Let's Go Flying

teals:

Thanks for the added effort. I agree, the semi-scale drawing is the best explanation. Would really like to see your DC-3 exhibit when it's finished. The DC-3 is one of the greatest performing aircraft of its time period. There are still some on the U.S. aircraft registry as well.

Don

Here are images of a Swedish aviation history souvenir sheet and the five stamps included in it, designed by Swedish artist Ingalill Axelsson, engraved by Zlatko Jakus, and issued by Sweden on October 13, 1984, Scott Nos. 1516 and 1516a.-e., Facit Nos. 1317-21, along with some relevant photos.

- nethryk



Thulin D Two-seater, 1915.


Saab 90 Scandia, 1946.


Friherre Carl Gustav Alexander Cederström (1867-1918), a pioneering Swedish aviator, known as "the flying Baron," and a Blériot, 1910.


Albin Ahrenberg (1889-1968), Swedish airline captain, in a Junkers "Tomten" F13, 1927.


Carl Richard Nyberg (1858-1939), Swedish aviation pioneer, in his steam engine driven airplane "Flugan" (The Fly), c. 1900.

nethryk;

Very nicely executed stamps! The designer and engraver show close attention to detail. The Swedes know how to print stamps!

Don

DonSellos - Agreed. Also, Sweden is one of only a handful of countries still regularly issuing intaglio engraved stamps.

Rescue helicopter, definitive stamp designed by Beat Knoblauch and Paul Beer, engraved by Manfred Spiegel, and issued by Germany on August 14, 1975, Scott No. 1173, Michel No. 849.

- nethryk

The Nieuport 28 (N.28C-1) was a World War I French biplane fighter aircraft designed by Gustave Delage and built by Nieuport. After the war, Nieuport 28s were used for many military and civilian purposes. Here is an image of a stamp depicting a Nieuport 28 and a flight map of Buenos Aires Province, designed by Argentine artist Eduardo Miliavaca, printed by lithography, and issued by Argentina on September 13, 1969 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first Argentine airmail service from El Palomar to Mar del Plata, flown by Captain Pedro Leandro Zanni (1891-1942), February 23-24, 1919, plus photographs of Captain Zanni and of a Nieuport 28.

- nethryk

Red Cross rescue helicopter, designed by Swiss artist Richard Gerbig, printed by photogravure (Courvoisier, S.A.), and issued by Switzerland on September 21, 1972, Scott No. 553.

- nethryk

Great Swiss stamp, nice centering and cancel! I also though the real photos of the Capt. Zanni and the Nieuport were very interesting as well.

Don

Allen:

I don't know enough about the frequency or causes of color variations to comment authoritatively, but the ones you show have good contrast. I usually mount stamps that show difference like these side by side in my album, or if there are enough examples, on a special page. They add welcome variety to the presentation of a stamp series, in my opinion.

Don

Thanks for the comments Don. Yes, I also have included them in the album side-by-side to highlight variation. A couple more US stamps added to my collection yesterday. Nice to have both variations of the 15c stamp.

DonSellos - Thanks! Here is another Switzerland stamp which you might also enjoy.

The Häfeli DH-3 was an 1910s Swiss two-seat reconnaissance biplane aircraft, built by the Federal Construction Works at Thun, Switzerland. Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting a Häfeli DH-3 in flight, designed by Swiss artist Otto Baumberger (1889-1961), printed by photogravure (Courvoisier, S.A.), and issued by Switzerland on September 1, 1944 as one of a set of three stamps commemorating the 25th anniversary of the country's first regular air route, Scott No. C37, plus a photograph of a Häfeli DH-3.

- nethryk

Thanks, Nethryk. The Swiss stamp is a nice one too. Great detail, which makes for a realistic looking airplane, and a nice cancel too.

Don

Happy Birthday to Jorge Newbery (1875-1914), an Argentine aviator and engineer who in 1914 broke the world altitude record reaching 6,225m in a Morane-Saulnier monoplane; later that year he was killed in a plane crash. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Newbery in the cockpit of his plane, c. 1912–1914, printed by photogravure, and issued by Argentina on February 23, 1964 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Jorge Newbery's death, Scott No. 759, plus an image of the photo based upon which this stamp was designed.

- nethryk

I've enjoyed perusing this thread. My collections focus on US air post and aviation themed regulars. The US Scott #649-650 were posted earlier in the thread; here they are, with some US air mails, on an early Lindbergh cover:



And for something new:





An image of US #3783 was previously posted. Here are a couple of covers with earlier FDC cancellations:





Anything to make something unique!

-Basil

blcjr - Nice covers! Please post more.

Here are images of the three stamps in a set depicting French-built biplanes of the 1920s and 1930s, designed by Pierre Gandon, and issued by Niger on March 14, 1968 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the first aimail link between France and Niger, Scott Nos. C83-C85.

- nethryk

Breguet 27 in flight over a lake, engraved by Pierre Gandon.


Potez 25 TOE on the ground, engraved by Jean Pheulpin.


Potez 25 TOE in flight, engraved by Claude Haley.