Blog # 1620--- Day 862 of the Current ( Second ) Russian Invasion of Ukraine
GLORY TO UKRAINE
Hey there, how are things going today. I`m back with a few more cards to show . I want to start with a couple of cards from my home province of Newfoundland and Labrador, These are the latest additions to my Postcards with Postmarks of Newfoundland and Labrador Towns Collection.
First up is this card showing The Cable Station Museum in Heart`s Content, a town in Trinity Bay on the Bay de Verde Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador, The population on a good day is around 350 people. Heart's Content was given its place in the history of international communications by Cyrus West Field who chose it as the terminus of his Transatlantic telegraph cable, leading to establishment of the Heart`s Content Cable Station. On July 24, 1877 a transatlantic cable was landed at Heart`s Content by the SS Great Eastern. This little Newfoundland town leaped into the history books and remained a global communications hub for over a century. And the station is now a museum.
There is a great Heart cancelation on the Total Solar Eclipse stamp that was issued in March of this year.
So Heart`s Content is number 47 of my Newfoundland Towns collection. Now if I could only get Heart`s Delight, Heart`s Desire and Little Heart`s Ease. Lots of Hearts to come from Newfoundland.
My second Newfoundland town for today is Gander. Gander is a town located in the northeastern part of the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Gander was built around its airport . The airport was started in 1935 , with an air force base started in 1936. The airport saw its first landing in January of 1938. During the second world war fighter planes and bombers in the thousands stopped enroute to Europe. After the war, Gander ( YQX) became a major refuelling stop and earned its name `Cross-roads of the World `.
When the U.S. closed its airspace after the September 11 attacks , Gander International Airport took in 38 commercial aircraft and four military aircraft, and accommodated nearly 6,700 evacuees from Olympic Airways, Air France, Lufthansa, British Airways, Alitalia and more. Many of those aircraft are pictured on my first Gander card.
Most of the streets in Gander are named after famous aviators, including Alcock and Brown, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, Marc Garneau and Chuck Yeager.
That`s a Gander in the top right corner by the way.
The Gander RPO staff cancelled this card and with a round Canada Post Gander circular postmark. The stamp is an endangered Frog from the April 2024 issue.
Thus Gander is town number 48 of my Newfoundland Towns collection.
I have one other Gander card to show here. It`s a great picture of Concorde F-WTSA in British Airways livery on the ramp in Gander . This Concorde had its maiden flight on January 10, 1973. On June 17th, 1974 F-WTSA took off from Boston’s Logan Airport at the same time as an Air France 747 took off from Paris. The Concorde flew to Paris, spent over an hour on the ground and got back to Boston before the 747 arrived.
Here are some numbers for F-WTSA :
Hours Flown - 657
Total Flights - 314
Landings – 314
Supersonic Flights – 189
Total Supersonic hours - 280 hrs 49mins
F-WTSA was the fourth Concorde aircraft to be manufactured and her final flight was between Toulouse and Paris Orly was on May 20th1976. This Concorde has now been preserved and is on display at Musee Delta, Orly Airport, Paris.
Morgan used a 2024 Canada Post Community Foundation stamp on this card.
This next card arrived from France and shows the Cathedral of Marseille , a Roman Catholic cathedral and a national monument in the city. The cathedral open in November 1893 and is 146 m long, the main dome is 70 m high and 18m in diameter.
Dominique used a stamp from 1963 on this card. It shows an Archimede Class Submarine.
It`s time now for the last card for today. It arrived from Uzbekistan and just happened to be an aircraft airline card. Here we see an Uzbekistan Airways Tu154-B2, registered as UK 85600 , on the ramp at Tashkent in May of 1994.UK 85600 first saw service with Aeroflot Soviet Airlines back in 1984. Then in 1989 it flew with Abakan-Avia , Ariana Afghan Airlines in 1989, and finally Uzbekistan Airlines from 1992 to 1994. Then it was stored and finally scrapped in 2015.
Jean Pierre and Rafal sent this card and used 2 stamps. On the left is a stamp from a souvenir sheet of 4 issued 2022, even though dated 2021. .The sheet showcased History items. The right stamp , from 2020, showed Bukhara, Cultural Capital of the Islamic world.
As I mentioned earlier , that`s all for today. Thanks for cards go out to Dominique, Heart`s Content Post Office, Gander Post Office, and Jean Pierre & Rafal.
My next update will profile Islands. . So if you have any interest in Islands, drop by and see if your favourite island is mentioned.
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