No aircraft are shown or mentioned on this first day cover, yet the dynamic thrill of flight is evident in the pencil-drawing perspective of the tower blocks of Lusaka, Zambia, which South African Airways first reached in September, 1980 and seems to be of the artist's hand that rendered Cape Town and Frankfurt that same year.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
South African Airways: Johannesburg-Lusaka, September 1980
No aircraft are shown or mentioned on this first day cover, yet the dynamic thrill of flight is evident in the pencil-drawing perspective of the tower blocks of Lusaka, Zambia, which South African Airways first reached in September, 1980 and seems to be of the artist's hand that rendered Cape Town and Frankfurt that same year.
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