• the first official airmail stamp (pictured) issued for an airmail flight was in May 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps?
• in 1859 John Wise (pictured) made the first airmail delivery in the United States?
• Miss Pittsburgh was the first plane to deliver airmail between Pittsburgh and Cleveland?

Facts on topics related to Airmail

Airmails of the United States

• the first airmail of the United States was a personal letter from George Washington carried on an aerial balloon flight from Philadelphia by Jean Pierre Blanchard?

Airmail stamp

• the first official airmail stamp (pictured) issued for an airmail flight was in May 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps?

Rocket mail

• there have been many attempts to deliver mail by rocket, but none have met with much success?

Astrophilately

• astrophilately is the area of philately connected with human spaceflight?