| 1911 y. |
Airmail - kind of postal service in which the postal items are transported by air using the aircraft.Today airmail most modern and used form of air mail.Delivery of letters in the air took place long before the appearance as a regular airmail service available to the public.
Thus, the appearance in 1903, airplanes immediately aroused the interest on their attraction to the carriage of mail.The first official flight took place on February 18, 1911 in India from Allahabad to Naini Naini, during which Henri Piquet moved 6.5 thousand letters and 250 special cards at a distance of 13 km.
Letters were paid a special stamp with the inscription: «First aerial post. U. P. Exhibition. Allahabad. 1911 "The first air mail.United National Exhibition.Allahabad.1911.Special stamp Allahabad airmail put red paint, a small part of the official nature of the correspondence was stamped in black.
Stamp was made by order of the Government of India Post Office in the city Aligare and is unique: the clichés were destroyed immediately after the flight.At the stamp depicts the silhouette of a flying a biplane over the mountains of Asia.
Draft stamp was drawn by the initiator of the flight Walter Wyndham, the owner of the automobile company, founded in 1908 Aviation Club.Amount received from the transportation of air mail was transferred to the hotel to Oxford and Cambridge "on the content of students. |
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