Let's Go Flying

Sir George Cayley, 6th Baronet (1773-1857) was a prolific English engineer and is one of the most important people in the history of aeronautics. Many consider him to be the first true scientific aerial investigator and the first person to understand the underlying principles and forces of flight. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Cayley and depicting one of his flying inventions, designed and engraved by French artist Claude Jumelet (1946- ), and issued by Monaco on April 30, 1973 to commemorate the bicentenary of the aeronautical engineer's birth, Scott No. 878, plus images of a painted portrait of George Caley, and a photograph of replica of Cayley's glider being flown by Derek Piggott in 1973.

- nethryk

Australia Post FDC - 50th Anniversary of Sir Francis Chichester's First Cross Tasman Flight - 1981

with added Australia 1978 SG658 Early Australian Aviators - Harry Hawker 18c. Harry George Hawker (1889-1921), aviator, was born on 22 January 1889 at South Brighton, Melbourne.

Guadalcanal - Cactus Remembered.

Although the stunning Midway victory levelled the odds in the Pacific, it was the epic battle for Guadalcanal that tilted the scale irrevocably in favour of the Americans. Cactus Air Force refers to the ensemble of Allied air power assigned to the island of Guadalcanal from August 1942 until December 1942 during the early stages of the Guadalcanal Campaign, particularly those operating from Henderson Field

French Polynesia (PF) issued this 13-franc stamp on completion of the Papeete Airport, which many of us only know from:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120828/ ... Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

French Polynesia
Completion of the airport
Catalog codes:
Yvert et Tellier PF PA5
Michel PF 19
Issued on: 1960-11-19
Perforation: comb 13
Printing: Recess
Colors: Multicolor
Face value: 13 F - CFP franc

cds Papeete 19641119

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Here are images of the four stamps in a set commemorating the inauguration of Ghana Airways, designed by British stamp designer Michael Goaman (1921-2009) (except as noted), printed by photogravure, and issued by Ghana on July 15, 1958, Scott Nos. 32-35, plus some relevant photos.

- nethryk

Palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis) and globe marked with a star indicating the location of Ghana.


Bristol Type 175 Britannia airliner, designed by R. Milton.


Boeing 377 Stratocruiser and Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross (Thalassarche chlororhynchos).


Palm-nut vulture and what appears to be a Vickers VC10 jetliner. Note: Ghana Airways ordered three VC10s in January 1961, and ultimately took delivery of two of them.

Here is an image of an airmail stamp depicting a seaplane alighting (probably in the port of Douala), designed by French illustrator Jules Douy, printed by photogravure, and issued for use in Cameroun by the Vichy Government in France in 1941, but not sold in Cameroun until 1946, Scott No. C22, plus a photograph of a Sikorsky S-43 "Baby Clipper," a twin engine amphibious aircraft manufactured during the 1930s by the American firm Sikorsky Aircraft, which strongly resembles the aircraft depicted on this stamp.

- nethryk

HERE:

Sorry for the yelling. Accidentally pressed the caps lock button!

I'm a city kid, but I don't think that the artist who designed the 20-zloty stamp ever saw a crop-sprayer.

I'll let someone who knows forestry explain why they're spraying a mature forest.

https://goscf.com/t/36613&whichpage=26#398229 ... to see the entire.




Poland
Mi6 Transport Helicopter
Catalog codes:
Stamp Number PL C54
Michel PL 2438
Polish Stamps Catalog PL 2291
Yvert et Tellier PL PA56
Issued on: 1976-03-27
Perforation: comb 11½ x 11¾
Size: 32 x 51 mm
Colors: Dark brown
Face value: 10 z#322; - Polish z#322;oty
Print run: 160,000,000
J.Brodowski
E.Tirdiszek 'SC'

Poland
PZL-106 Kruk crop spraying plane
Catalog codes:
Stamp Number PL C55
Michel PL 2484
Polish Stamps Catalog PL 2337I
Yvert et Tellier PL PA57
Issued on: 1977-02-15
Perforation: comb 11½ x 11¾
Printing: Recess
Size: 31 x 51 mm
Colors: Black olive
Face value: 20 z#322; - Polish z#322;oty
Print run: 94,460,000

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Yes ikeyPikey, definitely a poor representation. I would say it is dropping a pellet fertiliser rather than spraying but even so, it doesn't drop out of the aircraft like that. Have this stamp in my collection, in fact more than one!

Nethryk, the aircraft depicted on the Cameroun stamp is a Gruman Goose.

Well-spotted, teals1, but that's begs yet another question: who drops fertilizer on a mature forest?

Similarly, who would re-seed a mature forest from the air? (Re-forestration is by seedlings, not seeds.)

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Agreed ikeyPikey, fertiliser drops in the forest is unlikely. Another possibility is poison pellets to control rodents. I know NZ did this many years ago although that is out of favour now. Whatever it was in the designers mind it doesn't seem like a good representation. The aircraft is PZL-106A Kruk according to my aircraft stamp catalogue.

teals1 - Your source for this identification is obviously faulty, as even a cursory visual comparison will demonstrate that the aircraft depicted on the Cameroun stamp I posted above bears little resemblance to the one featured in the photo you provided in your post, apart from the fact that they are both twin engine seaplanes.

Here are images of the two semi-postal (charity) stamps in a set issued by Poland on August 23, 1952 for Aviation Day, Scott Nos. B85 & B86.

- nethryk

Aviator watching a glider, designed by Edward Konecki, and engraved by Boguslaw Brandt.


Pilot entering an airplane, designed by Czeslaw Slania, and engraved by Marian Romuald Polak.

You are absolutely correct there nethryk. I was certainly too quick off the mark and didn't check things as I should have. Apologies.