Moon projectile

Stamp illustrating Jules Verne's story 'Flight to the moon'. The manned projectile is shown with a trail of fire and smoke behind it, as if it were rocket-propelled. In Verne's book however, it was fired from a cannon, and not self-propelled.

Strange sky meeting

Yes, the Concorde is a supersonic plane ! But crossing a satellite in the atmosphere is still out of range !

Smoking rocket

A rocket in space, outside the atmosphere, does not leave a trail of smoke behind !

Identical registration numbers !

Often considered as an error : two planes with identical registration numbers DM-WKM. But take a closer look at the upside-down plane : its registration number is slightly different : DM-WKN !

Arrested engines !

A plane flying high in the sky with arrested engines !

Missing tail

You do not need to be a specialist to understand that a plane cannot fly correctly without a tail !

Forgotten escaper tower

The escape tower is still attached to the Mercury capsule, while it is flying around the earth.

Smokefree zeppelin !

Windows in the gas reservoir of a zeppelin ? I do hope they have told the passengers to wear their gasmasks, and not to smoke !

Inverted cross

Inverted German cross on the tail of this plane

Landing on the Moon

Stamp showing the Luna 9 circling around the Moon, with panels outspread as it would be landing shortly

Upside down

The green earth lies on top, this plane is flying upside down… Not a common view for a stamp, as the only place where you can see such a view, is from another plane, also flying upside down !

Strange plane

To avoid advertising any particular type of plane, this stamp shows a composite type which not only never existed but would never have flown.

Why planes ?

There were no planes in the sky during the parade organized to celebrate the liberation of Paris.

Missing propeller

No appearance of propellers on the right engine of this plane

Arrested engines !

A plane flying high in the sky with arrested engines !

Inversion or not ?

Seems an inverted Nazi-cross, but ...the blus swastika is a symbol a goor fortune in Finland, going back to 1918.

Wrong registration marks.

Series of stamps showing a plane flying over various Belgian cities. However this plane does not bore the Belgian marks (OO) but the Italian registration marks (I).

Unrealistic rocket

Unrealistic rocket …. Or unrealistic plane ?

Strange Concorde

Wrong representation of the Concorde : where is the broken nose, wings and tail are too large, strange square engines …

Big shadow

As the sun is far away, the shadow of a plane on earth can never be larger than the plane itself.

Unsafe plane

The upper wing of this airplane has no connection with the fuselage, and the propeller is at an impossible angle

Blocked propeller

Plane high in the sky with immobile propeller

Wrong time

This spatial vessel landed on the moon exactly at 22h02min24sec. The DDR stamp is correct, the stamp from Hungary missed the landing by 10 seconds

Wrong name

This stamp depicts the TRANSIT 2A satellite, but labelled it as the SAN MARCO-satellite.

Wrong language

If a name was written outside this russian vessel, it ought to have been in Cyrylllian letters, not in the Latin alphabet.

Wrong side.

As shown by the picture, the LZ-HINDENBURG touched the ground with his rear before being destroyed.

Large shadow.

As the sun is far away, the sunbeams are almost parallel, thus the shadow of a plane on earth can never be larger than the plane itself.

Large shadow.

As the sun is far away, the sunbeams are almost parallel, thus the shadow of a plane on earth can never be larger than the plane itself.

Wrong spacecraft.

Stamp featuring Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, with an American Mercury spacecraft, instead of a Russian Vostok I.

Big plane !

As the sun is far away, the sunbeams are almost parallel, thus the shadow of a plane on earth can never be larger than the plane itself.

Big shadow

As the sun is far away from the earth, the sunbeams are almost parallel. Thus the shadow of a plane on earth cannot be taller than the plane itself.

Wrong registration number.

The registration number of this aircraft is not a real number, but he name of a pilot, CRAIU, who died some years before.

Open doors.

Spacewalk with open doors !

Wrong representation

The plane of A. Dumont did not have a tail wheel.

Without engines

This Boeing 767 was depicted without engines

Impossible meeting

The stamp shows the Russian spacecrafts Vostok 2 and 3 flying together, however on August 12-15 1962 only the Vostok 3 and 4 were in space.

Inverted logotype

The logotype on the plane tail is reversed.

Wrong immatriculation

The identification of the Junkers F13 that belonged to the Lutherian Mission Finschafen was VH-UTS. The VH-UTM was a GAL ST-12 Monospar that disappeared above Queensland on 16.2.1942

Wrong date

The GRAF-ZEPPELIN LZ-127 was built in 1927, not in 1924

Wrong rocket

This is not a Gemeni 4 rocket, but an Atlas one.

Wrong type

The first dog was sent in space in a Spoutnik II spacecraft, the stamps however features a Spoutnik III. See Russian stamp with the 3 types of Spoutnik.

Wrong date

Lunik III was launched on 4.10.1959, not on 4.11.1959 as shown on the stamp

Wrong plane

10th anniversary of the flight over the South pole by Argentina. This was done by Douglas DC3 planes, not by the featured bombers.

Modernisation

The British registration letters G-AUSU in 1928 were substituted with the Australian VH-USU letters of 1958. And in 1928, this plane had only two-bladed propellers, not three as shown here.

Wrong colour

The inscription on this Zeppelin was in black colour, not in red.

No atmosphere

There is no atmosphere neither oxygen around the moon, it is impossible that flames will leave the engine.

Wrong plane

The Austrian airlines never owned DC8 planes, Austrian planes do not have A but CO registration letters, the nose of Austgrian planes do not have three lines.

Too close

This Zeppelin is much too close to the castle. And he cannot fly from left to right, as there is an hill at the left side of the castle.

Quite dangerous

Flying plane with stopped engine

Two errors

Two errors : plane is not an ME-109F but a Fiat-G50, name of the pilot is OIVA, not DIVA.

Strange rocket

The rocket exists only in the imagination of the stamp designer

Wrong spacecraft

Compared to a Russian stamp of 1964 that shows the spacecraft MARS 1, this stamps shows something quite different

Wrong spacecraft

Compared to a Russian stamp of 1964 that shows the spacecraft MARS 1, this stamps shows something quite different

Prototype

This plane is a prototype, that was never built.

Canon or rocket ?

Stamp illustrating Jules Verne's story 'Flight to the moon'. The manned projectile leaves a trail of smoke, as if it were rocket-propelled. In Verne's book however, it was fired by a canon.

Never built

The construction of the Canadian deltaplane 'Avro Arrow' was abandoned some weeks before this stamp was issued.

Strange airplane

This airplane, with a too long fuselage and without propellers, is unable to fly.

Not adapted plane

Major F. Novak was a famous stunt- and figther pilot. It would have been more suitable to represent him with a Spitfire or a Hurricane, instead of a Westland-Lysander aircraft, a slow reconnaissance plane..

Wrong plane

The first arial UK mail was carried by a Bleriot. But the stamps shows a Farman biplane in the air, and a Bleriot monoplane on the ground.

Strange rockets

The rockets exist only in the imagination of the stamp designer

Little mistake

50th anniversary of airmail : by mistake the personal plane of Hitler was pictured on this stamp.

Not accurate

On the special cancellation, the American Mustang P51 has both insignia on the upper side of the wings, instead of one on the upper left and one on the lower right.

Small difference

The photo shows a walking bridge running all the way under the ship, on the stamp it is divided in several sections.

No balloon

In the book of Jules Verne Around the world in 80 days, there is no mention of any balloon.

Wrong name

This is not the SZONDA 3 but the LUNIK 3 : the Russian stamp shows the same engine with the correct name.

Wrong year

The space trip of C.Conrad and R. Gordon took place between 12 and 15 December 1966, not in 1965

.No connexion

25th anniversary of Lufthansa : but neither the ME109, the TU144 nor the Concorde are connected to the Lufthansa.

Wrong Zeppelin

The zeppelin which flew over Berlin in 1936 was not the portrayed Graf Zeppelin with five engines, but the Hindenburg, with four engines and with special markings for this flight.

Little detail

At the air rally of 1914, this Farman owned by Renaux was equipped with skis to be able to land on water.

Too big

The shadow of a plane on earth cannot be bigger than the plane itself.

Too big

The shadow of this plane is much too big, cannot be larger than the plane itself.

Wrong date

The first flight of the Concorde took place on March 2nd 1969, not on May 2nd 1969.

Missing pontoon

This sea-plane will have difficulties to land with only one pontoon.

Not the first

The FR-1 satellite is wrongly labelled as the first French Satellite, for the A1 had been launched 10 days before.

Wrong date

Stamp issued in 1923 for the inauguration of the Postal Air Services. The lanch was however postponed until the following year. Meanwhile there had been a change in currency : the surcharge conviently covered most of the wrong date.

Wrong antennas

The antennas of the Sputnik I on the stamp have less in common with the antennas on the real Sputnik I.

Non existing planes

To not advertise any kind of plane, the stamp shows a non existing mixture of different planes.

Non existent stamp

To not advertise any kind of plane, the stamp shows a non existing mixture of different planes.

Sill connected

The space capsule is in orbit around the earth with the escape device, that is disconnected just before launch, still attached.

Sill connected

The space capsule is in orbit around the earth with the escape device, that is disconnected just before launch, still attached.

Two errors

The space walk of Leonov did not happen above Italy, and the doors of the vessel, of course, do not remain open.

Still connected

When the two vessels met, they were in orbit around the earth, and not connected anymore to the last stage of the launching rocket.

Wrong plane

A Farman biplane is shown on a stamp commemorating the first U.K. air mail flight. This first flight however, was made by Gustav Hamel in a Bleriot.

Wrong plane

This is not the Imperial Airways Flying Boat from 1937, but the Maia, a later adaption with special superstructure on its wings, and not delivered until June 1938. (

Flying problems

This angels with only one wing will not fly easily, and the plane without rudders will not fly at all.

No atmosphère

The use of parachutes on the moon where there is no atmosphere ? Not quite a good idea.

Missing letter

Wrong : HAVILAND - Correct : HAVILLAND.

Strange vessel

This spacial vessel, with a combustion engine, makes an impossible turn in space.

Error in name

The exact name of this helicopter is Vought-Sikorsky VH-300, the stamp mistakenly gives it the name Vogt.

Not the first

Labeling the flights of the Wright Brothers the 'first powered flights' is not quite correct, as a lot of people before them experimented with flying engines.

Additional letter

Deperdussin is spelled with 2 'p'.

Too big shadow

The plane's shadow has almost the same size as the country.

Stopped engine

The engine seems to be switched off, while the helicopter is flying.

Wrong year

This plane was not built in 1904, but in 1908 : it is a Wright A 1908.

Not quite correct

This is not a rocket, but a rocket-plane with a cockpit.

Fired from a cannon

In Jules Verne's book, the rocket that brought men to the moon was fired from a cannon and was not self propelled.

Wrong method

Landing with a parachute on Jupiter, where there is no atmosphere ?

Wrong orbit

The orbit of Lunik III is represented quite incorrectly.

Wrong orbit

The orbit of Lunik III is represented quite incorrectly.

Space conquest

A space vessel flying in the sky ? In any case not on planet earth !

Crossing

This plane seems to have been built with Concorde wings fixed on a rocket.

Forgotten crew

Saturnus rocket is leaving for the Moon without the space capsule.

Imminent aircrash

A plane is landing while another one is still occupying the landingsstrip.

Wrong year

Amundsen passed Sint Petersburg in the Norge on his way to the North pole in 1926, not in 1923.

Wrong year

The visit of the Graf Zeppelin to Russia occured in 1930, not in 1928.

Rocket or plane ?

A rocket with windows for passengers ?

Rocket or plane ?

A rocket with windows for passengers ?

Not a rocket

According to Jules Verne's book, the moon vessel was launched by a giant canon.

Unrealistic

Unrealistic : the top of the rocket is used as space residence, and is fixed with roops in prevision of bad weather !

A dream ?

Four Concordes together in the sky in 2012, really unrealistic !

Magic plane

Flying plane with stopped engine

Missing floats

Due to missing floats, this plane is not able to land on the sea.

Missing tail

The tail of this plane is missing

Strange illustration

As the Apollo 13 mission was aborted and never reached the moon, it is strange to illustrate this stamp with lunar rover.

Wrong crew

Why show the crew of Apollo 11 on a stamp dedicated to commemorate the safe return on earth of Apollo 13 ?

Missing engines

Planes without engines

Addditional engine

The Zeppelin which passed over Berlin in 1936 had only four engines, not five.

Wrong year

The first flight of Gagarine took place on April 12th 1961, not in 1960.

Additional letter

This plane is a Dornier-Wal, not a Dournier-Wall.

Not the right one

This is not the first balloon that was used for the first flight in 1783, but one that was built some years later.

Wrong destination ?

The Earth is much too close to Mars, and without atmosphere, combustion engines cannot be used.

Missing oxygen

Without atmosphere, no combustion engines can be used.

Flying engine

Plane without fuselage

Missing engine

The second engine should have been visible under the right wing.

Missing engines

Seaplane without engines.

Mooncycling

Cycling competition on the moon, why not ?

Missing letter

Wrong : Concord - Correct : Concorde

Wrong shape, wrong target

Wrong shape of a V2-rocket. Furthermore, they were not directed to Berlin

Wrong planet

The Surveyor was not launched to Mars, but to the Moon

No ignition

At the launch, the engines of the shuttle are not ignited.

No tail wheels

The Spirit of St Louis was not equipped with two tail wheels

Only once

Gagarin's flight took him only once around the earth. The stamp shows additional rotations

Magic hat

How can this hat remain on the head of the pilot, without being blown away by the wind

Forgotten on the moon?

The engines of the were switched on only during the way back to earth, not while men were still on the moon.

Switched off

The engines of the shuttle are not switched on at the launch

Wrong anniverary

20th anniversary in 1988, however the first landing on the moon took place in 1969

Incomplete

Incomplete CP instead of CCCP

Missing tail

Airplane without tailpiece

Not motorized

This is not a motorized airplane

Missing wing

Airplane with missing wing

Missing propellers

Airplane without propellers

One too much!

Two vessels at the same time in a trip to the moon?

Missing wings

Missing right wings

Too big

The size of the footprint is out of proportion.

Exagerated

A Zeppelin was bag, but this is a littelbit exagerated!

Oar on the moon

Astronauts holding an oar, probably looking for water?