b'61412412C Oct.1927 - Mar.1928 (AAMC.112) Darwin - Charleville registered cover, flown by Captain W.A. Lancaster & Mrs Keith Miller on the final leg of their flight from England in their Avro Avian 111. The cover is signed at left by Lancaster and was then forwarded by regular mail to the addressee in Melbourne, arriving 4 days later. Rare. Cat.$1000+.Mrs Miller was the first woman to travel by air from England to Australia. $600800413C May - June 1929 series of flown covers, all self-addressed to J.C. Westhoven, Deputy Director, Posts & Telegraphs, Melbourne and utilizing the services of A.A.S. and the newly established QANTAS routes. Despatches from Narrandera, Broken Hill, Toowoomba, Longreach, Roma, Tambo, Winton, Blackall, Camooweal & Mt. Isa. All correctly franked at 4d. (10).Westhoven had been responsible for the introduction of a new mail delivery protocol: His letter informing postal officials read as follows On 1st February, 1928, a new system of address under which a Postal District Number placed after the name of the suburb, will indicate the proper office of delivery. Thus, N. 1. will indicate the area served from the North Melbourne Post Office, S. 2. the area served from St. Kilda. If the correct Post District Number is placed upon a letter, it can easily and accurately be sorted for the proper office. .$250300414C The June 1929 inaugural flights by W.A. Airways Ltd.: (AAMC.137a) Ceduna - Adelaide, and Kalgoorlie - Perth flown intermediates; the latter cover addressed to Germany with BERLIN arrival cds of 8 July. (2 covers). $150200415415C EYRE PENINSULA AIRWAYS INAUGURAL FLIGHTS: 19 August 1929 (AAMC.143a) Wallaroo - Cowell flown cover, carried on the Junkers F13 VH-UKW and signed by the pilot, James Mollison. One of only two covers carried on this leg, both signed by the pilot. Cat.$600.In 192829, Morrison was working as an instructor with the South Australian Aero Club in Adelaide, leaving that position to become a pilot with Eyre Peninsula Airways and Australian National Airways. Whilst gaining a reputation as a playboy, Mollison was a skilled pilot who, like many others, took to record breaking as a means of making his name. In JulyAugust 1931, Mollison set a record time of 8 days, 19 hours for a flight from Australia to England, and in March 1932, a record for flying from England to Cape Town, in 4 days, 17 hours. Mollison had flown commercially for Charles Kingsford Smiths ill-fated Australian National Airways. During one of his commercial flights, he met the equally famous aviator Amy Johnson, whom he proposed to only eight hours after meeting her, and while still in the air. Johnson accepted; they married in July 1932, and she went off to break her husbands England to South Africa record. They were dubbed The Flying Sweethearts by the press and public. $400500'