DOCSLIB.ORG

1946 Flying Mail Car Experimental Flight, Return to the East Coast

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
1946 Flying Mail Car Experimental Flight, Return to the East Coast AAIIRRPPOOSSTT JJOOUURRNNAALL The Official Publication of the American Air Mail Society April 2016 Volume 87, No. 4 Whole No. 1030 April’s Featured Article — FFCs from Cape Verde: Air France 4R, 1934 Page 137 Zeppelins & Aerophilately Ask for our Free Price List of Worldwide Flight covers and stamps. The following is a small sampling – full list on Website! United States US C13 - C15 set of card and 2 covers w/matched wide bottom plate numbers. VF condition . $1,350.00 US C13 FDC--F-VF stamp on unusual front of pictorial airmail enve - lope, flown to Seville with Seville + NY/Chicago RPO Receiving B/S. Interesting usage . $750.00 Germany 1930 C38 - C39 Pan Am flight to Lakehurst S.57N . $750.00 Liechtenstein 1936 official mail Olympic flight dispatch 020 S.427 . $750.00 Luxembourg 1936 1st North America flight . Hindenburg $425.00 Malta 1933 Chicago flight to Brazil S.238Aaa . $875.00 Mauritania 1934 3rd South America Flight, to Argentina S.254Ba . $1,850.00 Mexico 1936 2nd North America Flight S.411D . $750.00 Monaco 1932 5th South America Flight, sent to Brazil S.171Aa . $875.00 Netherlands/Belgium 1937 Flight Crash to Monaco . $750.00 New Guinea 1939 (March 13) C46-48,C51-54 on 4 airmail covers, stamped "First Day of Issue," 1 cover registered. T.N.G - Austria, addressed to Garden City, NY . $225.00 Newfoundland 1932 DO - X to England . $350.00 Henry Gitner Philatelists, Inc. PO Box 3077T, Middletown NY 10940 Email: [email protected] — http://www.hgitner.com APRIL 2016 PAGE 133 In This Issue of the Airpost Journal President’s Jim Graue Message — ARTICLES — FFCs from Cape Verde: Air France 4R, 1934 ............................................... 137 New York 2016 Looms Ahead The 2016 World Philatelic Exhibition is coming up very quickly – Dan Gribbin 1946 Flying Mail Car Experimental Flight, Return to the East Coast .......... 142 May 28 through June 4, eight days. Recommended arrival is May 26, set- Dan Gribbin up on May 27, show opens on Saturday, May 28: virtually all AAMS FAKE! ........................................................................................................... 147 meetings and programs are scheduled for the first two days. William Kriebel AAMS will have a society booth – No. 777 – near the Food Court A Deeper Dive ............................................................................................... 149 area. We are sharing that space with the Metropolitan Air Post Society David S. Ball, RPSL (MAPS) and the Wreck & Crash Mail Society. Each participant in our The ‘LATI Substitute’ Service of Pan American Airways, Part 7 ................ 156 booth (AAMS, MAPS and Wreck/Crash) gets a 16-page frame for pro - John Wilson motion of their group interests and membership benefits. I am undertak - Would Juan Trippe Have Been Furious When He Received this Cover? ..... 164 ing the coordination of preparation of our frame. We need not duplicate Richard Saundry what the others show. The AAMS frame will include examples of world-wide aerophi - — COLUMNS and FEATURES — lately. Photos of the aircraft used will provide heightened interest. We Treasure Hunting for CAM Covers ............................................................... 168 need a "show-stopper" high-profile display that will draw viewers; no President’s Message ...................................................................................... 135 mundane examples. Every item should be a magnet for the eyes. Sugges - tions for inclusion will all be considered. One page will be dedicated to — NEWS — AAMS promotion, but with AAMS staffing at the table, that will be plen - Help Needed Finding ‘Lost’ Members .......................................................... 146 ty. News of the Shows ........................................................................................ 167 There is no need to use originals; high quality colors scans are Plan Now for CHICAGAOPEX 2016 ........................................................... 170 sufficient for this display. — DEPARTMENTS – Comments and recommendations are welcome. Time is of the APJ Ads ......................................................................................................... 176 Membership Report ....................................................................................... 173 essence; no last minute changes. Deadline for having everything in my hand is April 15. I am already preparing a prospective list of items to be displayed. Your participation in this project is invited. Do you have a Editor and Advertising gem or two to submit for consideration? Sure you do . we all do! Send Vickie Canfield Peters 11911 E Connor Road Valleyford WA 99036 vcanfi[email protected] it to me as soon as possible so it can be considered for inclusion. Staff Writers and Columnists Please give immediate top priority to this request. Thank you for Joe Kirker Alan Warren your assistance. Chris Hargreaves Bob Wilcsek Lee Downer Copyright 2016 The American Air Mail Society . The Airpost Journal (ISSN 0739-0939) is pub - lished monthly by the American Air Mail Society, 11911 E. Connor Road, Valleyford WA 99036. AAMS Membership Services and Benefits Periodical postage paid at Spokane WA 99201 and additional post offices. Postmaster: Send We recently asked for your ideas and recommendations on what address changes to American Air Mail Society, 7 First St., Westfield NY 14787. Domestic sub - we can do as a society to enhance membership services and benefits. scription rate $30 per year; $5 per copy. Thus far we have two responses in hand. Opinions expressed in features and columns in this publication are solely those of the authors and • Index the do not necessarily represent those of the society. Running an ad does not endorse the advertiser. AAMC 7th Edition PAGE 134 AIRPOST JOURNAL APRIL 2016 PAGE 135 We received three requests that this be done. We need to have a member step forward who has the time and inclination to undertake this FFCs from Cape Verde: as an on-going project. The sooner it is started, the easier it will be to maintain it by making additions as additional volumes become available. Air France 4R, 1934 If you are willing to take this on, please contact me soon. And ”thank you” for your consideration! Dan Gribbin • Aerophilatelic Exhibits for the AAMS Website In 1934, French and German aviation authorities pursued sepa - “Following your encouragement in the latest copy of here is APJ rate approaches to the daunting task of establishing regular airmail ser - my idea. Strongly encourage all aerophilatelic exhibitors to send an elec - vice across the South Atlantic. The 1,800-mile (3000 km) distance tronic copy (pdf perhaps) of their exhibit so it can be posted on the between the westernmost tip of Africa and the eastermost tip of Brazil AAMS website. Metadata would include exhibitor name, exhibit title, posed a serious challenge to existing aviation technology. Deutsche Luft number of frames, show, date, class entered and award. Hansa began biweekly flights in February, minimizing the overwater “This would accomplish several things. It would encourage col - flight distance by launching a flying boat from a ship that would steam lectors to exhibit and post their work online. It would get both members away from the coast for the better part of a day prior to launch. The and non-members to frequent the website. It assists those of us research - French soon deployed a flying boat, the ill-fated Latécoère 300 Croix du ing new exhibits to see what others have done. The more searchable the , but they also had a land-based aircraft capable of spanning the Sud better. I routinely post my exhibits and get positive feedback. You can ocean, as Mermoz demonstrated in January 1933 with the Couzinet Arc- see them at . What they did not have was a dependable runway in Brazil from en-Ciel. http://americanastrophilately.com/Exhibits.html which to dispatch the fuel-laden aircraft for the return flight. David Ball” Indeed, Flight 2R (using the Labrousse designation of flights adopted by Collot and Cornu in ), the 1933 return flight of Ligne Mermoz the did not take place until May, four months after the air - Arc-en-Ciel, Aerophilatelic Programs Available on CD craft’s arrival in Brazil. (1) Similarly, after Mermoz successfully flew the The American Air Mail Society now has seven different aerophi - from St. Louis, Senegal to Natal, Brazil in 16 hours on May 28, Arc-en-Ciel latelic programs available on CD-ROM. Each is a PowerPoint 2010 pre - 1934, the return flight (4R) was delayed by two months. sentation showing covers and related material, along with spoken narra - Following extensive work on the sandy soil of the runway at tion. Titles can be purchased for $10 each. The $10 per program cost Natal, a June 3 test flight seemed to suggest that the runway would be includes shipping. satisfactory. But, fully loaded, the aircraft could not achieve sufficient The programs are ideal for showing at stamp club meetings, for speed for takeoff in the moist sand. (3) Further runway work allowed the educational purposes or personal use. Subjects include Lindbergh, histo - aircraft to get airborne on July 3, but, sadly, that flight had to be aborted ry of aerophilately, Airships of the United States, crash covers, CAM 9. after four and a half hours due to inclement weather. (1) (3) And then the rains came. The eventual successful crossing on Order should be sent to: July 28, 1934, is the subject of this study, specifically the first flight covers Ken Sanford that were generated when the took on a small amount of mail
Load more

Recommended publications
  • 14 Seduta Di Martedì 24 Ottobre 1989
    SEDUTA DI MARTEDÌ 24 OTTOBRE 1989 257 14 SEDUTA DI MARTEDÌ 24 OTTOBRE 1989 PRESIDENZA DEL PRESIDENTE DELLA IX COMMISSIONE DELLA CAMERA ANTONIO TESTA SEDUTA DI MARTEDÌ 24 OTTOBRE 1989 259 La seduta comimcia alle 15,45. tenzione degli impianti visivi relativi alla navigazione aerea. (Le Commissioni approvano il processo Nella relazione abbiamo cercato di verbale della seduta precedente). dare un quadro sintetico della situazione concernente la gestione portuale. Il primo dato che emerge è che nel nostro paese Audizione dei rappresentanti dell'Assaero- esistono aeroporti gestiti in forma totale porti e della GESAP. ed altri in cui i gestori aeroportuali hanno solo la responsabilità dei servizi, PRESIDENTE. L'ordine del giorno ma non della gestione complessiva. Si reca il seguito dell'indagine conoscitiva tratta di un primo problema che segna• sulla sicurezza del volo. Nella seduta liamo alla vostra attenzione. In prospet• odierna sono previste le audizioni dei tiva sarebbe di aiuto al miglioramento rappresentanti dell'Assaeroporti e della del sistema complessivo una chiara iden• GESAP, dell'Alisarda, delle compagnie di tificazione, anche in termini di responsa• terzo livello, del presidente dell'Aeroclub bilità, di chi deve gestire l'aeroporto e di d'Italia, dell'ANIGAM e delle associazioni chi deve, invece, svolgere un'azione di co• dei consumatori. ordinamento ed effettuare un'opera di in• Nell'ambito dell'audizione dei rappre• dirizzo e di controllo, anche in relazione sentanti dell'Assaeroporti e della Gesap, ai piani nazionali. partecipano alla seduta odierna il dottor Attualmente, sono solo otto gli aero• Domenico Cempella, l'ingegner Francesco porti a gestione totale, nei quali cioè il Di Martino, l'ingegner Giuseppe Maritano, gestore ha la responsabilità del funziona• il comandante Agostino Ferrari e il dottor mento complessivo dello scalo.
    [Show full text]
  • Alitalia – Etihad Transaction Presentation at Luiss University
    Presentation at Luiss University 1 December 2014 Alitalia – Etihad Transaction Case Study Alitalia (AZ) Summary Overview The Birth of the “New” Alitalia Alitalia – Compagnia Aerea Italiana (“CAI” or the “Company”) is a private company that started its operations in January 2009 The Company currently flies to 103 destinations, of which 26 in Italy and 77 for the rest of the world, 186 routes and more than 4,700 weekly flights. In 2013: – Carried 23 million passengers – Generated €3.4 billion revenues One of the youngest fleets in the world with an average age of 6.5 years Alitalia is a member of the SkyTeam global alliance and, since 2010, forms part with Air France-KLM and Delta Air Lines of the main air transport Transatlantic Joint Venture The Hub The Fleet The Crew Fiumicino Airport Source: Companies press releases and websites, news articles. 1 Alitalia: A Long Story of Difficulties Since 2000 Alitalia has cumulated negative results in excess of ca.€9.0bn, including ca.€3.0bn of liquidation costs related to Alitalia – Linee Aeree Italiane. Alitalia – Linee Aeree Italiane Alitalia – Compagnia Aerea Italiana Net Income Evolution (€m) Net Income Evolution (€m) 93 (69) (168) (168) (256) (280) (327) (512) (495) (569) (626) (844) (907) (1,000)(1) 2000A 2001A 2002A 2003A 2004A 2005A 2006A 2007A 2008E 2009A 2010A 2011A 2012A 2013A Cumulated Net Income (€m) Cumulated Net Income (€m) (256) (327) (494) (1,163) (1,070) (1,582) (563) (843) (2,426) (2,594) (1,411) (3,220) (3,715) (4,715) 2009A 2010A 2011A 2012A 2013A 2000A 2001A 2002A 2003A 2004A 2005A 2006A 2007A 2008E In the period 2000 – 2008E, Alitalia – Linee Aeree Italiane In the period 2009 – 2013, Alitalia – Compagnia Aerea Italiana posted a cumulated net loss of ca.€4.7bn posted a cumulated net loss of ca.€1.4bn According to Italian press news, the estimated liquidation cost amounted to ca.€3.0bn(2) Sources: Alitalia annual reports.
    [Show full text]
  • Bibliography
    Bibliography AIR FRANCE Carlier, c., ed. 'La construction aeronautique, Ie transport aenen, a I'aube du XXIeme siecle'. Centre d'Histoire de l'Industrie Aeronautique et Spatiale, Uni­ versity of Paris I, 1989. Chadeau, E., ed. 'Histoire de I'aviation civile'. Vincennes, Comite Latecoere and Service Historique de l'Annee de l'Air, 1994. Chadeau, E., ed. 'Airbus, un succes industriel europeen'. Paris, Institut d'Histoire de l'Industrie, 1995. Chadeau, E. 'Le reve et la puissance, I'avion et son siecle'. Paris, Fayard, 1996. Dacharry, M. 'Geographie du transport aerien'. Paris, LITEC, 1981. Esperou, R. 'Histoire d'Air France'. La Guerche, Editions Ouest France, 1986. Funel, P., ed. 'Le transport aerien fran~ais'. Paris, Documentation fran~aise, 1982. Guarino, J-G. 'La politique economique des entreprises de transport aerien, Ie cas Air France, environnement et choix'. Doctoral thesis, Nice University, 1977. Hamelin, P., ed. 'Transports 1993, professions en devenir, enjeux et dereglementation'. Paris, Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, 1992. Le Due, M., ed. 'Services publics de reseau et Europe'. Paris, Documentation fran­ ~ise, 1995. Maoui, G., Neiertz, N., ed. 'Entre ciel et terre', History of Paris Airports. Paris, Le Cherche Midi, 1995. Marais, J-G. and Simi, R 'Caviation commerciale'. Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1964. Merlin, P. 'Geographie, economie et planification des transports'. Paris, Presses uni- versitaires de France, 1991. Merlin, P. 'Les transports en France'. Paris, Documentation fran~aise, 1994. Naveau, J. 'CEurope et Ie transport aerien'. Brussels, Bruylant, 1983. Neiertz, N. 'La coordination des transports en France de 1918 a nos jours'. Unpub­ lished doctoral thesis, Paris IV- Sorbonne University, 1995.
    [Show full text]
  • 16 Marzo 2018
    Periodico del master in giornalismo dell’Università IULM - Anno 5 - Numero 5 - 16 Marzo 2018 Il decollo di Malpensa Air Italy, la nuova compagnia dei cieli italiani, punta tutto sul rilancio dell'aeroporto milanese 2 SOMMARIO MILANO MOBILITÀ Air Italy, «Saremo leader dei cieli italiani» 3 di Giulia Galliano Sacchetto e Alice Scaglioni POLITICA Milano, PD primo partito. I perché del voto 9 di Luca Palladino e Alessandro Vinci CULTURA Tempo di Libri, Francesco Piccolo conquista Milano 1813 di Beatrice Barbato SANITÀ Buongiorno Dottoressa, la clinica per donne 1819 di Enrica Iacono QUINDI... QUANDO? 23 a cura di Alessandro Follis e Nausica Samela THAT'S MILANO 25 a cura di Chiara Colangelo e Giulia Diamanti 16 MARZO 2018 3 MOBILITÀ Air Italy, «Saremo leader dei cieli italiani» Nata dalle ceneri di Meridiana, si pone l'obiettivo di diventare compagnia di riferimento per il mercato italiano, facendo di Malpensa un vero hub. di GIULIA GALLIANO SACCHETTO e ALICE SCAGLIONI 16 MARZO 2018 4 MOBILITÀ l 2018 ha portato con sé una grande novità sui cieli italiani, e forse l’hub di Milano Malpensa non sarà più un’illusione seguita da malinconiche smentite. La nascita della nuova compagnia di volo italiana, Air Italy, sorta dalle ceneri del- Ila precedente Meridiana, e grazie agli investimenti di Qatar Airways, apre uno spiraglio nel discorso degli aeroporti ita- liani, e nell’eterna lotta tra Fiumicino e Malpensa. Air Italy ha SLOGAN visto la luce come innovativa fase di sviluppo e di crescita della La nuova compagnia di volo compagnia privata Meridiana, originariamente fondata con il italiana, Air Italy, nata per rilanciare ex-Meridiana.
    [Show full text]
  • Ala Littoria
    The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the South East European Air Mail Connection to North America, 1939‐1941 Ratomir Zivkovic [email protected] I. Introduction • On September 3rd, 1939, France and Great Britain entered into the war with Germany. • PANAM changed the terminal point on its Southern Route from Marseille to Lisbon, Portugal, ( Foreign Air Mail Contract No. 18), on September 6th, 1939. • Ala Littoria service from Lisbon to Rome, so‐called “Route of the 45th parallel,” became major air mail route for the mail between continental Europe, Turkey and North America . II. The development of International Air Mail in the Kingdom of S.H.S. (Kraljevina S.H.S.), later Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Kraljevina Yugoslavia) A. Belgrade on the first transcontinental air route from Paris to Istanbul • Our Wings Club (Klub Naša krila) was formed December 1, 1918. • In March of 1923, Yugoslav government awarded a concession and signed an agreement on air carriage with the French company C.F.R.N.A. (Compagnie Franco‐Roumaine de la Navigation Aérienne). • Contracts were renewed with C.I.D.N.A. (Compagnie Internationale de la Navigation Aérienne) in 1926 and with Air France, successor of C.F.R.N.A. and C.I.D.N.A., in 1933. • Until 1927, mail was shipped by air only to the cities on the C.F.R.N.A. /C.I.D.N.A route. • On March 27th, 1927, a new Belgrade airport was opened in Zemun replacing the temporary Pančevo airport C.F.R.N.A./ C.I.D.N.A service: Paris, Strasbourg, Nuremberg, Prague, Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul • First flight out of Belgrade (Pančevo Airport) to Paris was on April 16, 1923.
    [Show full text]
  • Identificazione E Affidabilità Delle Aerolinee Nell'odierno
    Identificazione e affidabilità delle aerolinee nell’odierno scenario del trasporto aereo Stante la difficoltà di “conoscere” l’aerolinea con cui si volerà, può almeno l’utente avere la certezza che le autorità preposte abbiano svolto idonea opera di vaglio e controllo? Uno dei principali problemi con cui oggi si deve confrontare l’utente del trasporto aereo è indubbiamente costituito dall’identità del vettore che si prenderà carico di trasportarlo alla sua destinazione. Una volta, fino a qualche anno fa, questo problema davvero non esisteva. In Italia in particolare, chi decideva di volare sapeva abbastanza di Alitalia, Itavia, Meridiana per poter prendere con cognizione di causa la sua decisione; parlare di scelta del vettore sarebbe errato, in quanto i collegamenti che questi operatori esercitavano raramente erano in sovrapposizione e come tali in concorrenza fra loro. Ma oggi il problema è molto peggiorato e usando questi termini non necessariamente intendiamo far riferimento all’aspetto della safety, che pure ha la sua valenza, quanto all’altro argomento assai più elementare di conoscere, nel senso di aver almeno sentito parlare del vettore che ci porterà a destinazione. L’esempio più eclatante di quanto stiamo dicendo è dato dal recente caso della Flash Air e dell’incidente di Sharm El Sheikh. Non fraintendiamo: abbiamo già scritto e ripetiamo anche in questa occasione, che fintanto che la commissione di inchiesta non conclude la sua indagine è assolutamente sbagliato –come purtroppo è accaduto- sparare a zero a priori contro la compagnia aerea. Il discorso vale per questo come per ogni altro malaugurato incidente che si dovesse verificare.
    [Show full text]
  • Air Freight Transport a Strategic Modelling Approach on a Global Scale
    Air freight transport A strategic modelling approach on a global scale GEORGIOS TZIMOURTOS Master Thesis May 2015 Air freight Transport A strategic modelling approach on a global scale By Georgios Tzimourtos Student number: 4185269 E-mail: [email protected] in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics at the Delft University of Technology, Thesis committee: Prof.dr.ir. L.A. Tavasszy – TLO/TPM Dr. Ron van Duin (J.H.R.) – TLO/TPM Dr. Milan Janic – CiTG Dr. B.F. (Bruno) Santos – ATO/L&R An electronic version of this thesis is available at http://repository.tudelft.nl/. Cover photo credits: Deutsche Lufthansa AG Table of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Problem statement ............................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Research question and objectives ...................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Scope of this research ......................................................................................................................... 3 1.4 Approach and research methods ........................................................................................................ 4 1.5 Thesis structure ..................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Italy's Forgotten Airlines
    OLITICAL observers of the time often When Italy entered the war, the capacity of commented that Benito Mussolini was ALI and ALSA became largely directed towards somewhat distrustful of Hitler in the military campaigns in the Balkans and Greece. immediate pre-war period, to the extent Back in April 1939 ALSA’s four examples of the P of constructing an 1,851km (1,150-mile) Breda Ba 44 — a much-modified licence-built de series of fortifications, known as the Vallo Alpino Havilland Dragon Rapide — used on domestic (Alpine Wall), across Italy’s northern frontier. Albanian services, had been sequestered by Nevertheless, having watched events turn the military for operations surrounding Italy’s towards Germany’s favour during 1938–39, occupation of the territory. One unusual addition Mussolini threw in his lot with Germany and on to ALSA’s wartime fleet was Douglas DC-3 June 10, 1940, took Italy to war against the Allies. I-EMOS, which operated the Rome—Tirana At the beginning of September that year Italy’s service before being exchanged with Germany airlines were mobilised as part of Comando Servizi for various types. Formerly operated by Belgian Aerei Speciali (CSAS) under General Aurelio national airline Sabena as OO-AUH, it had been Liotta, with Avio Linee Italiane (ALI), Ala Littoria interned by the Vichy authorities at Oran in SA (ALSA) and Linee Aeree Trancontinentali Italiane Algeria while attempting to reach the Belgian (LATI) organised into the Nucleo Communicazione Congo, and was subsequently handed over to the DAVID H. STRINGER COLLECTION x 2 (Communications Group) and their crews trans- Regia Aeronautica.
    [Show full text]
  • Pan American Airways LATI Substitute Service 1942 Mail Handling and Interception January to July
    Pan American Airways LATI substitute service 1942 Mail handling and interception January to July. The Italian ‘LATI’ airline carrying Axis unexamined mail, strategic materials and enemy agents between Rome and South America was closed down in December 1941 by American pressure on Brazil. A Brazilian condition of this agreement was that the Allies provide an equivalent air mail service to and from Europe. Only Pan American Airways had aircraft capable of carrying substantial loads across the Atlantic, and it was to Pan American that the Allies turned to provide the “LATI substitute” service. An important aspect of this service was that the Allies could now intercept enemy mail that previously had been carried by LATI unexamined. A small British Imperial Censorship team was sent from UK to Bathurst, Gambia, arriving there on 12th February 1942, but by then the first Pan American flights from Natal to Lisbon had taken place, bypassing Bathurst and carrying Axis mail unintercepted in both directions. Only a few of the later flights actually called at Bathurst, and examples of examined mail are difficult to find. In late July 1942 the interception and censorship operation was transferred to San Juan, Puerto Rico and the Bathurst team eventually transferred to Lagos, Nigeria. The exhibit shows examples of the differing mail treatment of intercepted, unintercepted and diverted mail from this short but important period in WW2 aviation postal history. 1) Mail carried from South America to Europe prior to Bathurst censors. 2) Mail from South America to Europe unintercepted. 3) Mail from Europe to South America unintercepted. 4) The alternative route.
    [Show full text]
  • Aeroporti Della Sardegna
    Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti Il grande piano strategico per potenziare la rete di infrastrutture del Paese è stato uno degli obiettivi principali del Governo per rilanciare l’economia italiana. Approvato dal Comitato Interministeriale per la Programmazione Economica (CIPE) nel dicembre 2001, il piano ha per obiettivo l’adeguamento dell’offerta aeroportuale, l’informatizzazione del sistema dei trasporti, l’avvio di interventi infrastrutturali ferroviari e stradali. L’obiettivo è la creazione di un moderno sistema di trasporti, ancora più urgente nel caso della Sardegna per ovviare ai problemi posti dalla sua condizione di doppia insularità, all’esterno e all’interno dell’isola. Non vi è quindi solo un problema di distanza dai mercati a far da ostacolo a un pieno sviluppo economico della Sardegna, ma anche un problema di mercati interni scarsamente legati fra di loro. I fattori di ritardo sono da imputare da un lato alle difficoltà di collegamento con le grandi reti nazionali ed europee, dall’altro alla rete infrastrutturale interna e ai sistemi di mobilità fra i grandi centri urbani dell’isola. Le caratteristiche geografiche della Sardegna conferiscono al trasporto aereo un ruolo cruciale, estremamente delicato, che consente di garantirle la continuità territoriale e un’apertura immediata agli orizzonti europei. Collegamenti aerei efficienti e accessibili a tutti hanno per la Sardegna un’importanza strategica elevata nel quadro dello sviluppo sociale ed economico della Regione. A ciò si aggiunga il fatto che i Sardi hanno una propensione a utilizzare l’aereo doppia rispetto alla media nazionale, un dato di per sé significativo di elevato dinamismo che contrasta lo stereotipo di un isolamento, da molti decenni ormai privo di referente reale.
    [Show full text]
  • South Atlantic Airmail in World War II and Pan American Airways’ Role
    South Atlantic Airmail in World War II and Pan American Airways’ Role Sponsored by The Collectors Club via Gordon Eubanks Boeing 314 Clipper 5 May 2021 • There has been and continues to be significant research in this area. • Special thanks to the great philatelists and researchers who have contributed to this area: Ken Lawrence, John Wilson, David Crotty, Frank Walton and many many others. • I will provide an overview of the major components and issues … • North Atlantic and Pacific come up • …. and show some nice covers. Note: A few covers will be framed in Red because they are special – at least to me ☺ From 1937 PAA Was Flying the Pacific Two short-lived rates to Africa • Lindberg’s Atlantic flight 20 May 1927 • In late 30’s PAA flying the Pacific E-W and South America N-S 14 Feb 1941 Youngstown OH to Bloemfontein South Africa. Stamps pay 95¢ 1/2 oz rate effective under 1 year: 6 August 1940 through 17 July 1941. 19 November 1941 censored air mail letter from Baltimore MD to Cape Town South Africa. Stamps pay the $1.10 airmail rate via Hong Kong or Singapore and Cairo. Rate effective less than 6 months: 18 July 1941 through 1 Dec. Censored in South Africa. Pan American Airlines & Trans-Atlantic Travel • By 1939 PAA was flying North Atlantic • 3 Sept 1939 war comes to Europe • UK starts censoring mail in Bermuda • June 1940 Italy enters the war closing the Mediterranean 1 May 1940 New York to Elisabethville Belgian Congo. On a PAA B-314 FAM 18 trip 119 from New York to Lisbon via Horta and then onward to Marseilles by European carrier.
    [Show full text]
  • Avion Tourism International Magazine Speciale
    airport magazine iSSUe 66 2018 Special edition for Milan Berga M o a i r p o r t croazia croatia Grecia Greece Giappone Japan Spalato Split, Dubrovnik Kos, Karpathos Tokyo l primo numero del 2018 di Avion Tourism Airport Magazine presenta importanti novi- tà, un nuovo formato, una nuova veste grafica e una nuova distribuzione. Potete trovare l’edizione cartacea della rivista nelle Vip Lounge, nella Sala Amica e nella Sala Mure Venete dell’Aeroporto di Milano Bergamo. Per trascorrere piacevolmente il tempo in attesa del volo ed informarvi sulle destinazioni servite dallo scalo, con le novità dei voli offerti dalle compagnie aeree e notizie utili per il viaggio, è possibile scaricare l’edizione digitale della rivista su ogni dispositivo (computer, tablet, cellulare) o accedendo al sito internet dell’aeroporto e di Avion Tourism, o tramite un QR Code presente in diversi punti dell’aerostazione. In questo numero v’invitia- mo a visitare due città della Croazia, Spalato e Dubrovnik, nuove destinazioni dell’Aeroporto di Milano Bergamo che vi stupiranno per la loro bellezza, non solo per il mare strabiliante ma anche per l’antica storia che riaffiora in monumenti Patrimonio dell’Umanità. In vista della bella stagione il Mediterraneo con le sue isole è una meta facilmente accessibile con poche ore di volo. Vi suggeriamo di esplorare l’Isola di Kos e l’Isola di Karpathos in Grecia ma anche Pafos sull’Isola di Cipro. Ideali per trascorrere una vacanza in un mare cristallino e con splendide spiagge, ma anche per immergersi in tesori artistici dal fascino antico.
    [Show full text]