German Airmail and Airlift anniversaries

A postcard from Berlin , Germany 🇩🇪 sent during the AeroBerlin 2019 - April 26-28,2019

The International Stamp exhibition was planned and organised in the Schöneberg ( Berlin ) Town Hall during April 26-28, 2019. Since the hall was undergoing major renovations, the event was organised at the Russian House of Science and Culture. 

The event was organized by the German air postal associations ( AeroBerlin) and was timed to coincide with several anniversary events 

100 years of the first official air mail; 

70 years to the Berlin air bridge;

60 years to the research community of Berlin; 

100 years of Lake Constance airmail; 

100 years of SCADTA; 

50 years of landing on the moon (space mail); 

50 years of "Concord" (Concorde) 

- thematic expositions of which were presented at the exhibition

This postcard has a postmark honouring the 100 years of the first official air mail in Germany! 

I have already received few covers and postcards commomerating this centenary from my good friends Tom and Dustin ! 

http://travellingenvelopes.blogspot.com/2019/05/germany-airmail-centenary.html?m=0

http://travellingenvelopes.blogspot.com/2019/03/100-years-german-republic-and-german.html?m=0

This postcard shows a different postmark from the previous one - showing one of the iconic planes of those times that was used for the transport of Airmails. 

The LVG C.VI was a German two-seat reconnaissance and artillery spotting aircraft used during World War I.

The aircraft was designed by Willy Sabersky-Müssigbrodt and developed by Luft-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (LVG) in 1917. The C.VI was a further development of the C.V, which Sabersky-Müssigbrodt had made for his former employer DFW. It was lighter, smaller and aerodynamically refined, although its fuselage seemed more bulky. It was a biplane of mixed, mostly wooden construction. It featured a semi-monocoque fuselage, plywood covered.

Straight uncovered engine in the fuselage nose, with a chimney-like exhaust pipe. Two-blade Benz wooden propeller, 2.88 m (9.45 ft) diameter. Flat water radiator in central section of upper wing. Fixed conventional landing gear, with a straight common axle and a rear skid. Aircraft were equipped with a radio (morse code only); transmissions were by means of an antenna which could be lowered below the aircraft when needed. The crew had parachutes and heated flying suits. A total of 1,100 aircraft of the type were manufactured.

Today, there are three surviving C.VIs. One is currently being restaured at the RAF Museumin Cosford, one is on display at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Belgium and the third one is at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace in Paris.

Thanks Tom for this beautiful postcard showing the Town Hall of Schöneberg ! All these postcards have been a great learning experience of the way the Airmails developed across the world :)