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A crash cover is a philatelic term for a type of cover (including the terms air accident cover, interrupted flight cover, wreck cover), meaning an envelope or package that has been recovered from an air crash, train wreck, shipwreck or other accident.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 16 relations: Aerophilately, Aircraft, Airmail, American Air Mail Society, Aviation accidents and incidents, Cover (philately), Flying boat, Hindenburg disaster, Mimeograph, National Postal Museum, Philately, Postal history, Postal marking, Shipwreck, Stuart Rossiter Trust, Train wreck.

  2. Disasters

Aerophilately

Aerophilately is the branch of philately that specializes in the study of airmail. Crash cover and Aerophilately are philatelic terminology.

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Aircraft

An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.

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Airmail

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.

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American Air Mail Society

The American Air Mail Society (AAMS) is a U.S. nonprofit organization devoted to the collecting and study of airmail and aerophilately.

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Aviation accidents and incidents

An aviation accident is an event during aircraft operation that causes serious injury, death, or destruction.

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Cover (philately)

In philately, the term cover pertains to the outside of an envelope or package with an address, typically with postage stamps that have been cancelled and is a term generally used among stamp and postal history collectors. Crash cover and cover (philately) are philatelic terminology.

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Flying boat

A flying boat is a type of fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water.

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Hindenburg disaster

The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, U.S. The LZ 129 ''Hindenburg'' (Luftschiff Zeppelin #129; Registration: D-LZ 129) was a German commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the ''Hindenburg'' class, the longest class of flying machine and the largest airship by envelope volume.

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Mimeograph

A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine) was a low-cost duplicating machine that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.

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National Postal Museum

The National Postal Museum, located opposite Washington Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States, covers large portions of the postal history of the United States and other countries.

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Philately

Philately is the study of postage stamps and postal history.

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Postal history

Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of the use of postage stamps and covers and associated postal artifacts illustrating historical episodes in the development of postal systems. Crash cover and postal history are philatelic terminology.

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Postal marking

A postal marking is any kind of annotation applied to a letter by a postal service. Crash cover and postal marking are philatelic terminology.

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Shipwreck

A shipwreck is the wreckage of a ship that is located either beached on land or sunken to the bottom of a body of water.

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Stuart Rossiter Trust

The Stuart Rossiter Trust is a British charitable trust (registered charity number 292076) that was created by the will of the philatelist and postal historian Stuart Rossiter and subsequently the will of his mother.

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Train wreck

A train accident or train wreck is a type of disaster involving two or more trains.

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See also

Disasters

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_cover

Also known as Wreck cover.