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Thursday, December 24th, 2009New Italian zeppelin mail catalogue out
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009Fiorenzo 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.
Zeppelin LZ-127 and Zeppelin NT-07 first flight anniversary
Friday, September 18th, 2009This 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.
100 years – Happy Birthday!
Saturday, September 5th, 2009She 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!
