Evolution of Flight

Evolution of Flight

My Evolution of Flight exhibit starts with Kites.  Then sky lanterns, Hot air balloons, dirigibles, Gliders, Powered flights, Military aviation, Helicopters, different varieties of carried covers and letters, First flight covers, Special aircraft like C17, AWACS, VTOL, Guppy, and Shuttle carriers.

I am finding it hard to locate stamps/covers related to Guppy/Beluga-type planes, large heavy lift aircraft, STS 8 flown-in space covers, Night flight covers, Gliders, and Lanterns.

I am sharing my "Flights of Fancy" collection here.  Any comments and suggestions are very much appreciated.  So far I have stamps from 53 countries. 

Chinese and Taiwan kites

Africa

Alderney

Alderney - Flights - Aurigny

Alderney - Flights - Bailiwick


 Alderney - Flights - War

America (United States)

On 23 September 1911, Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the United States in a Blériot XI.    Earle Lewis Ovington, was an American aeronautical engineer, aviator, and inventor, and served as a lab assistant to Thomas Edison.  Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the United States in a Blériot XI on 23 September 1911.   He carried a sack of mail from Nassau Boulevard aerodrome, Garden City, New York to Mineola, New York.   He circled at 500 feet and tossed the bag over the side of the cockpit and the sack burst on impact,  scattering letters and postcards. He delivered 640 letters and 1,280 postcards, including a letter to himself  from the United States Post Office Department designating him as "Official Air Mail Pilot #1."

Looking for  Earl Ovington-related materials.

The below $11.75 stamp has the hidden inscriptions, 

"ENTERPRISE/COLUMBIA/CHALLENGER/ATLANTIS/ENDEAVOR/DISCOVER"

$11.75 Definitive Express mail rate stamp features a space shuttle ridding piggy back on a modern Boeing 747 was issued on 19th November 1998. 

Commemorates the 100th anniversary of the first carriage of airmail in the United States on the hot-air balloon Jupiter. The balloon was flown by John Wise from Lafayette to Crawfordsville, Indiana, on August 17, 1859. There were 123 letters eventually mailed this way, and as of 1980, 23 are still known to exist.

Issue Date: August 17,1959

Ajman

Antigua

Australia

1927 - Airmail

1965 50th Anniversary of the Death of Lawrence Hargrave.  

Hargrave's greatest contribution to aeronautics was the invention of the box or cellular kite. His box kite appears to be the inspiration for  Alberto Santos Dumont's aircraft named '14bis', which undertook the first powered, controlled flight in Europe in 1906.   Similarly, Gabriel Voisin and his brother Charles, who manufactured the first commercially available aircraft in Europe,  owe their inspiration to their construction of a Hargrave box kite.

9th April 1998, Royal Australian Navy

Coral Sea Battle 

19th February 1992

The centenary of the first flight from England to Australia by Adelaide's own Ross and Keith Smith. This flight also brought the first international airmail to Australia. 

Issued on 29th August 1994

29th August 1994, Freda Thompson

The first woman to fly solo from the UK to Australia

Kitty Hawk, 26th February 1996

WWII Flight 

100th Anniversary of the Powered Flight - Overprint London 2010 International stamp exhibition

First Trans-Pacific Flight - US mainland to Australia

The below MS was issued on April 9th, 1978 by Australian Post to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of that historic flight.  (Scott 675a)

2014 100th Anniversary of 1st Air Mail

50th Anniversary of Australian Army Parachute Rigger (Used FDC)

12th April 2016

Air Force Aviation, issued in 22nd February 2011

Top F111 and  F/A 18F

Bottom Wedgetail and  C-17

The F-111 was a multipurpose tactical fighter bomber capable of supersonic speeds.

F/A-18F capable of providing an upgraded air combat capability for both air-to-air and air-to-ground mission.

Wedgetail has  Multi-Role Electronically Scanned Array (MESA) radar technology and provides an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) platform that can gather information from a wide variety of sources, analyse it and distribute it to other air and surface assets.  They can cover four million square kilometres during a single 10 hour mission.

The C-17 is a tactical and strategic airlifter, transporting troops and cargo.

Cocos(Keeling)Islands Aviation MS

Austria

2018 The 100th Anniversary of the First Air Mail

                                              Hansa - Brandenburg C1 aircraft

The Hansa-Brandenburg C1, also known as Type LDD, was a 2-seater  armed single-engine reconnaissance biplane designed by Ernst Heinkel, Dr. Ernst Heinkel (24 January 1888 – 30 January 1958)was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. His company  Heinkel Flugzeugwerke produced the Heinkel He 178,  the world's first turbojet-powered aircraft,  and the Heinkel He 176, the first rocket aircraft.

2023 Historic Aircrafts

From Federal Police Directorate Addressed to "District Captain"

die bezirkshauptmannschaft - The District captain

bundes polizeidirektion - Federal Police Directorate

heissluft luftschiff WM - hot air airship WM

Schielleiteh region schloesster strasse - Schielleiteh region castle street

Post gebuhr bar bezahlt - Postage fee paid in cash

http://www.wydera.de/balloon/history1.htm

The picture shows the first manned balloon ascent in Austria, carried out by Johann Georg Stuwer

 International Airmail Exhibition (IFA), Vienna - 1968

The Luft-Limousine, also known as Etrich VIII Luft-Limousine, was a single-engine monoplane built by the Etrich company in Silesia in 1912.  It was an aircraft with a cabin for one pilot and a single passenger that was enclosed with wire gauze and celluloid windows, the reason for which Igo Etrich named it Luft-Limousine.  The Luft-Limousine was the first military monoplane with an enclosed cabin.  During World War I the Luft-Limousine was used by the Austro-Hungarian army.

Orange - 1958 First Flight of the Austrian Airlines "AUA"

Blue - Austria 1961 FIRST AUSTRIAN MAIL PLANE (bi-plane)

Azores

4th September 2014, Aircrafts of Azores

Below Azores depicts Lockheed Constellation and Douglas c 47

Above Azore 2 stamps depicts Boeing 314 Clipper, Hawker Siddeley HS 748 "AVRO"

Barbuda

Barbuda

Douglas DC 8 directed by ground crewman on runway ICAO(Intl. Civil Aviation Org.) emblem on stamp

Belarus

Belgium

Belgium 1976  - 75th Anniversary of Royal Belgian Aeroclub

In 1910, The Aeroclub of Belgium organized a flying week in Brussels at the Stokkel Hippodrome.  11 Belgian pilots were listed on the program, Jan Olieslagers established a new world record flying at a height of 1524 meters.

Image later

Belgium - Hot air Ballooning

Issued :September, 5th, 2015

Old Aeroplanes

Issued 26th February 1994 

Bhutan

Brasil/Brazil

150th Birth Anniversary of Alberto Santos

Brasil/Brazil

100th Aniv of the 1st flight across the South Atlantic

Year 2000, Embraer post and go self adhesive stamps

2660A - 2660 K Yvert catalogue

Embraer is the 3rd largest producer of civil aircrafts after Boeing and Airbus

Aviation Anniversaries 1977

The 75th Anniversary of "Pax" Flight

The 50th Anniversary of "Jahu" South Atlantic Crossing

1956 Airmail - The 50th Anniversary of

 the Dumont's First Heavier-than-air Flight

The British Virgin Islands

British Indian Ocean Territory

Bulgaria

Nadar flies in a hot air balloon to take some aerial photographs of Paris. In February 1856, Félix TOURNACHON, better known under the name of NADAR (1820-1910) flew over Paris in  a hot air balloon, opening a new page in the history of photography. The original photograph was taken at a height of 520 meters at the Petit Clamart outside of Paris. In 1937, the lithographic stone of this print was shown in an exhibition of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art in Philadelphia. It was lent out by the Weyhe Gallery in New York

Issued in 1989 for 150th Anniversary of Photography

Burundi

Canada

Kites Booklet 

Issued on 1st October 1999

Bottom information printed on the booklet

Kites FDC

Back side of kites FDC

Graham Bell, the inventor of Telephones formed the Aerial Experiment Association and developed several flying machines, including the Silver Dart.  Silver Dart was the first powered machine flown in Canada.

Canada Post issued five stamps to honour Canadian pilots, designers and aircraft that made civilian and military aviation history. The stamp issue was developed with the support of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum – one of three museums under the Ingenium brand.

One of the five stamps commemorates First World War pilot William George Barker, VC, who remains the most decorated member of the military in the history of Canada and the British Empire. Barker flew more than 900 combat hours between 1916 and 1918 and is credited with 50 victories over enemy aircraft.

Another stamp celebrates aviation pioneer and bush pilot C.H. “Punch” Dickins, who logged more than 1.6 million kilometres flying over northern Canada. The First World War flying ace and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient made the first reconnaissance flight across the unmapped Barren Lands of the Northwest Territories.

Elizabeth “Elsie” MacGill is also celebrated in the new stamp issue. She was the first woman in Canada to receive a degree in electrical engineering; and first in the world to hold a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering and to work as a professional aircraft designer. Canada Post explains she was dubbed Queen of the Hurricanes in a wartime comic book for her work in overseeing design refinements and production of Hawker Hurricanes. The fighter plane critical in the Second World War, and especially in the Battle of Britain.

The Lazair, a family of twin-engine, high-wing ultralight monoplanes designed by Dale Kramer of Port Colborne, Ontario, is also featured on one of the five new stamps. Manufactured as kits in Canada between 1979 and 1985, Canada Post explains the Lazair is still considered one of the best light aircraft ever made. Kramer received the Roméo Vachon Award in 1983 for outstanding contribution to the development of aeronautics in Canada.

Finally, the twin-engine, supersonic Avro CF-105 Arrow interceptor, which could fly at more than twice the speed of sound is commemorated in the stamp issue. Canada Post explains the CF-105 Arrow is considered one of the greatest technological achievements in Canadian aviation history. Some of its innovative technologies are still in use today.

The stamp issue, designed by Ivan Novotny of Taylor|Sprules and printed by the Lowe-Martin Group

  

Chile

Central Africa

China

China - Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition

Comoro Island

In 1977 Comoro Island issued 6 stamps under

 History of communications - Airships and Railways.

  Giffard's dirigible is one among the 6 and is used on the below cover sent from Comoro to France.

Cuba

25th Anniversary of the World's first Rocket mail stamp FDC

Czech Republic

Czechoslovak pilots in the Royal Air Force - 2019

Top: Air squadron badges

Bottom: Frantisek Perina (1911 - 2006)

https://www.276.cz/en/perute-ceskoslovenskych-prislusniku-royal-air-force-2/

The second Airplane is Metodej Vlach, issued on 18th February 2015 under the Historical Vehicles series

The second stamp shows a Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk IXE.  Issued on 20th January 2015 as part of 4 postage stamps under the theme "They Brought Freedom"

Columbia

Congo

Cypress - Greek

2021 Aviation History

2023 Aerial Fire fighting (Joint issue with Isreal)

Djibouti

Dominica

Emirates

"History of Aviation in Dubai" issued on 7th December 2014.  The first stamp depicts a short s.23 Empire flying boat

Fiji

WWII aircrafts

Fiji 1981 World War II Aircraft 4 value set featuring Bell P-39 Airacobra,

 Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina Flying Boat,

 Curtiss P-40E Warhawk and Short Singapore III

Finland

France

France South Atlantic Territory

1981 Alouette II Helicopter

Helice Eclair

The below Helice Eclair stamp depicts the Wooden Lightning Helix in the foreground and in color. The plane, a Spad VII, is evoked in black pencil to enhance the mythical propeller whose 100 years are celebrated. Dassault Aviation's centennial figures and Rafale, Falcon, and nEUROn aircraft, symbolizing the company's present and future, leave their silhouettes and traces in metallic blue.

Helice in French for a propeller.  Eclair was the maker.

Sopwith reconnaissance aircraft too has a wooden propeller.

 

1913 – Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).

2023 Jacuqes Gernerin and Jeanne Labrosse

Jacuqes Gernerin - Inventor of the hydrogen balloon

Jeanne Labrosse - Said to be the first woman in the world to fly in a balloon

Gambia

Germany

The most important airfield for DLH was Berlin Tempelhof. From there a Fokker F.II took off on 6 April 1926 for the first scheduled flight to Zürich via Halle, Erfurt and Stuttgart.  The below cancellation shows 90th year of opening of Berlin Tempelhof , Zurich scheduled flights by Lufthansa.

Pic soon

Above is a Souvenir-cover from "Grosstauschta"-Big stamp exchange event.  In 80's Zeppelin thematics are very popular. Hope they issued because of popularity at that time.  In India Souvenir covers are also called as Special covers. 

Hansa, the first international flight by a DELAG ship, traveling from Hamburg to Copenhagen and back on September 19, 1912.  Hansa’s first flight was on July 12, 1912, and it carried over 8,200 people on almost 400 flights, mostly from Hamburg and Postdam, but on occassion from other cities such as Leipzig, Gotha, and Berlin.  Hansa was last based in Dresden until the outbreak of World War I, when it too was transferred to the Army as a training ship.

During 2 years of commercial DELAG service it carried 6,217 passengers on 399 flights, covering 44,437 Kms.

7th World Hot Air Airship Championship was held in the Schloesserstrasse (Schielleiten) in Styria, Austria from September 1-10,  2000 under the directorship of Neil Robertson (GBR).  And the winner of the tournament is Jacques Besnard (Switzerland).

Cover sent from  Federal police headquarters to the district administration

1st Row:1978 Youth Hostel Aviation

2nd Row:1979 Youth Hostel Aviation

3rd Row:1980 Youth Hostel Aviation

4th Row:1990 Airmail exhibition 'Lilienthal 91'

 Historical Model planes (DDR)

5th Row(RHS 2 stamps):1972 Aviation 

 Airplanes and Helicopters(DDR)

1991 Historical Airmail 

F 13 is the first all metal aircraft, Licenced in US by John ....

        Germany (DDR) Airplanes and Helicopters

Issued in 2nd December 1969

The postmarks commemorates the 60th Gordon Bennett Cup, the object of the race is simply to fly the longest distance. The race started in Gladbeck, Germany in 2016.

First Day Card 1978

First Day Card 1979 

Private Souvenir card issued in 1984 to commemorate the Bi-Centenary of First Balloon flight (Mannhiem 12 February 1784).

Gibraltar

Entered service in 1953 and was the first turboprop-powered airliner.  Successful and profitable aircraft after WW II

The definitives were issued in 1982, but at the bottom of the 20p stamps "1985" is printed

1999 Wings of Prey - Military aircraft

Sea Planes

Top right Saunders-ROE Princess (1952)

bottom right Henri Fabre LE CANARD (1910 First Seaplane) Aircraft Stamp

Great Britain

Spitfire

Grenada

Bailiwick of Guernsey

Guernsey

Guinee

Hong Kong

1998 Chek Lap KoK Airport

1998 Chek Lap KoK Airport SS

1998 Kai Tak Airport Closure MS

Hungary

Hungary 1991 First Heavier-than-air Manned Flight 100th Anniversary 4 value set depicting Lilienthal and Gliders; Wright Brother's Flyer1; Santos-Dumont's "bis 14"; Aladar Zselyi's Monoplane.

Aladar Zselyi (Hungary) was the first to use a steering mechanism that could be used to control the aircraft in all directions. It has a sprung undercarriage and a safety skid mounted between the wheels.

1991 The 100th Anniversary of Airplanes

Italy

90th anniversary of the expedition of the dirigible 'Italia' to the north pole

India
Lt. Indra Lal Roy
S.E.5
 British Biplane fighter aircraft
 first flight on 22nd Nov 1916

Lt. H.S. Malik
Bristol F.2
 British 2 seat biplane fighter
 first flight 9th Sep 1916

Lt. S.C. Wellingkar 
Sopwith Dolphin
British single seater biplane fighter aircraft
Early 1918

Lt. E.S. Chunder Sen
Sopwith Camel
British single seat biplane fighter aircraft
First flight 1917

Balloon Carried cover

The 2nd Tamil Nadu International Balloon Festival was held in Pollachi in 2016.  A Hot Balloon Carried Cover was released on 03 Jan 2016. It was signed by the Pilot Mr. Gary Moore.  Only 1000 covers were issued and each one is numbered.

To commemorate the Centenary of Airmail, India Post issued 4 stamps and a Miniature sheet during Indipex 2011.  Airmail card, cover, and cancellations are depicted in one stamp, Another stamp depicts the path of the first flight( Allahabad exhibition ground to Naini junction) which carried Air mails, the third stamp features Humber-Sommer plane over the Yamuna river and the fourth stamp shows the portrait of Henri Piquet, Pilot with the front page of the New York Herald Tribune, (rival newspaper of New York Times at that time) announcing the commencement of the first airmail in the world.

     Issue Date: 12th February 2011

India - Special Cover - Flight

India - Special Cover - Aero show

India - Air Plane - Airborne Warning and control system

Indonesia

On 9th April, 1946 Indonesia formed its own Air Force named Angkatan Udara Republik Indonesia, AURI.  9th April was later proclaimed National Aviation Day in Indonesia.

Issued on April 9th 1967 for Aviation Day

Israel
Aviation in the Holy Land
 Issued on 2nd April 1985 

1998 Aircraft of War of Independence

Japan

Biplane Kaishiki No. 1 and Airship Yamadashiki No. 1

 (First Japanese Built Aircraft)

This was the first successful Japanese-designed and constructed airplane.   It was designed by Captain Yoshitoshi Tokugawa and was first flown by him on October 13, 1911, at Tokorozawa in Saitama Prefecture.

Hans Grade plane - Japan 2010

issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Japan's first successful powered flight in Yoyogi, Tokyo (1910)

Jersey
Air Show

Kazakhstan

2023 Aviation History

Lichtenstein

"Graf Zeppelin" LZ 127 - First Zeppelin Flight to Liechtenstein

First Airmail - St.Gallen to Schaan, 1930

Lithuania

Darius and Girenas were first Lithuanian Pilots who managed to cross the Atlantic Ocean without landing.  Unfortunately, they crashed in Poland when only 650Km were left from their destination.  This happened in 1933.  Lithuania Post issued stamps in memory of them in 1934.  More information can be learned at  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lituanica

Monaco

1964 Airplanes - 50th Anniversary of 1st Aerial Rally, Monte Carlo

Complete set, except the hight value Airmail stamp

 Norway

Poland

Warsaw Berlin(East Germany) Lufthansa First flight cover

Ilyushin Il-14

Warszawa Delhi LOT Airlines First flight cover

Warsaw Baghdad First Flight Cover 

Aircraft IL 62

The Ilyushin IL-62 (Russian: Илью́шин Ил-62; NATO reporting name: Classic) is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As successor to the popular turboprop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 passengers and crew, the Il-62 was the world's largest jet airliner when first flown in 1963. One of four pioneering long-range designs (the others being Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, and Vickers VC10), it was the first such type to be operated by the Soviet Union and a number of allied nations.

Portugal

Macau

1999 The 75th Anniversary of Sarmento de Beires and Brito Pais's first Portugal-Macau Flight

Overprinted for Amizade Luso-Chinese Festival 
(Macao return to China)

Airplanes: Breguet XIV Bn2 - "Patria"

Ordinary/ without overprint

Malaysia

Mexico

Leon International Balloon Festival, 2015

Issue Date:10th September 2015

Micronesia

2003 The 100th Anniversary of the Powered Flight

Moldova

SMURD emergency rescue team 347

issued on 4th June 2017

On 2 June 2016, a SMURD helicopter crashed near Haragîș in south-west Moldova, near the Romanian border, killing all four crew members on board.  In memory of the SMURD emergency rescue team killed in Moldova, Moldova post issued a stamp depicting 4 crew members and the helicopter. 

Mongolia

CTOs

Nauru

15th Anniversary of Air Nauru

Issued in February 26th 1985

Nicaragua

 

Philippines

Kite-flying, one of Philippines favorite hobbies.  Popular “Saranggola” kites which are usually made of bamboo sticks and plastic bags.  This "Kites of Philippines "series has 10 stamps, with the kites "in upward position flying across white clouds and blue skies with the word 'Pilipinas' in the background".  Only 120,000 copies printed in 23rd June, 2015.

Poland

Air show

Development of Air Traffic in Poland

15th April 1978              

 The Gordon Bennett sport ballooning championship 

25th March 1981

Jean Pierre Blanchard and John Jeffries ( 3rd stamp )made the first crossing of the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon, taking about two and hald hours from England to France, flying from Dover Castle to Guines, on 7th January 1785.

1984 Polish Air Flight History

Republic of Congo

Romania

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Russia

Although most people believe that the Russian inventor, Igor Sikorsky invented the helicopter, it was actually a French engineer by the name of Paul Cornu who designed and flew the first successful rotary-winged aircraft at Normandy, France in 1907.

Near Lisieux in northern France in 1907, Monsieur Cornu became the first person to (ever so briefly) pilot an airborne rotary-wing, vertical-lift aircraft. The rotorcraft (using an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift) from Cornu’s own design was a twin-rotor job,  the blades rotating in opposite directions which neutralized the torque. M. Cornu’s craft levitated about 1.5 meters off the ground, hovering for some 20 seconds.  The Cornu ”Ur-copter” wasn’t maneuverable at all (requiring manpower to hold it in position from the ground) and therefore wasn’t practical,  but it is considered to be a forerunner of the modern helicopter.

Etienne Oehmichen, whose early prototypes included vertically-mounted rotors and a tail rotor, allowing it to fly a distance of one kilometre in 1924!  Oehmichen was also the first to carry passengers in his Oehmichen No. 2 helicopter. 

1957 French Inventors "Etienne Oehmichen" stamp I am looking for.

By the early 1920s Spanish aviator and engineer  Juan De la Cierva built the autogyro (sometimes called a “windmill plane” or ‘gyroplane’)… his success advanced the understanding of rotor dynamics.

In 1936 Focke and Gerd Achgelis‘ Focke-Wulf Fw-61 smashed existing helicopter records for range and altitude and demonstrated autorotation descent to landing.  This plus a control system much more reliable and robust than earlier rotorcrafts leads many aviation geeks to consider the Fw-61 to be “the world’s first truly functional helicopter”.

Sikorsky is commonly thought of as “the father of helicopters” because  “he invented the first successful helicopter upon which further designs were based”. The VS-300 (commercial name R 4) became the model for all modern single-rotor helicopters.

Sikorsky was credited with developing the first “mass-produced” helicopter. 

The VS-300, the world’s first successful helicopter, is a predecessor of all modern choppers. Igor Sikorsky developed the first practical helicopter and was his own original flight test pilot. The first prototype of course had only one seat, in the center.  He flew on Sept. 14, 1939.

100th Anniversary of M L Mil

100th Anniversary of O K Antonov

Russian Federation issued a set of four postage stamps on 10 September 2015 showing "History of the First World War -National Military Equipment". One among them is the below, Sikorsky Ilya Muromets flight.

Russia - Flights - Tupolev

50th Anniv of Non Stop Flight by Rout Moscow - Far East airplane - 1986 - Russia USSR - unused

1963 Russian Aviation
A. F. Mozhaisky (1825-1890), P. N. Nesterov (1887-1914), N. E. Zhukovsky (1847-1921)

Samoa

Serbia

Sierra Leone

Singapore

Singapore 2019 

Slovakia

Issued in 2019 for the 75th Anniversary of the International civil aviation organization(ICAO)

Slovenia

2022 Panthera aircraft

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Aviation Centenary

Sweden

1911 - 1912 National coat of arms blocks 
Helicopter post from Lindarangen to vintervagen

Sweden paid tribute to its aviation history with the release of this small mint sheet of five stamps in 1984. The five-stamp designs depict the following aircraft: Top left, Thulin D Two-Seater (1915), top right SAAB-90 Scandia (1946), bottom left pilot Carl Gustaf Cederstrom with his Bleriot plane 1910), bottom right a Tomten seaplane (1927), and centre Carl Nyberg’s Flugan (1900).

Switzerland

Swiss Air Force Centenary 2014

Tanzania

McDonnell Douglas DC-10(back), Boeing 737 (Front) of Air Tanzania, and air traffic control depicted in this 1984, 40th Anniversary of the ICAO stamp

Pic later

1993 Military Aircrafts

T - Chad

Thailand

Issued in October 9th, 2004 for International Letter writing week.  Hope I will get the remaining 1 to complete this series.

                                                   

Thailand Post issued 4 stamps and a Miniature sheet on 2010, May 1st to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Thai Airways. Embossed and UV coating on Airplanes.

DC 6, DC 10, Boeing 747-400 and Airbus A340-600

Issued in 2012 to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of RTAF

Turkey

Revenue stamp

1949 Air Mail Stamps

Issued in 1951 - Overprint for Industrial Congress Ankara on 1949 airmail stamps

Tuvalu

Specimen

Uganda

U.K

British Handley Page Transport Bi-Plane At Bolling Field History

On 9th April 1969, the first British-built Concorde 002 made its maiden flight from Filton Airport to RAF Fairford Airbase.

Ukraine

The first World War plane Sikorsky Ilya Muromets was commemorated by the Ukraine Post on 17th June 2014.

The Antonov AH-178 is a short-range medium-airlift military transport aircraft designed by the Ukrainian Antonov company. The first flight was on 7 May 2015. 

AH-178 is a high-wing transport aircraft with a moderately swept wing, winglets, and a T-tail. The airframe is made of aluminum alloys and composite materials. The power plant consists of two Progress D-436-148FM turbofan engines, mounted on pylons under the wings and an auxiliary power unit. It can shift 18 tonnes over 1,000 km, or 10 tonnes over 4,000 km.

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United Nations NY

Vanuatu

Meter Cancellations Related to the Evolution of Flight

Ferdinand von Zeppelin established his famous dirigible factory at the end of the 19th century. The 128m-long LZ1 airship rose from its mooring on July 2, 1900. Other aviation companies, including Maybach, also arose in Friedrichshafen to help service the industry, which received a major impetus from the First World War. Following the Treaty of Versailles, the Kingdom of Württemberg was dissolved but the deposed royal family continued in their possession of their castle in Friedrichshafen, despite a workers' revolution there in November 1918.

Ferdinand Zeppelin was from this city and he set up his factory here.

Special/Carried/ FFC

First flight cover from Johannesburg to London

25th Anniversary cover (Johannesburg - Zurich)

Space

Ajman

Dahomey

Apollo 8 , 1969

Upper Volta

Apollo 8, 1969

Yet to organize

Poland - Space - Cosmic history of Earth includes Skylab

The Lockheed Constellation ("Connie") is a propeller-driven, four-engine airliner built by Lockheed Corporation.

The Constellation series was the first pressurized-cabin civil airliner series to go into widespread use. Its pressurized cabin enabled large numbers of commercial passengers to fly well above most bad weather for the first time, thus significantly improving the general safety and ease of air travel.^[1] Three of them served as the presidential aircraft for Dwight D. Eisenhower.

North Pole

On May 9, 1926, Commander Richard Byrd announced that he had been the first to fly over the North Pole in his Fokker tri-motor airplane,   the Josephine Ford. Byrd submitted his navigational records to the U.S. Navy and a committee of the National Geographic Society, who verified his claim.  Floyd Bennett shares the honour with Richard Byrd as a copilot. 

Lincoln Ellsworth's father, James, a wealthy coal man from the United States, spent US$100,000 to fund Roald Amundsen's 1925  attempt to fly from Svalbard to the North Pole. Amundsen, accompanied by Lincoln Ellsworth, pilot Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen,  flight mechanic Karl Feucht and two other team members, set out in two Dornier Wal flying boats, the N24 and N25,  in an attempted to reach the North Pole on May 21. When one airplane lost power, both made forced landings and, as a result, became separated. It took 3 days for the crews to regroup and 7 take-off attempts before they were able to return N25 to the air 28 days later.  

Ellsworth accompanied Amundsen on his second effort to fly over the Pole in the airship Norge, designed and piloted by the Italian engineer Umberto Nobile, in a flight from Svalbard to Alaska. On May 12, the Geographic North Pole was sighted.

Ellsworth made four expeditions to Antarctica between 1933 and 1939 using as his aircraft transporter and base, a former Norwegian herring boat that he named Wyatt Earp after his hero.[3]

On November 23, 1935, Ellsworth discovered the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica when he made a trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf. He gave the descriptive name Sentinel Range, which was later named for the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains. During the flight, his aircraft ran out of fuel, forcing a landing near the Little America camp established by Richard Byrd. Because of a faulty radio, he and his pilot, Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, were unable to notify authorities about the landing. The two men were declared missing, and the British research ship Discovery steamed out from Melbourne, Australia[4] to search for them. The two men were discovered on January 16, 1936, after almost two months alone at Little America.[5] They returned to New York City on April 6, and their support ship, MS Wyatt Earp, arrived separately two weeks later.[6]

Ellsworth Land, Mount Ellsworth, and Lake Ellsworth, all in Antarctica, are all named for Lincoln Ellsworth.