The evolution of air transport service networks, interconnecting with one another to cover the world.The contributions of the Zeppelins and flying boats, aviation dinosaurs which made transoceanic airmail a reality before land-based airplanes had that capability.The major efforts made to advance airmail delivery by hours or even minutes.The development of the early routes, continuously being extended to reach new regions, nations, and continents.The world for the airmail collector is as wide and deep as one wishes to make it. Special airmail markings applied to the airmail, the transit times reflected in dispatch and arrival postmarks, and the airmail postage rates all indicate the means of flight and the route taken. It was not always the standard that it is today, but a premium service requiring the payment of special postage rates, often reflected in the airmail stamps that have been issued world-wide since early in the game. The path the limited flights of the pioneers, with special demonstration flights sanctioned to carry souvenir “airmail,” whose successes inspired the development of aircraft in all forms, becoming increasingly fast, range-capable, and reliable, thereby making possible the air carriers, from regional to national, international, intercontinental, and transoceanic and at every step, from the hesitant first to the confident final, there was – airmail!Īirmail, the actual flown documents, is the foundation of aerophilately. Consider the development of aviation itself and one can find it reflected in the mail that was flown: Freed from the inherent constraints of all modes of surface travel, communications transported by air- airmail – provided a quantum leap in the advance of mail delivery, and with it the pace of all facets of human life.Īirmail is the philatelic and postal historical reflection of the development of aviation and its effect on world communications. With flight came the instant realization that with it went communications. One could make a winning case for aviation as the greatest achievement of the 20th century. The AirmailCollectingGuide provided in these pages is also available downloadable.
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