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Aerophilately is the branch of philately that specializes in the study of
airmail Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send. Airmail may be t ...
. Philatelists have observed the development of
mail The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal sys ...
transport by air from its beginning, and all aspects of airmail service have been extensively studied and documented by specialists.


Scope

The scope of aerophilately includes: *airmail
postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the f ...
s, both official and unofficial (see list of US airmail postage
here Here is an adverb that means "in, on, or at this place". It may also refer to: Software * Here Technologies, a mapping company * Here WeGo (formerly Here Maps), a mobile app and map website by Here Technologies, Here Television * Here TV (form ...
) *other types of labels (such as airmail etiquettes) *postal documents transmitted by air *
postal marking A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. The most common types are postmarks and cancellations; almost every letter will have those. Less common types include forwarding addresses, routing annotation ...
s related to air transport *rates and routes, particularly first flights and other "special" flights *mail recovered from aircraft accidents and other incidents ( crash covers) While most of the study of airmail assumes transport by fixed-wing aircraft, the fields of
balloon mail Balloon mail is the transport of mail (usually for weight reasons in the form of a postcard) carrying the name of the sender by means of an unguided hydrogen or helium filled balloon. Since the balloon is not controllable, the delivery of a ballo ...
, dirigible mail,
zeppelin mail Zeppelin mail was mail carried on zeppelins, the Germany, German airships that saw civilian use from 1908 to 1939. Almost every zeppelin flight carried mail, sometimes in large quantities; the Cover (philately), covers usually received special post ...
, missile mail, and
rocket mail Rocket mail is the delivery of mail by rocket or missile. The rocket lands by deploying an internal parachute upon arrival. It has been attempted by various organizations in many different countries, with varying levels of success. It has nev ...
are active subspecialties.
Astrophilately Astrophilately is a branch of philately which deals with the collection of stamps and postmarked envelopes related to spaceflight. It is the intersection of space and postal history. Covers cancelled on the date and at a post office near the c ...
, the study of mail in space, is a related area.


Organizations

International Federation of Aerophilatelic Societies, (FISA), is the umbrella organization for aerophilately though aerophilatelists have formed a number of organizations around the world; many of them put out a variety of specialized publications.
Federation Internationale de Philatelie A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government (federalism). In a federation, the self-governi ...
(FIP) also maintains a commission.FIP official commissions webpage
Retrieved 27 June 2017.


See also

*
Airmail Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send. Airmail may be t ...
*
Airmail stamps of Denmark Denmark issued ten definitive airmail stamps between 1925 and 1934 in two distinct series. The 1st series, commonly called ''The Plow and Airplane'' was first issued in June 1925. These stamps were designed by Danish artist Axel Peder Jensen (188 ...
* Airmails of the United States *
Fitzgerald Collection The Fitzgerald Collection is an extensive philatelic collection of air mail stamps donated to the British Library and announced in 1951. In 1953 a further donation of funds was provided by Mrs Augustine Fitzgerald to preserve and catalogue the co ...
*
List of United States airmail stamps Domestic U.S. Air Mail was established as a new class of mail service by the United States Post Office Department (POD) on May 15, 1918, with the inauguration of the Washington–Philadelphia–New York route. Special postage stamps wer ...
*
Scott Collection The Scott Collection is a collection of philatelic material relating to British internal airmails that forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. The collection is comprehensive in most areas and ends in the 1970s. It includes a spec ...
A collection of British internal airmails. * Seymour Collection A collection relating to the
de Havilland Comet The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype first flew in 1949. It featured an aerodynamically clean design with four ...
.


References


Further reading

*Richard McP. Cabeen, ''Standard Handbook of Stamp Collecting'' (Collectors Club, 1979), pp. 207–221 *Cheryl Ganz, ed. ''Collecting Air Mail'' (American Air Mail Society) *''American Air Mail Catalogue'' (AAMS, 6th ed. 1998) * *William Victor Kriebel, ''A History of the Development of Air Mail Service in Brazil'' (AAMS) *William J. Murphy, ''Irish Airmail 1919-1990'' (Irish Airmail Society, 1996) * * * * * *Gérard Collot and Alain Cornu, ''Ligne Mermoz, catalog of French airmail flight covers, 1919-1940


External links


FIP Commission for AerophilatelyAmerican Air Mail SocietyBritish Air Mail SocietyFédération Internationale des Sociétés AérophilatéliquesIrish Airmail SocietyMetropolitan Air Post Society
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