North to Open Office at Germansen Landing - G. Beaton, postal department chief of operations with headquarters at Edmonton, arrived in Prince George on Tuesday morning's train, and left by United Air Transport mail plane Wednesday morning for Germansen Landing, where he will install the new post office being opened there, and to which air mall service has been extended from Takla Landing. Mr. Beaton states that the experimental air mail services started from Prince George last June have now been established on a permanent all year round basis, and in both cases the points of call have been added to. The new post office being established at Germansen Landing and to be serviced by plane is an addition to the weekly Wednesday delivery to Fort St. James, Manson Creek and Takla Landing.
When this First Flight cover entered the postal system at GERMANSEN LANDING the Postmaster was Oliver J. Crites - he served from - 26 January 1938 until his death - 15 December 1938.
Oliver James Crites
(b. 6 November 1870 in New York, USA - d. 15 December 1938 at age 68 in Germansen Landing, British Columbia)
(12 August 1937) - Oliver Crites who operates the trading post at GERMANSEN LANDING is erecting a new store adjoining his present building. An appropriate name for the post would be "The Chocolate Bar," judging from the number of chocolate bars bought by the endless string of young miners gathering there each evening after work. Mr. Crites has been under the weather for the past week.
(22 December 1938) - The funeral was held on Monday morning of the late Oliver Crites, who died at GERMANSEN LANDING last Thursday. Mr. Crites has been in the north for the last 12 years where, in partnership with J. Harding, he has operated a trading post and trapline. Rev. Punter conducted the service.
His wife - Leona / Lena / Nena (nee Phillips) Crites / Meisner
(b. 24 April 1891 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States – d. 17 December 1970 at age 79 in Chemainus, British Columbia / Westholme, British Columbia) - they were married - 23 March 1909 in Snohomish, Washington, United States - they were divorced (unknown date) - Link to her marriage certificate to her second husband Ralph Stanley Meisner (they were married - 1 April 1936 in North Vancouver, B.C.) - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/44... - LINK to her death certificate - search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Image/Genealogy/23...
- sent from - / PRINCE GEORGE / 9 / JAN 26 / 38 / B.C. / - cds cancel - 3803 - Prince George - GERMANSEN LANDING (black ink - 4476 pieces)
- arrived at - / GERMANSEN LANDING / 13 / JAN 26 / 38 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp
- sent from - / GERMANSEN LANDING / 15 / JAN 26 / 38 / B.C. / - cds cancel - 3803a. - GERMANSEN LANDING - Prince George (black ink - 4204 pieces)
- arrived at - / PRINCE GEORGE / 18 / JAN 26 / 38 / B.C. / - cds arrival backstamp
26 January 1938 — GERMANSEN LANDING Added to Prince George - Fort St. James Route. Sheldon Luck, flying for United Air Transport, made the first flight to and from GERMANSEN LANDING which had been newly designated a post office effective this date. Official cachets, uniformly applied in black ink, were authorized to all mail prepaid at the air mail letter rate of 6c per ounce.
LINK to the complete article - www.americanairmailsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10...
William Floyd Sheldon Luck
(b. 26 January 1911 in Kingston, Ontario - d. 9 May 2004 at age 94 in Kamloops, British Columbia) - occupation - HOF bush pilot (Sheldon Luck, flying for United Air Transport, made the first flight to and from GERMANSEN LANDING).
Sheldon Luck - His Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame citation reads: For nearly five decades he has displayed resourcefulness with the highest order of professionalism in his devotion to the advancement of aviation, which together with his qualities of leadership, have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation. During his aviation career, William Luck participated in barnstorming activities and pioneered the establishment of commercial scheduled services from the Yukon to Vancouver, B.C. In 1942, he joined Canadian Pacific Airlines as Chief Pilot. Few pilots in the world have flown in such diversified areas. He has been intimately involved as an aviation administrator and in all areas of flying activities including: bush pilot, charter operations, airline pilot and aerial fire fighting. After flying for over 51 years, Luck compiled over 26,000 hours as pilot-in-command on 57 different types of aircraft. LINK - www.bcaviation.com/luck.htm
Sheldon Luck's Globe & Mail Obituary - Sheldon Luck was one of those fearless bush pilots whose exploits could have been scripted by Hollywood. He flew mercy missions in miserable weather, delivered miners to isolated claims and prostitutes to boom towns, and took Robert Service on his first flight over the Yukon immortalized by the Sourdough poet. Mr. Luck, who has died, aged 94, spent the early years of a five-decade career flying underpowered aircraft in unspeakable conditions to locations so remote as to have been unnamed and unmapped. After walking away from several wrecks, Mr. Luck was described as a pilot who lived up to his name. His adventures were chronicled by The New York Times and The Saturday Evening Post. Gordon Sinclair wrote in The Toronto Daily Star that the pilot's "charmed life is the talk of the north." His many accomplishments included making a nighttime crossing of the Rocky Mountains by match light, and the first airmail delivery between Vancouver and Whitehorse. He also inaugurated scheduled commercial service to several cities in the British Columbia Interior, including Kamloops and Prince George. During the Second World War, he dodged German fighters by hiding in clouds off the coast of occupied France. He also received a king's commendation for ferrying top-secret messages and other mail while Winston Churchill was attending the Quebec Conference in 1943. His most harrowing incident took place over Newfoundland during the war, when smoke in the cabin panicked his passengers, four of whom jumped from the plane -- two without parachutes. Nor was he ever far removed from the reminders of danger. In 1935, he crossed paths on the ground with a plane returning with the bodies of Wiley Post and Will Rogers after their death in a crash in Alaska, a reminder of man's hubris in wishing to fly. Standing 6-foot-1 with a broad nose and a thin Errol Flynn mustache, Mr. Luck presented a dashing figure at all times, whether as a young man wrapped in furs and stuffed into a cramped open cockpit, or as a respected aviator wearing a crisp uniform and handling streamlined aircraft as chief pilot for Canadian Pacific Air Lines. He was, in the words of one biographer, a "smooth-talking, easy-walking, professional pilot." William Floyd Sheldon Luck was born in Kingston, Ont., on Jan. 26, 1911. He was the third of four children of Minnie and Rev. H. B. Luck, a Free Methodist minister who had in mind for his son loftier pursuits than joyriding in an airplane. Moving west with his family, young Sheldon became obsessed with flight as a boy watching such Great War veterans as Wop May flying at the Edmonton airstrip. He enrolled at the Rutledge Air Services flying school after the family settled in Calgary, earning money for tuition by hauling manure from the stockyards at 50 cents an hour. At night, he moonlighted as a house detective at the Grand Theatre. Mr. Luck's first solo flight came on Christmas Eve, 1930. "Suddenly, I was airborne," he told Ted Beaudoin for the biography Walking on Air. "I was a birdman, flying, and there was nobody else in the cockpit in front of me. I really was on my own." He was just 19. To earn a commercial licence, Mr. Luck needed to rent an airplane to accumulate hours of flying time, an expense far beyond his means during those Depression days. His pilot's licence allowed him to carry passengers, but not to charge a fee. The solution was practical, if not entirely legal, he once told aviation historian Peter Corley-Smith. "I'd say to the passenger: 'Do you want to go for a ride?' and I'd explain it to him. So he'd give me the money and we'd go . . . back to the clubhouse and pay for the rental of the machine, and that way you build up hours, and sometimes you'd be lucky and get in two or three hours over the weekend." The commercial licence he earned was No. 102. In 1935, he acquired a de Havilland Puss Moth, forming
Advanced Air Services in Calgary with a wealthy widow and
her son, a business venture that was as unlikely as it was
short-lived. In those days, pilots had few of the navigational tools now available, relying instead on radio as well as experience, anecdote and intuition. Later that year, after completing a charter flight to Williams Lake, B.C., a homesick Mr. Luck decided to attempt a nighttime return. The perilous crossing was made worse when a dead battery extinguished panel lights inside the small aircraft. Ron Campbell, a mechanic, had to strike matches to allow Mr. Luck a glance at instruments. A break in the clouds and the chance sighting of the lights of the Ghost dam eased the return home of a flight that entered the record books as the first west-to-east, night crossing of the Rockies. He found work flying whitefish from remote Alberta lakes destined for Chicago restaurant tables. On March 6, 1936, with a full load of fish in the hold, his Boeing crashed shortly after takeoff as Mr. Luck tried to return for an emergency landing on Peerless Lake. Instead, he clipped trees. The engine tore through the plane, reducing the load to a mess of fish guts and oil. Mr. Luck was pulled from the wreckage, which then burned. He had lost not only his load but his sole source of income. He was soon hired as a pilot by Grant McConachie, a fish-hauling rival said to have been impressed by Mr. Luck's skill in crash-landing the Boeing. Mr. Luck would spend six years with United Air Transport, which was reorganized as Yukon Southern Air Transport before joining other companies as part of Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Mr. Luck inaugurated a Vancouver-Whitehorse airmail and passenger run aboard a Norseman seaplane. He also opened postal delivery by air to hamlets such as Gold Bar (since flooded by the waters of Williston Reservoir), as well as to Zeballos, a gold-rush town on Vancouver Island. Mr. Luck was carrying a load of gold, as well as three passengers and a dog, when his Fleet suddenly lost power outside Lower Post, near the British Columbia-Yukon border. With fog rising from the Liard River, making a water landing impossible, he chose a canopy of second-growth trees in which to settle his machine in a risky manoeure known as "walking the tree tops." After the craft came to a jarring halt, Mr. Luck discovered the only casualty was the dog. In 1942, he volunteered as a civilian pilot with the Royal Air Force's Ferry Command, flying B-17s, B-24 Liberators and B-26 Marauders across the Atlantic to England and Africa. In May, 1943, he was transporting 18 service personnel to Gander, Nfld., when smoke in the cockpit and cabin panicked some of the passengers. According to Walking on Air, four men jumped from the Ventura in the chaos. The two who wore parachutes were found by accident 50 days later, exhausted and starving. The bodies of the others were never found. Mr. Luck returned to Canadian Pacific Air Lines after the war, soon leaving for the promise of a doubled salary as chief instructor with FAMA (Flota Aerea Mercante Argentina) in Buenos Aires. However, political uncertainty after Juan Peron regained power soon had him back in British Columbia. He bounced around several regional air lines, including a stint with Queen Charlotte Airlines, Jim Spilsbury's so-called "accidental airline." He also farmed and ranched, although he maintained his pilot's licence for 54 years until deciding not to renew it at age 73. He spent many of his later years piloting water bombers into forest fires. He also learned to fly jet planes after turning 60. In all, he was said to have mastered 59 different types of airplane. He also knew anyone who was anybody in the early days of aviation in the North. He counted among his friends not only such visionaries as Grant McConachie but Pacific Western Airlines founder Russ Baker and Wardair founder Max Ward, with whom Mr. Luck once shared digs. While the trio all earned fame and fortune and managers and entrepreneurs, Mr. Luck resisted their entreaties to abandon the cockpit for the boardroom. He was inducted into the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame in 1981, the same year in which he was named a companion of the Order of Icarus, which honours those Canadians whose airborne skills advanced manned flight. In 1982, Mr. Luck was a mystery guest on CBC-TV's Front Page Challenge. The panelists were stumped in trying to guess his identity. Among them was Gordon Sinclair, who had interviewed him 41 years earlier. Mr. Luck, who was diagnosed with lung cancer a year ago, died at a hospice in Kamloops on May 9. 2004. He leaves his second wife, Bernadine, whom he married in 1987, as well as two children from his first marriage, Grant Luck, a pilot in Fort St. James, B.C., who was named after Mr. McConachie, and Nancy Cornock of Langley, B.C. He also leaves nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, the former Isabel Hunter, who died in 1982 after 50 years of marriage. Their eldest child, son Jamie, died of Parkinson's disease in England two years ago. Mr. Luck did not want a funeral service. His ashes are to be scattered by the wind at Fort St. James. An unofficial memorial and a testament to his skill exists not far from the south bank of the Liard River outside Lower Post near the Yukon border, where rests the wreckage of the Fleet crashed so many years ago. A float from the plane can be spotted overhead in a tree branch.
LINK to a book - Pilot of Fortune: The extraordinary true-life adventures of aviation pioneer and trailblazer Sheldon Luck - www.amazon.ca/Pilot-Fortune-Extraordinary-Adventures-Trai...
- sent by: Mr. R.N. Athinson / Penticton / B.C. / Via Air Mail - Prince George - Germansen Landing & Germansen Landing - Prince George
Excellent example of a rare and historical early Canadian air mail cover. This was from British Columbia Airways actual first flight on July 23rd, 1928. Their only plane, a new Ford 4-AT-B Tri-motor, was being flown in from Seattle. The flight stopped in Victoria, BC, picked up an experimental airmail delivery, and then continued the flight on to Vancouver. The "First Flight" hand stamped cachet seen on this cover was applied at the Victoria post office and there were only 396 letters carried on this flight. British Columbia Airways semi-postal stamp (CL44) was issued shortly thereafter, and first used on August 3rd. The outgoing first flight only, from Victoria, had a "First Regular Flight" hand stamped cachet. Tragically, the company's only plane crashed on August 25th, 1928, ending a brief month long period of air mail service.
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The company was in business only from July 23 to August 25, 1928, when it lost its plane and crew in a crash.
A letter from J.F. Murray (see copy of letter above on the right). District Superintendant of Postal Services, Vancouver, states "this letter will be conveyed on the first flight..." and the envelope is postmarked - / VICTORIA / 2.30 PM / JUL 23 / 1928 / BRITISH COLUMBIA / - and carries the "FIRST FLIGHT" cachet used on the flight. Since July 23 marked the start of regular passenger service, the flight is, for philatelic purposes, the "first flight" from Victoria to Vancouver. According to Clement S. Ernst, a Seattle stamp dealer, the newly appointed Vancouver Postmaster, G.H. Clark, refused to place any mail on the return flight and thus covers from the return flight are unknown. LINK to complete article - bnaps.org/studygroups/AirMail/newsletters/air-1992-12-v00...
- sent from - / VICTORIA / 230 PM / JUL 23 / 1928 / BRITISH COLUMBIA / - / INSURE / YOUR PARCELS / AT THE POST OFFICE / - slogan cancel (Coutts I-130).
3 line cachet - / FIRST FLIGHT / AIR MAIL / VICTORIA – – VANCOUVER, B.C., / - handstamp in black ink.
arrived at - / VANCOUVER / JUL 23 / 4 - PM / 1928 / B.C. / - / IN OLD JAPAN / CANADA’S PACIFIC EXHIBITION / VANCOUVER B.C. AUG 8-18 / - slogan cancel (Coutts I-115).
Addressed to: Clement S. Ernst / P.O. Box 624 Seattle, Washington - (Seattle stamp dealer and collector)
Clement Sylvernius Ernst was born on - 20 June 1892, in Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Haffer Ernst, was 31 and his mother, Mary Ann Giesler, was 29. He married Alice F Mary O'Hearn on - 28 November 1917, in Denver, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least one son. He lived in York, York, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 20 August 1976, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
Clipped from - The Province newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 24 July 1928 - The inaugural flight of B. C. Airways Ltd.'s large tri-motored monoplane from Victoria on Monday, 23 July 1928 was made under perfect conditions. An hour before leaving the capital those making the journey were guests at a civic banquet. We took our seats in the roomy cabin of the plane at 3:30 p.m. with Pilot Herold Walker and President Ernest Eve of the B. C. Airways at the dual controls in the pilot house. There was one woman passenger Mrs. Carl Pendray, wife of Mayor Pendray of Victoria, who was also on board. The pilot's little dog, "P. T.," had established himself high up on a shelf behind his master's shoulder. We sat and watched the crowd fall back as the roar of the engine, left centre, right, one after the other heralded the take-off. We shut the windows in response to a signal from the mechanic. We felt the rush of the plane across the field and the easy lifting motion. We saw the falling away of the tiny figures by the sheds and the diminishing oak trees and the opening up of the stretched expanse of earth and sea which lay under the bright sun of the Capital City.
Upon Hubbard’s retirement in 1927, Herold / Harold Walker took over from Hubbard. He flew Hubbard’s B1 flying boat for Northwest Air Services Inc. until his death in 1928. He was a veteran pilot who went by the nickname of "Silent Herold". His little terrier P.T. was a flying fan who always went with him on his flying trips. He was a former United States Army Air Service instructor. At the time of his death, him and his wife were living at 2730 30th Ave South in Seattle, Washington. He had only been married for a short time.
Clipped from - Times Colonist - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 24 July 1928 - SILENT HEROLD - While it was an eventful day for most concerned to Pilot Herold Walker it was just one in a hundred. Flying has been his business for over ten years, ranking him high amongst aviators with between three thousand and four thousand flying hours to his credit during which he has flown thirty-eight different types of machines. Including a year as Seattle Victoria airmail pilot. Apparently to him the business of flying is as matter of fact as the business of driving a street car in a sparsely populated district is to a motorman.
By Aerial Mail / Octr. 15, 20 / First Trip - (AAMC F2-2) - / VICTORIA / 10 AM / OCT 15 / 1920 / B.C. / - machine cancel and straightline / AIRPLANE - SERVICE / - handstamp tie Canada 3c George V on cover addressed to "The Postmaster / Seattle / Wash, /
Clipped from - The Victoria Daily Times newspaper - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 15 October 1920 - Many citizens took the advantage of the Invitation extended through Postmaster Bishop this afternoon to mail to friends in Seattle letters of congratulation on the initiation of the Seattle-Victoria Aerial Mail Service, inaugurated by Pilot Hubbard. There were 250 letters stamped "Aeroplane Service," (Airplane - Service) including message from Lieut-Governor Prior to the Governor of Washington.
Clipped from - Vancouver Daily World newspaper - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 16 Oct 1920 - On his return trip Hubbard took 250 letters from Victoria for postage in the U.S.A. In this consignment is a letter from his honor, the lieutenant-governor, to the governor of the state of Washington and many communications from immigration officials here to their department at Washington, D. C. Postmaster Bishop, of Victoria, sent a letter of congratulation to Postmaster Battle, at Seattle, tendering his appreciation of the new service instituted. Stamp collectors in Victoria made a hey-day of the first international mail flight, many going to the trouble of stamping their letters with specially designed marks. Indicating the importance of the event.
Victoria, B.C. Postmaster Harry Freake Bishop
(b. 17 September 1857 in Portsmouth, Portsmouth Unitary Authority, Hampshire, England - d. 28 September 1944 at age 87 in Victoria, Capital Regional District, British Columbia, Canada) - he served as Postmaster at Victoria, B.C. from - 2 July 1944 to 1928) LINK to his obituary - www.newspapers.com/clip/94407216/obituary-for-harry-freak...
Clipped from - The Victoria Daily Times newspaper - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 15 October 1920 - Aircraft From Sound Brings Last Minute Mails For Orient ''Eddie" Hubbard Completes First Trip of Aerial Mail Contract By Fast Flight From Seattle Here; Brings 600 Pounds of Late Letter Mails For Africa Maru.
"When "Eddie" Hubbard, of Seattle, landed in the Inner Harbor this afternoon he accomplished the first official aerial mail flight in Western Canada and carried the first sacks of special letter mail between American and Canadian points. Leaving the hangar of the Boeing Aeroplane Company, on Lake Union, outside of the city of Seattle, at 3.30 p.m., Hubbard made the seventy odd air-miles in approximately the hour. The day was not one favored for the inauguration of such a service, with strong southerly and westerly winds which, however, increased during the day, and something approaching a gale was blowing when the flight was made. Hubbards time on the trip was expedited somewhat by the prevailing winds, but his vision was rather restricted by fog and low lying clouds.
A Good Flight - Notwithstanding this, however, Hubbard experienced little difficulty in getting his bearings, and came here straight across the Straits. His flying was characterized by the sense of direction that has been one of the outstanding features of his performance on the Pacific Coast since 1914, most of the trips was made on dead reckoning, without the tide of vision to guide him. fog and rain prevailed throughout, with clear spaces once in a while, during which time he had ample opportunity to look around, and check up his idea of his course, with landmarks of the various island groups he crossed. From Seattle he flew west, a little north, bearing up for the entrance to the Sound, crossing low over Port Townsend, and leaving Port Angeles abeam on the starboard side. From Port Angeles he was met with open water, and made the short distance remaining in good lime.
At James Bay - Making a splendid landing on the waters of the Inner Harbor, he taxied his machine into the float at the James Bay Embankment, where he was met and duly congratulated by officials from the post office, immigration authorities, and custom officials. His machine was cleared on this side as a "coastwise vessel," while he left Seattle as an "automobile." The machinery for the proper entry of aircraft, flying between the United States and Canada is not yet on a working basis, as the Dominion Air Regulations for 1920 are not yet operative in this respect, owing to luck of the requisite airports and personnel. Meanwhile the customs authorities in Canada deal with aircraft as visiting vessels, and mark their papers accordingly.
If Victoria is ever In possession of an airport, the visiting aircraft will land at that establishment, and be handled as a flying machine, with the necessary officials and forms right on the spot. As a temporary measure, however, Eddie Hubbard and his air craft are cleared as a coasting vessel and courtesy of the local officials, is not obliged to leave his machine to fill forms at the Customs House, being met at his landing by the necessary officers and forms to complete.
Up to One O'Clock - Hubbard's consignment of mail from Seattle was collected from westbound trains and other means of transportation arriving in that city prior to 1 p. m. to-day. while the resident population of Seattle added large quota to the inaugural aerial mail service. In all he had close on 600 pounds of mail matter, done up in several bags, specially prepared for the voyage. His mail was delivered to him by the postal authorities in Seattle, by auto truck, which conveyed the bags to the hangar at Lake Union, where Hubbard was standing by to start.
Clipped from - The Victoria Daily Times newspaper - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - 15 October 1920 - SEATTLE - VICTORIA AIRMAIL SERVICE TO START FRIDAY - Hubbard in Boeing Seaplane Will Bring Last Minute Mails For Africa Mam. Seattle, Oct. 13. - Announcement was made yesterday, by Edward McGrath. superintendent of railway mail service for Northwest states, that the first official seaplane trip carrying mail to Victoria. B.C., will be made next Friday afternoon. The plane, piloted by Edward Hubbard who was awarded the contract for the service on October 3, will leave at 2.30 o'clock on Friday afternoon. The flight will be the first official International mail delivery made under a United States mail contract. Service between Key West, Fla., and Havana, scheduled for next Friday, has been postponed until November 1, post office officials here were, informed today.
Sworn in as Mail Carrier. Pilot Hubbard was sworn in before Postmaster Edgar Battle this morning as a United States mail carrier. The pilot and Superintendent McGrath will leave tonight for Victoria to arrange a few remaining details of the service connected with handling the mails in Victoria Harbor. Mail to be carried Friday afternoon from Seattle will be placed aboard the steamship Africa Maru, which sails at 5 p.m. on Friday after noon from Victoria for Japan. The consignment will be eastern mail which arrives on the eastern mail train Friday morning, too late to be sent ahead to Victoria, and such Seattle mails as may collect during the morning here. International seaplane mail service between Seattle and Victoria, was authorized last June by Otto Praeger, second assistant postmaster general, after an inspection trip made in the Northwest. The service, according to Superintendent McGrath, will expedite delivery here of mail arriving at Victoria for Seattle, and coming in from the Orient and the Antipodes by a fun business day.
Outgoing Mail. Outgoing mail, arriving here too late on the day of sailings from Victoria to be placed aboard mail trains, will be expedited to the Orient by two weeks in some cases, by the sea plane service. Pilot Hubbard's contract calls for trips, not in excess of ten each month, to be made between Seattle and Victoria. He is using planes purchased from the Boeing Airplane Company, and will make temporary use or the Boeing hangar at the foot of Roanoke Street, Lake Union. Mall for the trip Friday will leave the post office building at 2 o'clock, and will be delivered to the pilot by Postmaster Battle. A number of post office officials will see the start of the initial flight. Not only will local mall be benefited, but Eastern mail arriving several hours after the departure of vessels for the Orient will make connections at Victoria. The capacity of the Boeing flying boat which Hubbard will operate is 600 pounds, or from ten to fifteen sacks of mail, carrying from 60,000 to 70,000 letters. It is expected that Friday's cargo will be light, due to information as to revised schedules not having reached Eastern post offices. After operations are fully regulated. Eastern postmasters will be advised to extend the dispatching time of mail for Far Eastern points.
To Bring Tahiti Mail. Hubbard will bring his first consignment of trans-Pacific mail from Victoria on Saturday, when the Tahiti, from Australia, docks at about 9 a.m. Ordinarily mail from the Tahiti Would not arrive in Seattle in time for Saturday distribution, but under the new order it may be expected on Saturday afternoon. Seattle and vicinity will have first consideration in delivery of mall from Victoria. Portland will have second place, San Francisco third. Chicago fourth and New York fifth. If a trans-Pacific steamer brings as much as 600 pounds of first-class mail for Seattle, that consignment to other cities will take the usual route, If only 500 pounds is consigned to this district, then 100 pounds of Portland mail will be carried, and so on,
Well Known Here. Eddie Hubbard is well known here, where he has been a welcome visitor on many occasions in both flying boats and seaplanes of the Boeing Aeroplane Company, Ltd., handed out to the waiting aircraft, with motor truck as ferry service. He will thus make the service both ways, as his contract calls for the out and inbound mail carrying, Ten trips a month until June 1, of 1921, with a maximum of 600 pounds per load, are the other features of the novel contract. Hubbard with Edward McGrath, superintendent of railway mall service in Seattle; and J. O. McLeod, superintendent R. M. S. at Vancouver, were in this city yesterday afternoon, completing arrangements, and arrived at a settlement of the system that was satisfactory to all. By these arrangements the Canadian participation in the aerial mall service is confined to co-operation and courtesy in handling the bags here, and in clearing the visiting aircraft.
Value of Service. With the arrival in Seattle of Oriental mail matter, one hour after the vessel reaches this port, that city is given a distinct advantage over its larger and rival city to the South, a fact that led the business Interests of the Sound ports to back their postal authorities strongly in the successful campaign for the establishment of the first letter mail service to expedite communications with the Orient. It is obvious from the working of to-day's service, that mails from Seattle will often catch their boat, where formerly they would have to be held some days until the next sailing was due to leave.
Seattle. Oct. 15, 1920 - To give Seattle an opportunity, to send letters to friends In Victoria, B. C. by means of the new international mail plane service, the first to be established by the United States, a special pouch carrying Victoria mail only will be sent on the initial flight to the British Columbia city this afternoon, according to Assistant Postmaster Charles M. Perkins. Letters mailed in Seattle up to noon Friday will be delivered at the proper addresses in Victoria on the same day. according to Perkins. Though the service is established solely to speed up the dispatch of mails to and from the Orient and Antipodes, local mails will be carried between Seattle and Victoria when the overseas mail is not too heavy, it was announced.
First Aero-Stamp. Each letter for Victoria mailed before noon today will be rushed to the terminal station on King Street, where the letters will be given a special stamp, reading "Seattle-Victoria seaplane mail." Victoria mail and mail for the Orient will be placed In special pouches and promptly at 1:15 this afternoon will be loaded on a mail truck and speeded to the Boeing hangar at the foot of Roanoke Street, on Lake Union.
The Lockheed Martin T-50A is soaring over Greenville, South Carolina with flight operations now underway. The initial test flight took place Nov. 19.
The T-50A was announced as the official Lockheed Martin/Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) offering for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Pilot Training (APT)/T-X competition in February, and Greenville was announced as the final assembly and checkout facility (FACO). lockheedmartin.com/t50a
Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, today celebrated the first Connecticut-built CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter that will be delivered to the U.S. Marine Corps. This helicopter, which moves more troops and cargo more rapidly from ship to shore, was the first all digitally designed helicopter.
The CH-53K’s digital thread runs from design through production, maintenance, and sustainment, increasing mission availability while reducing pilot and crew workload.
This King Stallion™ helicopter will be stationed at Marine Corps Aviation Station New River in Jacksonville, North Carolina where Marines will conduct training flights and support the fleet with heavy-lift missions with the aircraft in preparation for the CH-53K’s first deployment in 2024. This heavy-lift helicopter is part of a 200 aircraft Program of Record for the Marine Corps with a total of 33 aircraft currently on contract and an additional nine on contract for long lead parts.
The CH-53K is the only sea-based, long range, heavy-lift helicopter in production and will immediately provide three times the lift capability of its predecessor.
The CH-53K will further support the U.S. Marine Corps in its mission to conduct expeditionary heavy-lift assault transport of armored vehicles, equipment and personnel to support distributed operations deep inland from a sea-based center of operations, critical in the Indo-Pacific region.
The new CH-53K has heavy-lift capabilities that exceed all other DoD rotary wing-platforms, and it is the only heavy-lifter that will remain in production through 2032 and beyond.
Additional information: www.lockheedmartin.com/ch53k.
9th October 2008 - Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4 ZJ948 tests the EJ200's prior to its maiden flight. Despite being delivered to RAF Coningsby on the 8th January 2009 this aircraft has never flown since and images of it are quite rare...
It was rumoured that this airframe will rotate with one of 1435 Flights aircraft down in the Falklands when maintenance time is required on the original Typhoons already based down there.
That never transpired and ZJ948 became part of the Sustainment fleet, stripped for spares to keep other aircraft running.
Bae are set to do a feasibility study to see what it would take to get this airframe and 5 others like it back into the air. So who knows, we may get to see this Typhoon in the air once more.
The first osprey chick (out of three) fledged at Eagle Lakes Park, Naples, FL this morning. The nest is on top of the lights at the West side of the baseball field.
Its first flight was to the next pole - they are about 60 feet apart. It stayed there occasionally exercising its wings. Then after a couple of hours, the male adult came along and pushed it off that perch so it flew to the next pole but it tried to land on the lamp and just fell off.
It managed to get to the next pole but then it had real trouble. It was near a mockingbird's nest so the poor thing was attacked for an hour with the mockingbird hitting it really hard. This was all a new experience for the chick - it didn't know what to do but left for another pole eventually.
To make things worse, the adults didn't feed the fledgling but they did start taking fishes into the nest for the other two chicks!!!
More pictures in first comments!