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Zeppelin NT D-LZZF online tracking

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

The zeppelin NT D-LZZF appears on Swiss air traffic radar http://radar.zhaw.ch/radar.html

If you do not see the zeppelin on your current radar screen, the airship is out of radar contact (probaly on the ground). The attached screen shot from today shows the zeppelin D-LZZF flying south of Meersburg into the direction of Friedrichshafen, cruising along the northern lake shore of Lake Constance.

The other aircrafts are:

LX1105 (in the top right corner): This is the Munich-Zurich flight of Swiss Airlines approaching into Zurich. Flight altitude was apprx. 5.000 meters

AF582 at the bottom, south of Romanshorn: This is Air France flying Paris-Amman at 11.000 meters

LH4051 in the left section south of Radolfzell is Lufthansa fying from Florence to Frankfurt at 9.000 meters.

Nice tool to track the zeppelin without looking out of the window…..

onlinetracking

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BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX – online application for exhibitors

Saturday, September 26th, 2009

BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX has released the revised prospectus for exhibitors with the “Special Regulations for BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX”, the document Beijing-2009-Aeropex-regulations-REVISED.pdf can be viewed and downloaded here .

The most important change of the revised version of the “Special Regulations for BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX” is that now ALL airmail collectors from all over the world are invited and eligible for submitting an application for BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX. A membership in a club or society affiliated with FISA is no longer required.

If your aerophilatelic exhibit has received a Vermeil medal on a national level exhibition and if you are member of an airmail society, then you are eligible to submit an application for exhibiting at BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX.

If you want to exhibit at BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX, you have to submit an application form. You can do this online – this link http://www.ezep.de/aeropex2009/apply.html brings you to the exhibitors page where you can submit your application online! To apply will not take longer then 60 seconds.

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8 million$ donation for philately

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

slightly off-topic for this zeppelin blog, but I thought it is worth to mention: A very generous way to support philately. The full story is in this link.

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/StampGallery/index.html

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AEROPEX 2009 at Beijing: Prospectus available

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

The prospectus for exhibitors with the “Special Regulations for BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX” was issued, the document can be downloaded here: http://www.ezep.de/aeropex2009/beijing_2009_aeropex-1.pdf

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Zeppelin LZ-127 and Zeppelin NT-07 first flight anniversary

Friday, September 18th, 2009

This day in 1928, airship LZ-127 “Graf Zeppelin” made the first flight.

This day in 1997, airship Zeppelin NT-07 “Friedrichshafen” made the first flight.

Both happened at the city of Friedrichshafen.

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ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL press recognition

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

The special issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL about the zeppelin mail forgeries (http://www.ezep.de/zpj/2009ibra.html) gets national and international press recognition:

The Airpost Journal of the American Airmail Society featured the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL special issue and the recently discovered zeppelin mail forgeries in their September 2009 issue: Bob Wilcsek´s “Zeppelin Letters” column It was only a matter of time is dealing with the special ZPJ issue and the forgeries. The significance of this topic is underlined by Bob´s seven-page column and by the illustrated forgery on the title page of the Airpost Journal.

Thank you Bob Wilcsek, and also special thanks to Wayne Youngblood (editor of the Airpost Journal) and to the American Airmail Society for joining us in the fight against forgeries!


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Jim Graue back on the board & new Editor-in-Chief

Monday, September 14th, 2009

News from the BALPEX 2009 show:

Congratulations to Jim Graue for winning the AAMS Grand Award and Show Reserve Grand Award at BALPEX 2009 with his exhibit German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail 1929-1935.

Jim Graue was also selected to complete the term of Jeff Shapiro who stepped down from the Board of Directors of the American Airmail Society

And finally, Jim Graue was elected Editor-in-Chief of the American Air Mail Catalogues.

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ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP meeting at Koehler auction

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 2 p.m., Heinrich Koehler auctions https://www.heinrich-koehler.de/de/news/ from Wiesbaden, Germany auctions some very nice zeppelin- and airmail covers.

The ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP http://www.ezep.de/index.html is meeting after the Heinrich Koehler zeppelin mail auction at Wiesbaden. The meeting is open to the public, registration is not required.

Link of the zeppelin mail auction: https://www.heinrich-koehler.de/de/auction/337/g_1_10/

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AEROPEX 2009 at Beijing, China confirmed

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

Now it is official: The show dates for the AEROPEX 2009 airmail exhibition at Beijing, China are November 12 – 16, 2009. Further details soon.

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100 years – Happy Birthday!

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

She remembers the sound of the zeppelin engines and at school, they had to raise funds for the Zeppelin-Eckener-Spende (Zeppelin-Eckener-fund). In 1933 she spent the summer at Lake Constance and visited the airship hanger and airship LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin where the photo was taken.
This photo was also illustrated on page 5 of the Fall08 issue of the Zeppelin Post Journal http://www.ezep.de/zpj/fa08.html

Today Helly Wachter is celebrating her 100th birthday – Happy Birthday!

100jahre

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