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A Boeing 707 jet airliner in the sky above the little Humber-Sommer biplane of 1911, with the words “First Aerial Post Golden Jubilee 1911-1961”, on a 15 naye paise stamp.
Fifty Years of Air Mail
India Post issued three stamps on 18 February 1961 for the golden jubilee of the first official air mail in the world. On 18 February 1911 the French pilot Henri Pequet flew a Humber-Sommer biplane from the grounds of the United Provinces Exhibition at Allahabad across the Yamuna to Naini, a few miles away, carrying some 6,500 letters and cards stamped with a special postmark of an aeroplane. The 5 naye paise stamp shows that postmark. This 15 naye paise stamp sets the biplane beside a Boeing 707, the jet airliner that Air India had begun flying in 1960, to show how far air travel had come in fifty years.
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