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An Indian Air Force Chetak helicopter flying among snow-capped peaks, with the INDIA-80 emblem and the words “Air Mail” in Hindi and English, on a 50 paise stamp.
The Air Force Helicopter
India Post issued four stamps on 15 October 1979 on the carriage of mail by air, part of its series of ten for INDIA-80, the international stamp exhibition held at New Delhi in January and February 1980. India Post’s folder recalls that on 18 February 1911 a French pilot, Henri Pequet, flew a bag of 6,500 letters and postcards from Allahabad across the Yamuna to Naini, the first official airmail in the world. The Indian Air Force has carried mail for the forces in peace and war, and its helicopter pilots took it to the remotest posts in the Himalayas.
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