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Catapult foreign air mail

Catapult air mail was a sistem designed to accelerate the correspondence transport. The planes used at the time had not enough autonomy to make direct transatlantic flights, so they were launched from ships at sea.

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3 pf Hindenburg postal stationery card sent from Berlin 1/may/34 to Eureka (SD), USA.
Sent via catapult air mail from the Bremen ship to New York. 7-8/may/34 trip.
Rate: 15 pf for foreign postcard + 50 pf catapult air surtax = 65 pf
504B + 505B MiF