Common mint stamps retail for about twice face if. The minimum retail price for single stamps varies with the dealer but is around 15 to 25 cents. He made the first flight with a lady passenger between London and Paris. Air mail stamps can be used for regular postage. He won fame by being the first airman to fly the 1911 Coronation Aerial Post from Hen don to Windsor. He rapidly reached the front rank and it was only through illness that be failed to win the Daily Mail £10,000 prize for a circuit of Great Britain. and for some countries, the package may arrive faster than the ordinary airmail. He was educated at Westminister School and learnt to fly at Bleriot's School, Pau, France, taking his pilot's ticket on the 3rd of February 1911. Post registered airmail with a tracking Number for delivery - Safer. He was of Scandinavian descent, his father being Dr Gustav Hamel, M.V.O. Gustav Hamel, one of the most famous pioneer pilots, was born on the 25th of June 1889. Journal of the Malta Philatelic Society, 43(1), 27-30. Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. First regular airmail on 9th September 1911. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:įirst regular airmail on 9th September 1911Īir mail service - Great Britain - History - 20th centuryīonnici, A.