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Aerophilately is the branch of philately that specializes in the study of airmail. Philatelists have observed the development of mail transport by air from its beginning, and all aspects of airmail service have been extensively studied and documented by specialists. Close examination of the Penny Red, left, reveals a 148 in the margin, indicating that it was printed with plate #148. ...
Airmail (or air mail) is mail that is transported by aircraft. ...
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 This 1932 Canadian "first official flight" cover, Great Bear Lake to Rae, includes both a special cachet and a surcharged airmail stamp. The scope of aerophilately includes: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x582, 171 KB) Front of Canadian first flight cover of 1932, scanned by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Aerophilately User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Philately ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x582, 171 KB) Front of Canadian first flight cover of 1932, scanned by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Aerophilately User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Philately ...
Great Bear Lake, NWT, Canada Great Bear Lake (Sahtu) is the largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada and the fourth largest in North America. ...
Rae was a Formula One constructor (Indy 500 only) in 1950. ...
In philately, a cachet is a picture or design, other than a cancellation or pre-printed postage on the envelope, postcard, postal card or other cover, that can be purely decorative, or commemorative. ...
- airmail postage stamps, both official and unofficial
- other types of labels (such as airmail etiquettes)
- postal documents transmitted by air
- postal markings related to air transport
- rates and routes, particularly first flights and other "special" flights
- mail recovered from aircraft accidents and other incidents (crash covers)
While most of the study of airmail assumes transport by fixed-wing aircraft, the fields of balloon mail, dirigible mail, zeppelin mail, missile mail, and rocket mail are active subspecialties. Astrophilately, the study of mail in space, is a related area. This 1974 stamp from Japan depicts a Class 8620 steam locomotive. ...
An airmail etiquette, often shortened to just etiquette, is an adhesive label used to indicate that a letter is to be sent by airmail. ...
A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. ...
A crash cover, also known as an air accident cover or interrupted flight cover, is a cover (envelope) that has been recovered from an airplane or airship crash or other accident. ...
Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as airplanes in North American English and aeroplanes in Commonwealth English. ...
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Cover sent from Chemnitz, Germany to Sausalito, California on the first North American flight of the Hindenburg, 6-9 May 1936. ...
USS Barbero (SS/A/G-317) was a Balao-class submarine of the United States Navy, named for a family of fishes commonly called surgeon fish. ...
A Regulus cruise missile was used for one attempt to deliver mail. ...
Aerophilatelists have formed a number of organizations around the world; many of them put out a variety of specialized publications. Their umbrella organization is the FISA. FISA is an acronym for: Fédération Internationale des Sociétés dAviron (International Rowing Federation) Fédération International du Sport Automobile (commonly known as the FIA) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Organizations FISA is an acronym for: Fédération Internationale des Sociétés dAviron (International Rowing Federation) Fédération International du Sport Automobile (commonly known as the FIA) Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
References - Cheryl Ganz, ed. Collecting Air Mail (American Air Mail Society)
- American Air Mail Catalogue (AAMS, 6th ed. 1998)
- Canadian Air Mail Catalogue (AAMS)
- Thomas J. O'Sullivan, The Pioneer Airplane Mails of the United States (AAMS)
- Victor C. Berecz, Jr., The Pioneer Period of Hungarian Air Mail (AAMS)
- William Victor Kriebel, A History of the Development of Air Mail Service in Brazil (AAMS)
- William J. Murphy, Irish Airmail 1919-1990 (Irish Airmail Society, 1996)
- Ronny Vogt, Irish Crash Airmail 2nd Ed. (Irish Airmail Society, 1997)
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