What is Aerophilately?

Egil H. Thomassen Aerophilately represents the study of ihe development of air mail services and a collection of documents pertaining to such development. Or, expressed in another way, Aerophilately is a postal and philatelic mirror of the history of aviation and the airplane’s influence on the world’s communication system. In parallel with the development ofContinue reading “What is Aerophilately?”

Flying through history: aerophilately or better … aerophily

Fiorenzo Longhi Since the first edition, in 1998, I have titled my “Aerofilia Italiana” catalog by coining a neologism and meaning by this new term not only the chronological listing of air mail transports (Aerophilately) but also of the aeronautical events whose there are collectible paper memories by memory of the flight. It is importantContinue reading “Flying through history: aerophilately or better … aerophily”

The aeropostal history
a land still to be explored

Flavio Riccitelli The study presented here in the form of an article is taken from a presentation entitled “Some contributions to better understand Aeropostale History”, made in Prato, at the Institute of Historical Postal Studies, on February 23, 2008 as part of the V Postal History Colloquium, a day of study that saw 14 expertsContinue reading “The aeropostal history
a land still to be explored”