https://facebook/Enzodienasrl One certificate a week 20 - Italian Airmail - POSTAL SPECIAL FLIGHT ROME-10-11.11.34 MOGADISHU - The special flight Rome-Mogadishu, made with a three-engined S71 piloted by Francis Lombardi and Vittorio Suster, was performed on the occasion of the 65th birthday of King Vittorio Emanuele III, on an official visit in Italian Somaliland. It also constitutes a test flight of the Ala Littoria for regular service between Italy and Somalia (which will be opened in November 1935). The route: Rome-Tripoli-Benghazi-Tobruk-Massawa-Bender Cassim and-Mogadishu is the same as Francis Lombardi made during his flight in 1930. The plane takes 34h50 travel (28h30 actual flight) to cover the 5970 km of the route. The Italian post office give a great importance to the event with the issuance on 05:11:34, a series of airmail composed of six values. In later dates, up to 18:01:35, are issued series of ten stamps for each colony: Cyrenaica, Eritrea, Somalia and Tripolitania. Each series colonial only the highest value, the lira 25 + 2, is issued on 05:11:34 and is therefore the only one that can appear on aerograms transported in special flight. On 05:11:34 are also issued five values of Airmail for State Service (philatelic known as crowns) from 10 lire to Italy and lire 25 + 2 for Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Somalia. For the return flight Somalia issues the 11:11:34, a stamp Airmail Service by overprinting 11.Nov.1934 XIII / Air Service / Special an airmail stamp from cent.25 commemorative exhibition d colonial art held in Naples. The print run, made in a printing of Rome and only verbally authorized by the Minister of the Air, is 500 units in sheets of 25; one individual per sheet presents the error overprint 1943 instead of 1934. Subsequently, in order to fulfill the demands of philatelists, will run a second print run of more than 500 units in addition to maintaining the above error adds another, inverted overprint: speculations and various irregularities padroneggiarono philatelically this flight and in particular Somali issue. The return flight, initially scheduled for 11:11:34 ie the same day arrival, it happened instead 13:11:34: the two pilots begin, with the same plane, take off operations but an accident and damage the hearing the flight will never be accomplished. All stamped envelopes with special air mail stamps or ordinary, Somalia and other colonies, although bearing special cancellations and special stamp, have not made any flight since the courier is entrusted to the post office to board the ship R. Gorizia you apply ordinary postmark date with 11:11:34, only one available. They will reach Rome for the ordinary ways 1:12:34. Mutatis mutandis, the letter in question, sent from Mogadishu and live in Rome, duly stamped with a couple of the aforementioned cent.25 in compliance with the required surcharge for the return flight, receives the cancellation of the Royal Ship Gorizia the 11:11:34 and Port Said, Egypt, adds the postage for the recommendation and forwarding plane; from there goes to Alexandria and then Brindisi to finally arrive in Rome.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:50:24 +0000
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