This commercial cover from Belgium was flown by the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin on the 9th 1933 South America Flight (continued as the Chicago Flight) and is correctly franked at the second weight unit (5 - 10 grams). There are certainly not many commercial zeppelin covers addressed to Lima, Peru.

A second look at the cover shows a purple cachet below the address field: «Recibida por Correo Ordinario», which means that this cover was received at Lima by ordinary surface mail. But why was an airmail cover flown on the Chicago Flight received by surface mail? [READ MORE]
 
 
 

The Vaduz-Lausanne-Flight of LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin on June 10, 1931 is well connected with the zeppelin mail from Liechtenstein which was taken on board at Vaduz, Liechtenstein and dropped later at Lausanne, Switzerland. Liechtenstein issued two zeppelin stamps with face values of 1 and 2 Francs for this flight.

The philatelic documentation about this flight is more or less limited to the Liechtenstein zeppelin mail and their numerous varieties. There is not much information available about the actual zeppelin flight. [READ MORE]
 
 
 

In October 1936, the Chase Bank in Shanghai, China sent an ordinary commercial airmail cover to the Banco Germanico de la America del Sud in Buenos Aires in Argentina. They surely did not know what they were sending from Shanghai to Buenos Aires. For them it was just another commercial bank cover, but for aerophilatelists this became, 72 years later, the only recorded zeppelin cover from China. [READ MORE]
 
 
 

It was the 21st flight of the Siemens-Schuckert airship which was undertaken on May 17, 1911. Not much is known about this flight, and even the airship-postcard flown on that flight does not say much about the flight itself. We only learn that the sender wrote from an airtrip over Berlin. [READ MORE]
 
 
 

At first sight it seems that this Liechtenstein dispatch on the 1936 Olympia Flight to Berlin of airship LZ-129 HINDENBURG is nothing spectacular. The purple-red zeppelin flight cachet is nice and so is the late usage of the red Liechtenstein zeppelin stamp, which was issued earlier that year for the 1st North America Flight. [READ MORE]
 
 
 

Checking out the numbers of flown U.S. dispatches on the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Chicago Flight unveils an interesting point. The specialized catalogues Sieger and Michel list the numbers of flown U.S. covers for all flight legs except Miami-Seville and Miami-Friedrichshafen. Are the numbers lost or were no numbers recorded for Miami dispatches sent by the zeppelin to Seville or Friedrichshafen? [READ MORE]
 
 
 

Neither Sieger nor Michel list Greek Zeppelin mail for the 8th North America Flight of the airship LZ 129 Hindenburg. This is strange, because Greek mail is listed in both catalogues on the preceeding 7th North America Flight and again on the following 9th North America Flight. But not on the 8th North America Flight. Even the experts failed ...[READ MORE]
 
 
 

In an article from «Il Collezionista» (issue 1958/9), Piero Gall explains that mail dispatched from Rome to South America from the 1933 Romfahrt was placed in sealed bags which were not opened in Friedrichshafen. This explains why no German markings are found on Italian mail destined for South America via connection to ...[READ MORE]
 
 
 

September 18, 2003 marked the 6th anniversary of the first Zeppelin NT flight and also the 75th anniversary of the first flight of the airship LZ 127 GRAF ZEPPELIN. Two reasons for the Pestalozzi Kinderdorf charity organisation to fly special NT-Zeppelin mail. It was a sunny and warm day when the Zeppelin NT BODENSEE...[READ MORE]
 
 
 

From 1908 till 1992: The Spring2010 issue of the Zeppelin Post Journal contains a broad range of articles for the zeppelin mail collector. Articles about zeppelin mail from Romania, Hong Kong and from the cruiser Karlsruhe in South America make this again an international issue. [READ MORE]

The last ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL for 2009 is a general issue containing eleven articles from the pioneer period up to 1936 zeppelin mail. Among others, a 1913 zeppelin flight of LZ-11 Viktoria Luise is featured as well as British zeppelin mail from 1936 flown by LZ-129 Hindenburg. [READ MORE]

The international airmail show BEIJING 2009 AEROPEX (November 12-16, 2009; Beijing, China) is the inspiration for this issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL: What do we know about zeppelins and Asia? The answer is a 40-pages and quite unusual issue of the 齐伯林邮刊. [READ MORE]

Atomic propulsion, bombs, rockets, volcanos, a bald Goethe and the Lithuanian national dish - the Summer2009 issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL is not what you expect! [READ MORE]

A special issue because of current events: Large quantities of new produced zeppelin mail forgeries are currently placed for sale on the worldwide market. The quality of the forgeries is very good.... [READ MORE]

The program given by Dieter Leder at the ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP meeting at the New York Collectors Club makes one of the 13 articles of this issue. The other articles cover the entire scope of zeppelin mail. [READ MORE]

The next special issue is due in December and is full of information on the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Chicago Flight from 1933. 40 pages are filled with latest research and background information on the flight to A Century of Progress [READ MORE]

This issue was released at the ZEPPELIN STUDY GROUP meeting at WIPA 2008 stamp show at Vienna, Austria. 13 articles on zeppelin mail and memorabilia fill the 32-pages issue. [READ MORE]

A truly special issue on occation of the 75th anniversary of the LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin Rome Flight from 1933. Fourteen articles fill the 48 pages with fascinating background stories and latest reserach [READ MORE]

From early 1912 pioneer Zeppelin mail addressed to Shanghai, China up to the latest Zeppelin mail of the new generation NT airships: The spring 08 Zeppelin Post Journal covers a wide variety of interesting aspects of Zeppelin ... [READ MORE]