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Post by outremer01 on Aug 17, 2019 6:54:38 GMT
I have had an interest in aviation through my work in gas-turbine engine support with, mainly, military customers around the world. I haven't always been so interested in stamps, so I have probably missed many opportunities to add interesting stamps and/or covers to my collection. Since I retired, I have been frequenting stamp fairs in my area (Bristol, U.K.), mainly to add to my Gulf States, Lebanon/Syria collections. Here are a few covers I have acquired during my stamp fair visits. First - to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the first successful pure jet landing on a carrier, achieved by Flt Cmdr Eric "Winkle" Brown on 3rd December 1945. Brown went on to take the world record for the most carrier deck take-offs and landings (launches and recoveries, for you Navy types).
The aircraft used was a Vampire prototype; the successful demonstration of carrier operations led to the development of the Sea Vampire.
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Post by outremer01 on Aug 17, 2019 7:10:17 GMT
This cover shows the Jaguar, a Franco-British project developed in the 1960's. As the cover states, it was flown in a Jaguar development aircraft E02, this being the second two-seat trainer (E = école or school in French) prototype.
The cover shows a single seat aircraft, possibly S06, this being the first aircraft produced to RAF specifications.
Although out of service in most countries that acquired it, the Jaguar is still flying in India.
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Post by stamphinger on Aug 20, 2019 13:05:48 GMT
Well, I found my other Stinemetts cover. While similar in style, it is different in that the airport image is not a paste-on, but a printed image on the envelope. Otherwise it is much like the other posted above thestampforum.boards.net/post/80437/thread with the same franking, airmail etiquette, diagonal paste-on corners, and address label. They are also both posted on the same day, November 11, 1930, which was then still Armistice Day. I have not been able to conclusively identify the aircraft pictured. It looks like a variant of a de Havilland DH-60 Moth, but I could not find a model with enclosed cabins. The aircraft registration on the side of the fuselage begins with a M which indicates it was registered and operated on the Isle of Man. Eaker Airport is at Durant, Oklahoma, about 100 miles southeast of Norman where I live and is still in operation. It is known as the base for the pilot training program conducted by the state college in Durant. Don StampHinger upload images
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 20, 2019 13:11:33 GMT
While lacking some details, the aircraft in this colorful patriotic cachet were intended to be Curtiss P-40 Warhawks. They, however, more closely resemble the Curtiss XP-37, a forerunner of the P-40 that did not go into production. The P-40 is one of the ubiquitous aircraft of the WW II period. It served in all theaters of WW II, but is, perhaps, best know for its service in Gen. Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group, aka, The Flying Tigers. By the time production ceased in November 1944, 15,000 P-40 had been built and delivered. As an aside,The Advertisers Press of Des Moines, Iowa, printed and sold this patriotic cover under the name "Victory enVelopes."
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Sept 21, 2019 18:18:04 GMT
I was replacing the cover from my previous post in my Aircraft on Covers collection today and while rummaging around rediscovered some other Curtiss P-40 Warhawk covers. It was, and is, a popular airplane to decorate a cover. Here are my others:
First is a pair of patriotics from the WW II period:
This is a more contemporary philatelic cover featuring a P-40
An artist's impression of P-40s on the ground and under attack during the Pearl Harbor raid, on a Doc's Local Post cover. A large cover that showed up in my mail box from an organization seeking funds for restoration projects. A great in-flight shot of a Curtiss P-40
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Post by stanley64 on Oct 9, 2019 6:41:00 GMT
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 15, 2019 13:20:36 GMT
The P-26 "Peashooter" was the first and last monoplane fighter aircraft produced by Boeing in 1934 for the U.S. Army Air Corps. One hundred eleven P-26's were produced. They never saw combat with the USAAC, but a squadron of P-26s was flown by the Philippine Air Force at the beginning of WW II. The P-26s were outdated and no match for the Japanese Zero.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 22, 2019 18:20:41 GMT
A philatelic event cover commemorating the 8th All American Air Maneuvers in Miami, Florida, December 1935. I purchased this cover several years ago for the aircraft depicted in the cachet, the bullseye biplane cancel, and the red airplane cinderella advance label stuck on bottom center of the cover. Little did I know at the time that each of this cover's collecting points would coordinate with later acquisitions. First, is the aircraft in the cachet, Boeing P-26s which is also the subject of the post immediately above, second the aircraft on cover at this post in this thread, thestampforum.boards.net/post/78442/thread also advertises the Florida airshow, and my page of biplane cancels here thestampforum.boards.net/post/75862/thread is the same as the cancel on this cover. Don StampHinger
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Post by mikeclevenger on Oct 25, 2019 11:39:45 GMT
Found this in my Marine Corps collection and thought it was interesting, since it shows Bi-Planes, but it is from WWII.
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Post by mikeclevenger on Oct 25, 2019 11:58:29 GMT
Here are three covers from the Space Shuttle Trainer. It is a Gulfstream aircraft, which is where I work.
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Post by stamphinger on Oct 25, 2019 13:35:13 GMT
Hi mikeclevenger:
Yes, I agree, an interesting cover. Great postmark too, not many people aware of the British and U.S. occupation of Iceland in the early years of WW II, especially since the U.S. was still neutral then. The cachet, I believe, is by Jacques Minkus. What I also find interesting about it is that it is a patriotic cover available well before the U.S. entry into WW II. It must have been one of the first available. The aircraft depicted are a reasonable likeness of Grumman F2F/F3F's. They were in service with the U.S. Navy from 1935 to 1939.
Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 4, 2019 21:42:32 GMT
The cover below is a recent acquisition for my Aircraft on Covers collection. The cachet is a real photo of a Vought OS2U Kingfisher being launched from a ship's catapult. The Kingfisher was a two seat aircraft (pilot in front and observer/gunner in the rear) armed with one .30 caliber gun firing to the front and a swiveling .30 machine gun manned by the observer in the rear seat. Kingfishers were placed on cruisers and battleships to give the ships aerial surveillance of their own. The horizon from a ship's lookout post might be 20 + miles, but a Kingfisher flying at altitude in any direction could see well beyond the ship's view of the horizon. Kingfishers were also useful for rescuing airmen downed at sea.
The airplanes were launched from a catapult on the ship and they were recovered using a crane, also on the ship. Below are two photos from the Internet showing a Kingfisher sitting on a catapult and one being hoisted out of the sea after returning to the ship.
At first, I thought this cover was a leftover cachet used for personal correspondence, but eventually realized that it was a commemorative event cover. The September 2, 1945 postmark commemorated Japan's signing of unconditional surrender aboard USS Missouri ending WW II in the Pacific Theater. The stamp is Sc. 931, the second is a set of four stamps commemorating the life of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Don StampHinger
The cover: A Kingfisher sitting on a ship's catapult: A Kingfisher being recovered at sea:
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 17, 2019 20:42:37 GMT
The eBay seller who offered this cover identified the airplane as a Supermarine Spitfire. However, after some examination of of Spitfire images, I have decided this image more closely resembles an equally iconic British aircraft of the Battle for Britain, the Hawker Hurricane. The Hurricane did not quite match the Spitfire in performance, but it did more than its share in holding the line against the German Luftwaffe in the early years of WW II. Hurricanes had up to eight .303 caliber machine guns in the wings, had a range of 450 plus miles, and a top speed of 342 mph. More than 14,000 were built. This cover depicting a Hurricane in camouflage paint is a little unusual in that the image is a decal applied to the envelope rather than printed on it, and with hand lettering underneath. I speculate the cover was prepared by the addressee who did a series of covers with different WW II aircraft depicted. I would have bid on others,, but they showed flaking of the decals. This was the only one that did not have a damaged decal. The cover is also a first-day cover for Sc 905, the 3c Win the War stamp which was heavily used during the war years and afterwards as well. Don StampHinger
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Post by stamphinger on Nov 29, 2019 23:05:32 GMT
Central Airlines used this first-flight cover and enclosed letter to notify customers of a new direct flight from Fort Smith, Arkansas to St. Louis, Missouri. I acquired the cover for its excellent rendering of a Douglas DC-3 aircraft with Central Airlines livery. While put into airline service in the late 1930s, DC-3s were still widely used by the smaller regional airlines in the mid-1950s. I rode on one from Kansas City, MO to Omaha, NE, in 1956 on my first-leave from the Marine Corps.
Don StampHinger The letter:
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Post by kasvik on Dec 3, 2019 1:19:15 GMT
Central Airlines used this first-flight cover and enclosed letter to notify customers of a new direct flight from Fort Smith, Arkansas to St. Louis, Missouri. I acquired the cover for its excellent rendering of a Douglas DC-3 aircraft with Central Airlines livery. While put into airline service in the late 1930s, DC-3s were still widely used by the smaller regional airlines in the mid-1950s. I rode on one from Kansas City, MO to Omaha, NE, in 1956 on my first-leave from the Marine Corps.
Don StampHinger Aw. Thanks for the memories. Growing up in Washington County Arkansas, this was the airline serving near-by Fayetteville. My first flight took off from there in 1968, when they were operating Convair CV-600s, re-painted for Frontier after the merger. No more DC-3s by then. But still no security, either. We simply filed out of the one-room airport as a clerk checked the tickets again. The Convair was a crude looking thing, even then, but it didn't leak in rain like a DC-3. And it got my family over the hill that loomed over the south end of the airport, and to Saint Louis, where we connected to LaGuardia.
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Post by tomiseksj on Feb 10, 2020 22:13:37 GMT
This cover was acquired with a purchase of items for my 1935 China Clipper collection. It commemorates the inaugural flight of United Air Lines' 15-1/4 hour, 3-stop service from San Francisco, California to New York, New York on May 5, 1937. The aircraft featured on the cover is United's Mainliner, a Douglas DC-3 with a cruising range of more than 1,500 miles. More information on this aircraft may be viewed here.
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Post by outremer01 on Mar 29, 2020 13:21:55 GMT
A cover dated 15th August 1981 commemorating the 60th anniversary of No. 4 Flying Training School (16th Aug 1981). Pilots are still being trained at R.A.F. Valley, and still on Hawks, albeit a later version. A Royal Saudi Air Force Hawk of the national display team: A rather grainy scan of a Hawk taxiing: Another poor image, showing a Hawk similar to the one above being manoeuvred by ground crew, yes - it's a scale model:
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Post by stamphinger on Apr 3, 2020 12:19:52 GMT
Here is one of my favorite aircraft covers. It is strictly philatelic, but it is a dramatic flying scene of an aircraft rarely seen on stamps or covers. The airplane is a Naval Aircraft Factory PH-3. A number of these flying boats were assigned to the Coast Guard and this one has Coast Guard arkings. These aircraft were used for anti-submarine patrol early in WW II. The image was apparently cut from an aviation magazine and pasted on a standard #6 envelope. The postmark ties the 1943 Christmas seal to the cover, and while not bold enough to be clearly legible against the dark background appears to be a December 1943 cancel. The addressee, John F. Vickery has a entry in the 1938 Blue Book of Philately identifying him as a stamp dealer.
Don StampHinger
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Post by thegubman on Apr 5, 2020 6:58:27 GMT
I have a few aircraft/RAF covers all looking for a new home mainly from the UK. First up 1972 cover featuring a supermarine sea otter plane. Graham
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Post by jamesw on Apr 5, 2020 18:22:37 GMT
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Post by renden on Apr 5, 2020 18:34:17 GMT
Nice Via Air-Mail cover from Sept-Iles, Quebec, dated Dec 14, 1933 - First flight Iles-Natashquan (Quebec) - Scott X # 195 and 1X C4 stamps Bought by my late dad Sept. 15, 1981 from Vance Auctions
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Post by thegubman on Apr 6, 2020 10:11:20 GMT
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Post by thegubman on Apr 6, 2020 10:15:47 GMT
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Post by thegubman on Apr 7, 2020 6:36:01 GMT
GB 1969 cover featuring a DH-9 50th anniversary of first scheduled air mail service Germany to UK, British forces postal service postmark. Graham
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Post by thegubman on Apr 7, 2020 6:38:44 GMT
GB maiden flight New York London Boeing 747 jumbo jet. Graham
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Post by thegubman on Apr 7, 2020 6:43:58 GMT
Germany 1942 Berlin postmark Luftfelpost sent to Feldpost 46430. Graham
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Post by thegubman on Apr 7, 2020 6:47:22 GMT
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Post by stamphinger on Feb 28, 2021 18:22:29 GMT
Almost a year since any posts to this thread so I'll try to prime the pump with these two items recently acquired.
The first is a real photo post card from John A. Coppa, a WW II aviation cadet stationed at San Antonio, Texas, for flight training. The card has a photo of the Curtiss P-40. The P-40 was one of the real workhorses of WW II. More than 15,000 of them were built and they served in every theater of the war. It was the P-40 that became the iconic airplane of Gen. Claire Chennault's American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers) in China. Not a fast airplane by WW II standards, top speed 378 mph, nor exceptionally maneuverable, but rugged and able to fly from most any terrain. I wonder if the card's sender successfully completed flight training, and, if so, did he survive the war?
The second is a commercial cover from British Overseas Airways with a striking photo of a Boeing Model 377 Stratocruiser in flight on the reverse. The Stratocruiser was a WW II design based upon the Boeing B-29 Superfortress with a highly modified fuselage. The military designation was C-97. The design entered production as a long-range civil aircraft for airlines in 1947. The civilian version as seen on this cover would carry, depending upon seating configuration, 55 to 100 passengers comfortably and some variations even had cocktail lounge, The airplane cruised at 300 mph with a range of 4,000 miles. It remained in airline service until 1958.
Interestingly, this cover has a philatelic connection in that it is addressed to the editor of the Jack Knight Air Label Catalog. Jack Knight was a 1920s airmail pilot made famous by a successful night flight during the first transcontinental airmail flight and was credited with saving the fledgling airmail program. There was also A Jack Knight Air Mail Society and a publication called Jack Knight Airmail Log. This cover may have contained information about BOAC airmail first fights.
Don StampHinger
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Post by cursus on Mar 15, 2021 9:47:08 GMT
1960: 50 years since the first flight from Barcelona. Pm of the "Aeropuerto Muntadas", name of Barcelona airport after the civil war.
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Post by cursus on Mar 15, 2021 10:43:12 GMT
Air connections between Barcelona and Germany.
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