The new year 2024 begins today. This means many changes for you as an individual or for your company. Some changes lead to significant alterations (read: deteriorations) for you, your company, or you as a self-employed professional. Sometimes these are improvements...
Boeing is busy dismantling the 747 assembly line at the factory in Everett, near Seattle. The last aircraft left the production line in Everett on Tuesday, December 6, 2022, and was delivered as a cargo aircraft on Tuesday, January 31, 2023...
Collecting mail items transported on 'first flights' via KLM or other airlines with a new destination was a favorite pastime for airmail collectors, particularly in the 30s. I collect these airmail items myself as well. But...
2020 is the year of the coronavirus. 2021 is the year of the coronavirus vaccine. We look back with the key moments and actors of the corona crisis in the Netherlands in 2020. I follow a chronological timeline from December 2019 up to and...
The borders of most Schengen countries are reopening as of June 15, 2020. We are allowed to go on holiday again after a long period of 'standstill'. Will we travel to other European countries with coronavirus risks or stay closer to...
In September 1939, Australia became involved in the Second World War when the mother country, Great Britain, declared war on Nazi Germany following the invasion of Poland. During the six years that the war lasted, Australia had no fewer than five different heads of government. On August 11...
The '100 Years of Aviation' issue focuses on [a] the 100th anniversary of Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM), [b] the 100th anniversary of aircraft manufacturer Fokker, [c] the 100th anniversary of Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR). The eleven aircraft depicted on the stamp sheet...
The visual history of the 100-year existence of our national airport Schiphol comes to life in a varied way on the 100 Years Schiphol stamp sheet through photos, maps, and infographics. In an insightful manner, graphic designer Reynoud Homan shows us the...
Collecting envelopes transported by airplane on the maiden flight to a new destination was a favorite pastime from the very beginning of aviation. During the Second World War, it was difficult to continue doing so,...
After the Second World War, regular KLM scheduled flight traffic resumed quickly. On May 21, 1946, the first transatlantic flight was operated from Amsterdam to New York. For this occasion, a special stamp was produced that...
The transport of letters and postcards by air became increasingly common from 1927 onwards. Consequently, establishing air freight charges for the transport of postal items became necessary to stimulate air mail transport. This happened everywhere...
From 1935, the American aircraft manufacturer Douglas Aircraft Company built a new type of aircraft, the DC-3, also known as the Dakota. In the Netherlands, the first DC-3 was purchased by KLM in 1936, which christened the aircraft the Ibis...
Collecting first-day covers has been around for a very long time. Many thousands of collectors have collected these envelopes, mostly issued by the Dutch Association of Stamp Dealers. And these envelopes still appear with the issuance of new stamps. But last-day covers? Only a handful...
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