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CompareAustralia Post – Centenary Of Powered Flight – Harry Houdini – Maximum Card.
Released to celebrate 100 years of powered flight in Australia this maximum card has the $2.10 postage stamp featuring Harry Houdini’s remarkable first powered flight in Australia in 1910.
Aviation enthusiasts everywhere should be very keen on acquiring this set in full.
Ausralia Post have done a great job with this series of historic collectible maximum cards.
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In 1909, Houdini became fascinated with aviation. That same year, he purchased a French Voisin biplane for $5000 and hired a full-time mechanic, Antonio Brassac. Houdini painted his name in bold block letters on the Voisin’s side panels and tail. After crashing once, Houdini made his first successful flight on November 26 in Hamburg, Germany. In 1910, Houdini toured Australia. He brought with him his Voisin biplane and achieved the first powered flight over Australia, on March 18 at Diggers Rest, Victoria (near Melton), just north of Melbourne. Colin Defries preceded him, but he crashed the plane on landing. Houdini proudly claimed to reporters that, while the world may forget about him as a magician and escape artist, it would never forget Houdini the pioneer aviator. After his Australia tour, Houdini put the Voisin into storage in England. Although he announced he would use it to fly from city to city during his next Music Hall tour, Houdini never flew again. A celebration commemorating the centenary of Houdini’s first flight was held at Diggers Rest in 2010. The weekend long event included the dedication of a new monument, a Houdini-Centenary air-show, magic performances, and the display of a one-third scale model of Houdini’s Voisin.
(All history taken from Wikipedia for educational purposes only.)
