INTRODUCTION; Possibly as many as 2,000 different fancy cancellations exist from the period between the early 1920s to the mid 1930s, but this area of fancy cancel collecting is often misunderstood. It is the...
INTRODUCTION; The carraige of mail by airship began almost immediately with the earliest flights after the turn of the 20th century. The Zeppelin company soon realized that carrying mail, which appealed...
Who is THE HUMAN FLY? A comic book hero?An insect-like, "b-list"Spider-Man villain? Simply a death defying thrill-seeker?Perhaps even an actual stuntman?Though the name "The Human Fly" can identify numerous...
Describes the last voyage of the zeppelin, or airship, Hindenburg, which crashed in flames on a New Jersey airfield in 1937, and examines some possible causes for the disaster.