Alberto Savio The need has always been felt to get the correspondence to its destination as quickly as possible: an attempt to transport it by post by balloon was made in the United States as early as 1859 from Indiana to New York. However, it was only at the end of the 1920s that theContinue reading “Interrupted flights’ mail”
Category Archives: Thematic Channels
One hundred years ago 1910
Bruna Corsari 1910 is the year of the Pioneers, a fundamental year for the aerophilatelists who collect the flights of the pioneers. It is the richest year in aviation events organized in fourteen Italian cities from North to South, from spring to autumn: in Firenze, Palermo, Genova, Mantova, Ferrara, Napoli, Bologna, Verona, Parma, Vercelli, Pescara,Continue reading “One hundred years ago 1910”
Air mail was born 150 years ago
Ferdinando Giudici HISTORICAL CONTEXT At the beginning of 1870, Prussia, headed by King William I, proposed Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern’s candidacy to the throne of Spain. France, with the Emperor Louis Napoleon III is opposed, fearing an encirclement by the Germanic Empire.On July 2nd, 1870, the French Ambassador Count Vincent de Benedetti met King WilliamContinue reading “Air mail was born 150 years ago”
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”
Airship LZ.127 “GRAF ZEPPELIN” the flight to ROME
Flavio Riccitelli Introduction To keep alive the attention of world public opinion on the airship and in particular on the LZ.127 “Graf Zeppelin”, which had started a long series of regular commercial flights to South America with transport of passengers, goods and mail, was its short flight to Rome, carried out in May 1933 beforeContinue reading “Airship LZ.127 “GRAF ZEPPELIN” the flight to ROME”
The Monaco air rallye
Romano Bini This event was organized by the Sporting Club of Monaco. In addition to being a sporting competition, the rallye aimed to study the possibility of establishing rapid connections between the Principality and the most important European cities. The regulation provided for the departure of planes from seven cities: Brussels, Gotha, London, Madrid, Milan,Continue reading “The Monaco air rallye”
Welcome to ZEPPELIN mail collecting
John Duggan John Duggan was a famous English scholar who published numerous studies and books on Zeppelins as well as editor for many years of the magazine “Zeppelin” (A Study Group Newsletter). Without his passion which led to the writing of several publications, future Zeppelin collectors would not have been able to count on aContinue reading “Welcome to ZEPPELIN mail collecting”
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”