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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n2008 Program<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As highlighted above, our event was part of the wider context of the Milanofil conference, alongside other philatelic events, such as the final of Campionato Cadetti, where Poste Italiane welcomed us with enthusiasm, thanks to the availability of Dr. Silvana Zeppieri and Mr. Danilo Bogoni for their constant help, allowing us to have a special exhibition space for the showcases destined to contain the twenty-seven collections of the exhibiting members. Mostly unpublished collections, celebrating aeronautical events that had taken place in Milan, which the audience appreciated and carefully viewed. The special postcard, published by our association, bore a drawing by the painter Ugo Farina on the reverse, which portrayed the AIDA logo repeated in a spiral fifty times, offering a very good idea of the path and the path taken until then. As can also be seen from the design of the cancellation, the \u201cDay\u201d on this occasion wanted to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the first flight experiments in Italy, carried out by Leon Delagrange on June 11st 1908 in Milan. An event that is also remembered by a stele placed outside the Fair in 1935, on the occasion of the International Air Show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then at 10.00 the meeting of the AIDA members In a room below, the “green” room, 25 members met to discuss important topics concerning the association. But before each word, the President Costantino Gironi invited all present to a minute of meditation to remember the missing members.
The days were not those of official ceremonies, but a friendly gathering of Italian aerophilatelists.
The inauguration took place on Friday 7 March and the post office attached to the exhibition stamped the correspondence with the cancellation of the “fiftieth anniversary”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.aida-aerofilatelia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2008-Cartolina-Annullo-1-recto-1024x723.jpg\")
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On Saturday March 8th, another postmark, this time dedicated to the 40th “Aerophilatelia Day”, always available at the post office, using the same postcards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.aida-aerofilatelia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2008-Cartolina-verso-1024x720.jpg\")
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Many topics were discussed, concerning the life, especially the future, of our association. But then, having ascertained the presence of one of the founding members, Giovanni Desimoni, it was obligatory to invite him to make his voice heard on the fifty years he constantly lived in the ranks of the association. According to him, the observation that AIDA has always kept the lines drawn fifty years earlier over time, without betraying the sentiments that had animated the founding members, was a very welcome note.
While the men were busy philatelically, in the afternoon a side initiative, dedicated to the spouses, was much appreciated: the masterfully guided cultural visit to the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, in which a cultured nobleman, who lived towards the middle of the 1800s, lover of collecting and of art, he transformed his home into a museum of paintings, sculptures, carpets, porcelain, goldsmiths, fabrics, weapons, which later became public heritage.
On Sunday March 9th, the “fiftieth anniversary” lunch, which was attended by 34 people, which was followed by the awarding of all exhibitors, the writers of the articles prepared for the single issue and those who collaborated in the success of the event, to which a finely engraved tray was delivered, contained in a special case.
Finally, with the help of the Italphil company in Rome, after those in Rome in 2005 and Orbetello in 2006, a single number of eighty pages was created, which differs from the previous ones due to the high number of color reproductions that accompany the articles on various aerofilatelic topics, all very interesting. A publication that can appear very well in the library of an aerofilatelist or sympathizer. It collects fourteen articles by our members, on various topics of aerophilately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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