INDIA 80 INTERNATIONAL STAMP EXHIBITION (2ND ISSUE) MAIL CARRYING AIRCRAFT 1979

De Havilland Puss Moth 

 

Stamp Issue Date : 15/10/1979 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.30 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0942 Postal Stamp Name : DE HAVILLAND PUSS MOTH Stamp Information : Speed is of essence in transmission of messages. In the past man had trained pigeons to carry messages speedily over inhospitable terrain and long distances. Today man has lofted sophisticated satellites in space to transmit messages ultra-sonically all over the world. Earth bound man broke his shackles in 1903 when the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight. The history was created on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquret took off in a Humber biplan from the right bank of the Yamuna Allahabad, crossed over to the left bank and dropped a mail bag containing 6500 letters and postcards at the Naini Railway Station. This arrangement by the Indian Post & Telegraphs marked the very first instance in the world when mail was carried by air. After a short lived service run by the Government in 1921, the first regular airmail service started in India in 1929. the State owned Indian State Air Service started operating an inland airmail service that year between Delhi and Karachi to connect the Imperial Airway?s Empire Airmail Service to England. From January 1932 Delhi Flying Club operated the service on this sector. On October 15, 1932 the first Indian aviator J.R.D. Tata flying a single-engined De Havilland Puss Moth, made the maiden via Ahmedabad, Bombay and Bellary. Shortly after Independence, on January 30, 1949 the Government of India launched the Night Airmail Service linking the metropolitan cities of Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi and Madras through Nagpur in central India. The archetict of this scheme was late Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, then India?s Minister of Communications. The Night Airmail Service on an average carried every month about 2,200 Kgs. Of mail with airmail surcharge. Less than three month later, late Shri Kidwai introduced the ?All-Up Mail Scheme? under which all first class domestic mail is air-lifted without any surcharge. Today India?s nationalized domestic air-carrier, INDIAN AIRLINES carries more than 1,200 tonnes of mail over its domestic network every month. India?s international flag carrier, the AIR INDIA carries the bulk of country?s foreign airmail. In peace and war INDIAN AIR FORCE have been ferrying mail for and from the forces. During the last three decades the pilots of the IAF transport fleet have made maiden flights into the uncharted regions of the Himalayas and the lesser ranges. Beginning with DC-3 Dakota aircraft in 1947, the Air force now used high-flying jets to fly the mail. Of late a new breed of intrepid helicopter pilots have taken over the hazardous task of carring the mail to the remotest out-posts. Weaving intricate patterns through snow-capped peaks and narrow valleys they land at tiny helipads to deliver their eagerly awaited cargo. Posts and Telegraphs Department honours all those who have been and are associates with carriage of mails by air by issuing a set of four stamps on AIRMAIL. This set is a part of the series of 10 special stamps commemorating the India International Stamp Exhibition (INDIA-80) to be held at New Delhi from January 25,1980 to February 3, 1980. the first two stamps in the series, on INDIA-80 and the Centenary of Postcard, were issued on July 2, 1979. The remaining 4 stamps will issue on January 25, 1980. Philatelic Stamp Description : 30p. stamp depicts the De Havilland Puss Moth in flight. This aircraft was flown by J.R.D. Tata on the maiden scheduled airmail service between Karachi and Madras on October 15, 1932. Stamp Currency : P Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 4.06 X 2.28 cms Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.80 X 2.0 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 50 Stamp Perforations : 14x14,1/2 Postal Stamp Shape : Horizontal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 50,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour

Indian Air Force `Chetak

 

Stamp Issue Date : 15/10/1979 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.50 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0943 Postal Stamp Name : INDIAN AIR FORCE `CHETAK Stamp Information : Speed is of essence in transmission of messages. In the past man had trained pigeons to carry messages speedily over inhospitable terrain and long distances. Today man has lofted sophisticated satellites in space to transmit messages ultra-sonically all over the world. Earth bound man broke his shackles in 1903 when the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight. The history was created on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquret took off in a Humber biplan from the right bank of the Yamuna Allahabad, crossed over to the left bank and dropped a mail bag containing 6500 letters and postcards at the Naini Railway Station. This arrangement by the Indian Post & Telegraphs marked the very first instance in the world when mail was carried by air. After a short lived service run by the Government in 1921, the first regular airmail service started in India in 1929. the State owned Indian State Air Service started operating an inland airmail service that year between Delhi and Karachi to connect the Imperial Airway?s Empire Airmail Service to England. From January 1932 Delhi Flying Club operated the service on this sector. On October 15, 1932 the first Indian aviator J.R.D. Tata flying a single-engined De Havilland Puss Moth, made the maiden via Ahmedabad, Bombay and Bellary. Shortly after Independence, on January 30, 1949 the Government of India launched the Night Airmail Service linking the metropolitan cities of Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi and Madras through Nagpur in central India. The archetict of this scheme was late Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, then India?s Minister of Communications. The Night Airmail Service on an average carried every month about 2,200 Kgs. Of mail with airmail surcharge. Less than three month later, late Shri Kidwai introduced the ?All-Up Mail Scheme? under which all first class domestic mail is air-lifted without any surcharge. Today India?s nationalized domestic air-carrier, INDIAN AIRLINES carries more than 1,200 tonnes of mail over its domestic network every month. India?s international flag carrier, the AIR INDIA carries the bulk of country?s foreign airmail. In peace and war INDIAN AIR FORCE have been ferrying mail for and from the forces. During the last three decades the pilots of the IAF transport fleet have made maiden flights into the uncharted regions of the Himalayas and the lesser ranges. Beginning with DC-3 Dakota aircraft in 1947, the Air force now used high-flying jets to fly the mail. Of late a new breed of intrepid helicopter pilots have taken over the hazardous task of carring the mail to the remotest out-posts. Weaving intricate patterns through snow-capped peaks and narrow valleys they land at tiny helipads to deliver their eagerly awaited cargo. Posts and Telegraphs Department honours all those who have been and are associates with carriage of mails by air by issuing a set of four stamps on AIRMAIL. This set is a part of the series of 10 special stamps commemorating the India International Stamp Exhibition (INDIA-80) to be held at New Delhi from January 25,1980 to February 3, 1980. the first two stamps in the series, on INDIA-80 and the Centenary of Postcard, were issued on July 2, 1979. The remaining 4 stamps will issue on January 25, 1980. Philatelic Stamp Description : 50p. stamp shows CHETAK helicopter against a background of snow-capped peaks. This general purpose helicopter of Indian manufacture is extensively used by the Indian Air Force for carriage of mails in the forward areas. Stamp Currency : P Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 4.06 X 2.28 cms Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.80 X 2.0 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 50 Stamp Perforations : 14x14,1/2 Postal Stamp Shape : Horizontal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour

Indian Airlines Boeing 737

 

Stamp Issue Date : 15/10/1979 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 1.00 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0944 Postal Stamp Name : INDIAN AIRLINES BOEING 737 Stamp Information : Speed is of essence in transmission of messages. In the past man had trained pigeons to carry messages speedily over inhospitable terrain and long distances. Today man has lofted sophisticated satellites in space to transmit messages ultra-sonically all over the world. Earth bound man broke his shackles in 1903 when the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight. The history was created on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquret took off in a Humber biplan from the right bank of the Yamuna Allahabad, crossed over to the left bank and dropped a mail bag containing 6500 letters and postcards at the Naini Railway Station. This arrangement by the Indian Post & Telegraphs marked the very first instance in the world when mail was carried by air. After a short lived service run by the Government in 1921, the first regular airmail service started in India in 1929. the State owned Indian State Air Service started operating an inland airmail service that year between Delhi and Karachi to connect the Imperial Airway?s Empire Airmail Service to England. From January 1932 Delhi Flying Club operated the service on this sector. On October 15, 1932 the first Indian aviator J.R.D. Tata flying a single-engined De Havilland Puss Moth, made the maiden via Ahmedabad, Bombay and Bellary. Shortly after Independence, on January 30, 1949 the Government of India launched the Night Airmail Service linking the metropolitan cities of Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi and Madras through Nagpur in central India. The archetict of this scheme was late Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, then India?s Minister of Communications. The Night Airmail Service on an average carried every month about 2,200 Kgs. Of mail with airmail surcharge. Less than three month later, late Shri Kidwai introduced the ?All-Up Mail Scheme? under which all first class domestic mail is air-lifted without any surcharge. Today India?s nationalized domestic air-carrier, INDIAN AIRLINES carries more than 1,200 tonnes of mail over its domestic network every month. India?s international flag carrier, the AIR INDIA carries the bulk of country?s foreign airmail. In peace and war INDIAN AIR FORCE have been ferrying mail for and from the forces. During the last three decades the pilots of the IAF transport fleet have made maiden flights into the uncharted regions of the Himalayas and the lesser ranges. Beginning with DC-3 Dakota aircraft in 1947, the Air force now used high-flying jets to fly the mail. Of late a new breed of intrepid helicopter pilots have taken over the hazardous task of carring the mail to the remotest out-posts. Weaving intricate patterns through snow-capped peaks and narrow valleys they land at tiny helipads to deliver their eagerly awaited cargo. Posts and Telegraphs Department honours all those who have been and are associates with carriage of mails by air by issuing a set of four stamps on AIRMAIL. This set is a part of the series of 10 special stamps commemorating the India International Stamp Exhibition (INDIA-80) to be held at New Delhi from January 25,1980 to February 3, 1980. the first two stamps in the series, on INDIA-80 and the Centenary of Postcard, were issued on July 2, 1979. The remaining 4 stamps will issue on January 25, 1980. Philatelic Stamp Description : 100p. stamp depicts mail being loaded into a BOEING-737 jet aircraft of the Indian Airlines. The inroduction of this jet aircraft has helped in speeding up of mail transportation inside the country. Stamp Currency : R Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 4.06 X 2.28 cms Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.80 X 2.0 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 50 Stamp Perforations : 14x14,1/2 Postal Stamp Shape : Horizontal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 20,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour

Air India Boeing 747

Stamp Issue Date : 15/10/1979 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 2.00 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0945 Postal Stamp Name : AIR INDIA BOEING 747 Stamp Information : Speed is of essence in transmission of messages. In the past man had trained pigeons to carry messages speedily over inhospitable terrain and long distances. Today man has lofted sophisticated satellites in space to transmit messages ultra-sonically all over the world. Earth bound man broke his shackles in 1903 when the Wright Brothers made the first powered flight. The history was created on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquret took off in a Humber biplan from the right bank of the Yamuna Allahabad, crossed over to the left bank and dropped a mail bag containing 6500 letters and postcards at the Naini Railway Station. This arrangement by the Indian Post & Telegraphs marked the very first instance in the world when mail was carried by air. After a short lived service run by the Government in 1921, the first regular airmail service started in India in 1929. the State owned Indian State Air Service started operating an inland airmail service that year between Delhi and Karachi to connect the Imperial Airway?s Empire Airmail Service to England. From January 1932 Delhi Flying Club operated the service on this sector. On October 15, 1932 the first Indian aviator J.R.D. Tata flying a single-engined De Havilland Puss Moth, made the maiden via Ahmedabad, Bombay and Bellary. Shortly after Independence, on January 30, 1949 the Government of India launched the Night Airmail Service linking the metropolitan cities of Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi and Madras through Nagpur in central India. The archetict of this scheme was late Shri Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, then India?s Minister of Communications. The Night Airmail Service on an average carried every month about 2,200 Kgs. Of mail with airmail surcharge. Less than three month later, late Shri Kidwai introduced the ?All-Up Mail Scheme? under which all first class domestic mail is air-lifted without any surcharge. Today India?s nationalized domestic air-carrier, INDIAN AIRLINES carries more than 1,200 tonnes of mail over its domestic network every month. India?s international flag carrier, the AIR INDIA carries the bulk of country?s foreign airmail. In peace and war INDIAN AIR FORCE have been ferrying mail for and from the forces. During the last three decades the pilots of the IAF transport fleet have made maiden flights into the uncharted regions of the Himalayas and the lesser ranges. Beginning with DC-3 Dakota aircraft in 1947, the Air force now used high-flying jets to fly the mail. Of late a new breed of intrepid helicopter pilots have taken over the hazardous task of carring the mail to the remotest out-posts. Weaving intricate patterns through snow-capped peaks and narrow valleys they land at tiny helipads to deliver their eagerly awaited cargo. Posts and Telegraphs Department honours all those who have been and are associates with carriage of mails by air by issuing a set of four stamps on AIRMAIL. This set is a part of the series of 10 special stamps commemorating the India International Stamp Exhibition (INDIA-80) to be held at New Delhi from January 25,1980 to February 3, 1980. the first two stamps in the series, on INDIA-80 and the Centenary of Postcard, were issued on July 2, 1979. The remaining 4 stamps will issue on January 25, 1980. Philatelic Stamp Description : 200p. stamp shows BOEING-747 aircraft of the AR INDIA cruising high above the mountains. Cruising at a height of 14,000 metres, the 747 jumbo-jet can fly at a speed of 580 Kms. per hour upto an operating range of 8,000 Kms. Stamp Currency : R Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 4.06 X 2.28 cms Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.80 X 2.0 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 50 Stamp Perforations : 14x14,1/2 Postal Stamp Shape : Horizontal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 20,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour

Flying & Gliding

Since time Immemorial man has looked up with envy at the birds in free flight and aspired to soar with them high into the serene blue sky. Today man has not only learnt to fly but has crossed the frontiers of space and walked on the moon. As the awesome expanse of a new universe opens before us and the impossible melts into the possible, the arduous and patient efforts of the early pioneers to translate aspiration into achievement glow from the pages of the history of mankind.

In this saga of human endeavour, ballooning preceded gliding and flying came even later. The history of gliding is replete with achievements of men from different countries. The British pioneers Cayley, Henson and Stringfellow made theoretical investigations and model flight experiments and were followed by early exponents of gliding. The names of Otto and Gustav Liliental, the Le Bris, Langley, Chanute, Wilbur and Orville Wright blaze in the firmament of gliding history. In India, the pioneers were Appasaheb B. Pant and a group of young men who set up a Gliding Club in 1928 at Aundh in Maharashtra, built their own gliders based on designs from abroad and achieved a number of successful flights. Their efforts gave birth to the Indian Gliding Association in 1929. A further boost to gliding in this country was given by Fardun H. Irani who in 1938 was the first Indian to qualify for the 1ntemational Silver 'C'. From the first gliding centre near Pune in Maharashtra in 1929, gliding activities have now come to range over sixteen centres and clubs all over the country. Today advanced gliders of Indian design and material, designed and developed by the Research & Development Wing of the Indian Civil Aviation Department, are indigenously manufactured to meet the requirements of the civil gliding clubs and the Air Wing of the National Cadet Corps.

The Wright Brothers created history when they made the powered flight on 17th December 1903. In India, at an exhibition held at Allahabad in February 1911, the greatest attraction was the joy rides given by a French aviator, Henri Piquet in a Humber biplane. By 1928, the days of intrepid pilots like, the Wright Brothers, Bleriot, Farman, Curtiss and others flying weird looking contraptions of woods. wire, bicycle wheels and canvas into the blue yonder were over. But in India, the interest in flying gathered momentum with the establishment of the Aero Club of India in 1928. Its pioneering efforts laid the foundations of civil and sports aviation in our country. Today it is the apex organisation, and the national authority for promotion of general aviation and aero-sports in the country.

Among the Indian pioneers, J.R.D. Tata was the first person to receive the Aviator's Certificate from the Aero Club of India and Burma in February 1929. In 1930, the Aga Khan Prize of £500 to the first Indian who would fly solo between India and England in either direction in not more than 30 days was won by 17-year old Aspy Engineer, who thirty years later rose to command the Indian Air Force.

During the past five decades, the flying clubs, which now number about 25 in the country, have rendered yeoman service, from providing primary training ground for commercial as well as Air Force pilots to carrying mail. Delhi Flying Club had the distinction of operating an exclusive airmail service between Delhi and Karachi, in the early 1930s. Today the flying clubs and gliding centres are engaged in promotion of not only flying and gliding but also the other thrilling and adventurous aerosports of ballooning, parachuting, etc.

Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department feels privileged to commemorate the flying and gliding movement in India by issuing a special postage stamp.

Description of the Design :

The stamp depicts "Hindustan Pushpak" aircraft and "Rohini-l" glider.

Date of Issue : 10.12.1979