b'63423 424423C KINGSFORD SMITH & THE SOUTHERN CROSS FLY TO NEW ZEALAND: January 1934 (AAMC.350): A Kingsford Smith Air Service Ltd envelope carried on the third trans-Tasman flight in the Southern Cross, cancelled before departure at MASCOT on January 12th, and cancelled on arrival at NEW PLYMOUTH on January 15th. The envelope, part of a very small mail carried on the flight is signed by Kingsford Smith. Other crew members were P.G. Taylor, T. Pethybridge and John Stannage. .$500600424C 11 May 1934 (AAMC.379) Australia - New Zealand Faith in Australia Goodwill Flight cover, signed by the pilot, Charles Ulm, being $124 of 250 flown. Sydney departure and Wellington arrival postmarks$200250425 Ex 430425C October 1934 (AAMC.433) England - Australia MacRobertson Air Race cover carried by the winning entry DH66 Comet Grosvenor House in a total elapsed time of 71 hours and signed by both pilots CWA Scott and Tom Campbell Black on the back. Posted back to England with 6d Air, Victorian Centenary 2d and 3d pair tied by REGISTERED/24OC34/MELBOURNE datestamp with black/blue registration label alongside, fine condition; 100 flown - Cat. $1,250. .$600750426C October 1934 (AAMC.434) MacRobertson Air Race cover, flown and signed by Roscoe Turner, who came 3rd in the race from London to Melbourne. $100150427C 20 Oct.1934 (AAMC.438) MacRobertson Air Race cover, flown and signed by Cyrus Kay in his Dragon DH89 Rapide Tainui. Cat.$150. $120150428C PC 20 Oct. 1934 (AAMC.444) MacRobertson Air Race Holland-Australia official mail carried on KLM DC2 Uiver, stamps tied by HAARLEM 17X/1934; datestamps, flight time of 90 hours 13minutes confirmed by MELBOURNE 24OC34 arrival backstamp. Also a real-photo unused postcard showing a plaque dedicated by citizens of The Netherlands to inhabitants of Albury for allowing the Uiver to land in Albury during in the Race when in great danger.Also a UIVER CRASH MAIL cover for a flight departing Amsterdam for Melbourne on 19th December 1934, crashing after departing Cairo for Gaza, redirecting to Rutbah Wells where it encountered a sandstorm crashing 10 miles south of the destination; a sizeable proportion of the mail (approx 31,000 articles) was recovered and loaded on board KLM Fokker Rijstvogel for onward journey to Dutch East Indies, with the Australian portion of the mail being transferred to Imperial Airways service IE301 at Singapore on 30th Dec, arriving at Darwin on 31st Dec. Mail for southern states was transferred to a scheduled New England Airways flight, which is confirmed by the MELBOURNE 5JA35 arrival backstamp on this cover. [Ref. Brian Peace Australasian Crash Mail 1931-35]$250350'