The search goes on - This was the subtitle of Arthur Falk’s compendium on LZ-129 Hindenburg crash mail from the 6 May 1937 airship crash at Lakehurst, NJ. And indeed, the search still goes on and while various articles on this subject have been published since, the Arthur Falk book is still the only philatelic book on Hindenburg crash mail.
But this will change next year: On occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Hindenburg crash at Lakehurst, NJ, a new philatelic book on this crash is due. At this point, I do not want to reveal too many details, but all I can say is that this book will be a quite heavy handbook with a couple hundred pages focussing on the postal history of the crash and of course on crash mail. [READ MORE]
 

In March this year I participated in a stamp auction in Germany and was bidding on some airmail covers which interested me. Among these covers I noticed an official LZ-127 GRAF ZEPPELIN postcard flown on the 1933 Rome Flight. The card has a German address and is franked with the 5 Lira zeppelin stamp from Italy. I briefly want to recall that the additional fee for the 1933 Rome Flight of airship LZ-127 was Lira 3 for postcards sent to Europe and Lira 5 for covers sent to Europe. When I received my purchase from the auctioneer I was surprised to find on the reverse of the postcard various signatures. [READ MORE]
 
 
 

On 10 April 1911, airship LZ-8 Deutschland was scheduled to be transfered from Baden-Oos to Düsseldorf. Under the command of Dr. Eckener, the airship departed Baden-Oos at 11 a.m. to fly in northern direction towards Düsseldorf. At 11.20 a.m. the airship passed Karlsruhe and reached Heidelberg at 12.25 p.m. The flight continued via Darmstadt and at 1.36 p.m. the airship landed at Frankfurt. At 2.56 p.m. the transfer flight was resumed in northern direction but after only 17 kilometers the airship returned over Bad Homburg to fly via Offenbach back to Frankfurt to land there at 4.15 p.m. [READ MORE]
 
 
 

A cover with two flight cachets raises the question if this is just a double strike or if there is a story behind it. The illustrated San Marino card bears two Italian flight cachets, one in green and one in blue. And there are two Rome zeppelin machine markings on the reverse with different dates, one showing 29.5.33 17-18 and the second one 30.5.33 23-24. So this can not be a simple double strike, there must be a story behind all of these double markings. [READ MORE]
 
 
 

The illustrated cover was dispatched on 30 April 1936 from Hamburg and was intended for airmail service to New York. In early 1936 the only Trans-Atlantic airmail service was by zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg whose first flight was due to depart from Friedrichshafen the following week on 6 May 1936. The cover was correctly franked for a 5-10 gram zeppelin cover: 25 Pfg international letter rate + 2 x 50 Pfg zeppelin surcharge (50 Pfg/5 gram). [READ MORE]
 
 
 

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]
 
 
 

From Asterix to Zeppelin, from Mary to Dorothy, from Greece to Iceland, from Orly to Le Bourget, from Josef to Magda and from Columbia back to Austria: Enjoy the Summer 2011 issue! [READ MORE]

The jubilee issue, it is the 100th issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL. And 100 is the topic of this issue with Count Zeppelin's 100th birthday, LZ-100, flight number 100, 100 dropped pieces, registration number 100, R100 and 100 years Bordstempel.. [READ MORE]

Why the zeppelin was making a detour because of Spelterini, why LZ-127 GRAF ZEPPELIN flew over Canada and why the NT BODENSEE is back from Japan. This issue links also zeppelins with the Aegean Islands and the Falkland Islands. And we have found a new zeppelin cachet. [READ MORE]

Arbed, Alix, Alrun and Aladin, but also Canada, Köhler, catapult and Ciampino: just to name a few key words of the Fall2010 issue which contains also paintings and lyrics. [READ MORE]

In addition to Maybach cars, Euro and US$ exchange rates and helicopters in the Antarctic, the Summer2010 issue of the ZEPPELIN POST JOURNAL deals also with World War I zeppelin mail and zeppelin mail from Paraguay, the Bahamas and Canada. [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]