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Graue and Klein with zeppelin and catapult double-win at SESCAL 2011

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:48:48 +0000

Jim Graue and Allen Klein scored a double-win at the SASCAL 2011 exhibition held in Los Angeles, CA on October 14 – 16, 2011: Jim Graue won the Grand Award in the multiple-frame class with his exhibit German North Atlantic Catapult Airmail 1927 – 1935 while Allen Klein won the Single Frame Grand Award with his exhibit Flown Mail on USS Shenandoah.

Congratulation to both – well done!

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Hall of Fame Award for Jim Graue and Ben Ramkissoon

admin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:16:13 +0000

Dedicated aerophilatelists Jim Graue and Ben Ramkissoon have recently received the Hall of Fame Award for their long-standing contributions to aerophilately.

Ben Ramkissoon is rocket mail and Trinidad and Tobago expert, and Jim Graue is famous for his DLH Deutsche Lufthansa studies, his commercial zeppelin mail collection, his research on catapult flights North- and South Atlantic, the study of the 1934 Germany airmail issue and for his wide knowledge on German philately.

Congratulations from the ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP – they deserve the Hall of Fame Award!

Longhi received AAMS George D. Kingdom Award for Italian zeppelin book

admin — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:44:09 +0000

Fioreno Longhi received the AAMS George D. Kingdom Literature Award for his Italian zeppelin mail book CATALOGO STORICO DESCRITTIVO DEGLI AEROGRAMMI ZEPPELIN DI ITALIA – COLONIE ITALIANE – SAN MARINO – VATICANO – 1929 – 1939.

Congratulations!

For more information on the book: http://www.ezep.de/books/italianzep.html

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75 years airport Flughafen Frankfurt Rhein Main

admin — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:39:08 +0000

75 years ago, on 8 July 1936, Frankfurt Rhein Main airport was officially opened. A Junkers Ju 52 Auntie Ju / Tante Ju aiplane was the first aircraft to land at Frankfurt Rhein Main airport. Later on that day, airship LZ-129 HINDENBURG arrived at Frankfurt Rhein Main airport to make two round trips. Also airship LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin was expected to arrive at Frankfurt but could not land at the new airport and returned back to Friedrichshafen.

Transmitted mail from Belgium flown on LZ-129 HINDENBURG on the opening of the Frankfurt Rhein Main airport.

And do not forget, today is also the birthday of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, he was born on 8 July 1838…..

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First official airmail 1911, Allahabad – Naini, India

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:57:03 +0000

On the day 100 years ago, on 18 February 1911, a mail bag with approximately 6.000 covers was flown by French pilot Henri Pequet from Allahabad to Naini, India. This small hop of only five miles made history: It was the first official airmail.

The mail was postmarked with a special cancel showing an airplane flying over mountains, the inscript of the marking reads “First Aerial Post, 1911, U. P. Exhibition Allahabad.” (Cover courtesy of Pradip Jain, India).

This information was brought to you by the ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP.

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