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| 1997: For Us Children |
The ultimate air mail arriving by the power of hot air.
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| 1983: Bicentenary of Manned Flight |
Left: - In 1859
John Wise carried 123 letters in his hot air balloon 'Jupiter', the first official airmail delivery for the US Post Office. Right: - The pioneering flights of balloons during the Siege of Paris of which the The Neptune was the first to take off in 1870. Weight was of great importance because every balloon had to reach the altitude of at least 3,300 ft (1000m) in order to be beyond the range of the Prussian rifles. Neptune took off from the hill at Montmartre with three bags of mail weighing a total of 125g, and eventually landed in the grounds of Castle Cracouille at Evreux, 104 miles NW of Paris.
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| 1983: Bicentenary of Manned Flight |
Hungarian Hot Air Balloons for leisure. The captive observation balloon at the Budapest Exhibition in 1896 and the 1904 Balloon Chase Race. Balloon racing became quite popular at this time unfortunately I could only find a passing reference to Hungarian races but this paragraph of
British events in 1904 gives the gist of the pursuit.
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| 1989: International Young Inventors Exhibition, Plovdiv | |
Bright young minds travelling to Plovdiv, the tiger arrives by hot air balloon.
Sunday Stamps A-Z, this week it is H for Hungary and Hot Air Balloons - See It On A Postcard
3 comments:
oooh! what fun collection!!!
Great stamps! You must have an extensive collection.
Although I would not dare to ride on a hot air balloon, I like the see of them. And they always remind me of Verne's novel!
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