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AEROPHILATELIE - FLIGHT GRAF ZEPPELIN LZ 127 * Registered mail from Paris to Rio de Janeiro Brazil via FRIEDRICHSHAFEN airship base. Postage French stamps 11F50 with 1F50 Avion surviving Marseille (PA6) and 10F Port de La Rochelle (261) - obl PARIS R. P. AVION May 3, 1933 + transit Friedrichshafen May 6 + commemorative stamp of the flight, large format struck in blue, with the effigy of Count Zeppelin "LUFTSCHIFF GRAP ZEPPELIN 1933 / 1. SUDAMERI KAFAHR" + arrival stamp zeppelin base Rio Tarde Brazil May 10, 1933. * Graf Zeppelin LZ 127: 236 meters long, 30 meters wingspan - 20 passengers - 116 km/h cruising speed. Flew from 1928 to 1937, including 5 years of scheduled passenger and mail flights between Germany and Brazil, starting in 1933. Used at the end of service as a Nazi Party propaganda vehicle. Retired following the Hindenburg disaster.
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AEROPHILATELIE - FLIGHT GRAF ZEPPELIN LZ 127 * Registered mail from Paris to Rio de Janeiro Brazil via FRIEDRICHSHAFEN airship base. Postage French stamps 11F50 with 1F50 Avion surviving Marseille (PA6) and 10F Port de La Rochelle (261) - obl PARIS R. P. AVION May 3, 1933 + transit Friedrichshafen May 6 + commemorative stamp of the flight, large format struck in blue, with the effigy of Count Zeppelin "LUFTSCHIFF GRAP ZEPPELIN 1933 / 1. SUDAMERI KAFAHR" + arrival stamp zeppelin base Rio Tarde Brazil May 10, 1933. * Graf Zeppelin LZ 127: 236 meters long, 30 meters wingspan - 20 passengers - 116 km/h cruising speed. Flew from 1928 to 1937, including 5 years of scheduled passenger and mail flights between Germany and Brazil, starting in 1933. Used at the end of service as a Nazi Party propaganda vehicle. Retired following the Hindenburg disaster.
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