Four Days and Six Days
The Nijmegen Four Days Marches is an event that always gets me excited. Because we lived south of Nijmegen for years, in Malden, where the army of walkers passes by on the last day on their way to the 'Via Gladiola'. I was...
aircraft-aviation
Below you will find articles about aircraft aviation. Or click here to view stamps with the subject aircraft aviation in the catalog.
First KNILM flight Surabaya-Manokwari
From the early 1920s, regular test flights took place in the former Dutch East Indies to transport mail within the archipelago. Initially, these flights were carried out with aircraft of the Naval Air Service, but from October 1928, flights were operated by the KNILM....
Critical voices, part 1
Writing about the First World War almost always means a story about the horrors of the battle, the trenches, the bombardments, the development of new, increasingly destructive weapons: tanks, airplanes, mustard gas, the tens of thousands of dead, killed or maimed far from home. In...
'Mercury' airmail stamps
Because I received a receipt bearing two 1-guilder airmail stamps and a 75-cent airmail stamp, I went looking for more information about the stamps featuring an image of 'Mercury'. The receipt was for...
Entry into service of the DC-3 on the Indies line
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...
Airmail to America during World War II
One of my stamp collections involves gathering impressions of advertising flags from stamping machines. Especially those flags from just before, during, and just after the Second World War. As an example, an impression of the stamp flag: Vacation in a Peaceful Fatherland, used...
Airmail from the mainland to a seagoing vessel
The airmail service was undergoing rapid development in the late 20s and early 30s. Test flights were conducted from seagoing vessels with small aircraft that departed from those ships on the high seas with mail to the mainland to...
The first official airmail from the Netherlands to abroad
The heyday of collecting envelopes issued on the occasion of 'first flights' is long gone. However, first flights still take place where postal items can be included. Usually, if one limits oneself to the Netherlands, these are flights...
Group flight Italia
On June 16, 1933, a series of three overprinted stamps was issued to commemorate the stopover in Iceland of an Italian squadron of flying boats under the command of Italian Marshal Balbo. The squadron was en route to the World's Fair...
