Airlines and Airplanes

BLOG # 1508 In The Time Of Covid

Hey there again. I have four cards for this time and they are all Airline & Aircraft themed, not that there is anything wrong with that. I know, they may not be every ones cup of tea but hey, you got to have an open mind. I may not always get excited about the cards I receive but I appreciate each and everyone of them. In my humble opinion  there is no bad card. 

So here we go with the first card. It arrived from France and is an AirFrance card. It says on the card - France is in the Air. That may be true but surely not as much as France or AirFrance would like.  It can not come fast enough ! There is no plane on this card but it there is a red dress and it must be difficult finding your way through a maze with that tail. 

Jean Pierre used a 2021 Year of the Ox stamp. There were 4 issued for this Lunar New Year. 

My next card arrived from Santa Barbara, California, but is in fact a card from the Strategic Air Command Museum in Bellevue, Nebraska. Shown in the center of the card is a Convair B-58A Hustler. It was delivered to the SAC Museum from the 305th Bombardment Wing at Bunker Hill AFB ( later Grissom AFB ) on December 29, 1969. This delta winged supersonic strategic bomber was the first bomber capable of Mach 2 flight. The B-58 was developed during the 1950s and entered service in March 1960. A total of 116 were built. The B-58A pictured made a world record flight of 8,028 miles from Tokyo to London in 8 hours 35 minutes on October 16, 1963.

 

Michelle used 3 stamps on her card. The Pear stamp was issued in 2017. The T Rex stamp is one of four Dinosaurs stamps issued in 2019. The Moon stamp was also issued in 2019, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon.

Vanilla Air . That's certainly a new addition to my Airlines Postcard Collection. Vanilla Air was a low-cost airline in Japan wholly owned by All Nippon Airways. The airline operated from Dec 2013 to Oct 2019 when it merged with Peach Aviation. The Airbus A320 shown is 7.4 years old. It flew for Vanilla for the life of the airline and now sees service with All Nippon Airways. 

 

Jean Pierre used a recent stamp from Jan of this year. It Commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Madeleine Bres, or as I like to say, the 179th Anniversary of the Birth of Medical Doctor Madeleine Bres, the first French woman to obtain a medical degree in France in 1875. 

 

It's time now for the final card for today. It's from Switzerland and shows an old time aircraft boarding at Swissair. The card says it's 1953 so no loading bridges back then. Swissair was the national airline of Switzerland from its founding in 1931 to its bankruptcy in 2002. 

Jean Pierre used 2 stamps on this card , both of which were issued in 2019. The left stamp celebrates the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Alfred Escher, Swiss Politician and Railways Pioneer. Th
e right stamp is 1 of 2  highlighting the Art of Brewing Beer. 

Here we are at the end of another update. Thanks for todays cards go out to Jean Pierre and Michelle. Hope you enjoyed reading this one, just remember there'll be another soon. 

Covid is still among us so wash your hands , wear a mask and keep your distance. On a personal note I  think I mentioned in a previous blog that I was booked to receive my Covid vaccine on Mar 24th. Well unfortunately that date was cancelled and now I am booked  for April 1st. Hope that doesn't turn out to be an April Fool's joke.