Recent additions

I am overwhelmed with the response that my blog has been receiving and the numerous requests to keep posting new material.  My blog was never meant to be a chatty one; rather one that unfolds the history or aviation through philately. At the last count my blog has had visitors from 133 countries.   

I hope to resume posting again soon the story of aviation through philately.  

Here are a few recent additions to my collection.

Concorde first day covers:

Balloon Stamps strip from France

Bleriot maximum card from Monaco

FDCs of Lindberg stamps from France

Stamps of earlier posts

My collection is spread over a large number of albums, sheets, packets, display cards etc and I have been trying to get the material into some order and scan for uploading on future blogs.  I found that I have several stamps of previous posts.  So here are some of the scans.

Souvenir sheets issued  to commemorate 75th Anniversary of the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers.

Antigua

Gabon

Ghana

 

Togo

 

se-tenant pair of stamps  issued by the US

 

Stamp showing Bleriot & his plane issued by Romania in the Aviation history set in 1978

 

Republic of Equatorial Guinea 

 

Otto Lilienthal Stamps

Czechoslovakia - part of a set issued in 1977 to promote PRAGA 78

 

Part of the Romania History of Aviation issue of 1978

 

Part of the Zaire issue to commemorate 75th anniversary of powered flight.

Stamp also shows Leonardo da Vinci and his sketches for flying vessels

 

 

Upper Volta

Zaire's issue to commemorate conquest of Air shows the Wright Flyer and 

Santos-Dumont's bis-14