PORTUGAL

PORTUGAL.

50th Anniversary of the First Flight Lisbon - Rio de Janeiro (1922-1972).
Map with the route through the Atlantic Ocean.
Second stamp in a set of 4, issued on 15.11.1972.
Face value: 2.50 Portuguese escudos.
Design: Serviços Artísticos dos PTT.
Printed by Casa da Moeda, Lisboa.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 1186.
- StampWorld No. 1175.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 1490.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 1170.

Gago Coutinho (1869-1959) and Sacadura Cabral (1881-1924) were both Portuguese navigators that managed to perform the first aereal crossing from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, in the South Atlantic. They began the journey on March 30, 1922 in the “Lusitânia” plane, with stopovers in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and São Vicente Island (Cape Verde), and with a second plane, “Pátria”, in Fernando de Naronha island, and with a third plane, “Santa Cruz”, in the Brazilian towns Recife, Salvador de Bahía. Porto Seguro and Vitória. They finally landed in Rio de Janeiro on June 17, after a 79-day journey.