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Henri Pequet in his flying helmet, with his signature, his biplane and a newspaper headline on the “first air mail in the world”.
A Hundred Years of Airmail
India Post issued four ₹5 stamps and a ₹20 miniature sheet on 12 February 2011, the opening day of Indipex 2011, the world philatelic exhibition in New Delhi, for a hundred years of airmail. On 18 February 1911 the French pilot Henri Pequet, in India for an air show at the United Provinces Exhibition in Allahabad, flew about 6,500 letters across the Yamuna to Naini, some ten kilometres away, in a Humber-Sommer biplane: the first official airmail flight. The letters were marked “First Aerial Post, U.P. Exhibition Allahabad 1911”. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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