Blog # 1659 --- Day 1265 ( That's One Thousand Two Hundred and Sixty Five Days ) Since the Start of the Current ( Second ) Russian Invasion of UKRAINE .
GLORY TO UKRAINE
Hello again folks. It`s been a little more than 2 weeks since my last update. It`s been quite busy around these parts , hard to find the time to blog. But cards keep arriving so I have lots of material for blogging on hand . So here we go .
How`s this for a start a Christmas themed card. After all it is August already. I wonder am I early or late. The card is dated 17-12-24, so I guess I`m quite late. Is that a Charlie Brown Christmas tree , I think it might qualify.
Barbara used 2 Christmas stamps from 2024. They are from a set of 10 and each has a tiny robin in the design -- a sign of Hope.
Next is an aircraft card from Gibraltar. It shows a Hispania Lineas Aereas Boeing 757 , registered as EC-EMU . It only flew with this airline a short time, from April 1989 to July 1989. From then to 2008 it saw service with Air 2000, Ansett Airlines and Fly Jet. Since 2008 it has been a workhorse for Federal Express.
Bruce sent this card and he used a single Gibraltar stamp. It is from a set of 10 Coat of Arms definitives issued in 2020.
Here is a card showing the nuclear power plant in Cattenon, France. The card reads `it`s not science fiction, it`s just science. Construction of the plant took place between 1979 and 1991 with some commercial operation starting in 1987.
Dominique used a a really attractive stamp from 1969. It celebrated D-Day June 6, 1944. As a long time stamp collector I know there are nice stamps, attractive stamps, not so nice stamps , junk stamps and those I wouldn`t even have in my collection. I am happy to say this is a very collectable stamp at least for me. I like the vertical shape and I like the color. Here it is .
Well here`s another aircraft card. This time it`s GB Airways Vickers Viscount G-BBVH in a March 1985 picture at Gibraltar. GB Airways was a British airline headquartered in `The Beehive `at London Gatwick Airport. It operated from January 1989 until March 2008.
Aircraft G-BBVH also saw service with New Zealand National Airways from 1958 - 1973 and British European Airways in 1973. On 23 November 1988, Vickers Viscount G-BBVH was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident at Boukhalef Airport in Tangier. No injuries were sustained by the 74 passengers and 4 crew members. The aircraft had flown 40,632 hours.
Jean Pierre used 2011 Europa Year of the Forests stamp.
Well that is 4 cards and my limit for this update. Thanks for today`s cards go out to Barbara, Bruce, Jean Pierre , and Dominique. Come back soon.
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