The BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX awards are online at http://www.ezep.de/aeropex2009/aeropex2009.html
Congratulations to all exhibitors!

The BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX awards are online at http://www.ezep.de/aeropex2009/aeropex2009.html
Congratulations to all exhibitors!

Today (October 26) in 1933, LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin departs Akron for Chicago’s “A Century of Progress” World’s Fair and returns after a brief landing at Chicago.


This is a reminder that application for the international airmail show BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX ends on Saturday, October 10, 2009. This is today or tomorrow, where ever you are at the moment.
If you want to apply for exhibiting at BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX, this is your last chance to apply, so please do it now and online: This is the link http://www.ezep.de/aeropex2009/apply.html which brings you to the online application and gets you also latest information about the show.
Fiorenzo Longhi published an new zeppelin mail catalogue: Zeppelin mail from Italy, Italian Colonies, San Marino and Vatican City from the period 1929 – 1939. This covers the flights of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin, LZ-129 Hindenburg and LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin II. 972 covers are listed and 730 of them are illustrated. Included is also a price list for all of this material. The book will be presented on October 21, 2009 at ITALIA2009, the international stamp show at Rome, Italy.
Title of the book: CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA – COLONIE ITALIANE – SAN MARINO – VATICANO – 1929 – 1939
Source: http://www.ezep.de/books/books.html

Ordering information will follow in the next days.
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
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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.
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.
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
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.
Now it is official: The show dates for the AEROPEX 2009 airmail exhibition at Beijing, China are November 12 – 16, 2009. Further details soon.
Check out Fox 5 morning news: Cheryl Ganz is on TV!
Cheryl is chief curator of philately at the National Postal Museum Washington DC and well known zeppelin mail collector. http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/mornings/holly_live/090309_holly_morris_national_postal_museum
Source at www.eZEPtalk.de: http://www.ezeptalk.de/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=168