Webinars and ZOOM-meetings
A webinar is a live educational or informational presentation that takes place online. These webinars are recorded and provided to everyone by public channels as YouTube. FISA has the rights for publishing the webinars from the American Air Mail Society (AAMS) an the Air Mail Sociaty of India (AMSI).
Planned CAS-Zoom meetings
INFO
ANNUAL DAY OF AEROPHILATELY - SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1st
Live meeting in Toronto: 11.15am – 4.00pm
The morning sessions will also be on Zoom
This will be a joint meeting of the CANADIAN AEROPHILATELIC SOCIETY and BNAPS Air Mail Study Group at the Vincent Greene Foundation, 10 Summerhill Avenue, which is just a short walk from the Summerhill subway station.
The VGGF library will be open from 10.00 AM before the meeting, and during the afternoon, for anybody who would like to do research.
The morning will be a hybrid meeting, with a zoom link to the live presentations by:
Bob Galway on “Cherry Red Airways - Saskatchewan’s Pioneering Frontier Flight Service”
Marc Castel who will give a walk through the new CAS website.
The morning presentations will be followed by lunch on Yonge Street.
The live meeting will then resume at the VGGF in the afternoon for a display of exhibits including:
Sam Chiu’s "Hong Kong Wartime Airmail September 1939 to December 1941" which won the CAS Award for the Best Airmail Exhibit at the Edmonton Spring National.
Les Selby’s "The Golden Age of the Rigid Airship" from Boston 2026.
exhibits from Dave Bartlet, Chris Hargreaves and Marc Castel that were displayed at ORAPEX 2026
Additional exhibits to view and discuss in the afternoon will be most welcome.
Zoom link for the Day of Aerophilately
Topic: Day of Aerophilately Time: Nov 1, 2026 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81611096890?pwd=eOdJXT6tMaCPb5WHVebeVzQ7hCkXjZ.1
If attending by telephone:
Meeting ID: 816 1109 6890
Passcode: 539372
Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kOzbjCR8b
For more information contact Chris Hargreaves at hargreavescp@sympatico.ca
Marc Castel
A walk through the new CAS website.
6 PM MountainTime / 8 PM Toronto / 1 AM London / 2 AM Paris / 5:30 AM India
Planned AAMS-Zoom meetings
INFO
Hello everyone. This is a ZOOM meeting month.
On Wednesday, November 4 John Bloor will make a presentation on Western Canada's SOAs.
Following is the invitation:
November AAMS ZOOM Meeting November 4, 2026 06:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Join and take notes https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85775795045?pwd=0kEtL3acCjo1yfRXKM4f415l8x7E8A.1&mynotes=on
Meeting chat link https://us02web.zoom.us/launch/jc/85775795045
Meeting ID: 857 7579 5045 Passcode: 546753
Join instructions https://us02web.zoom.us/meetings/85775795045/invitations?signature=_80sAtqSGInFmPQXQfkYWFTfiUDv2Ei2XLOD-4Z0iuw
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6 PM MountainTime / 8 PM Toronto / 1 AM London / 2 AM Paris / 5:30 AM India
Planned AMSI-Zoom meetings
New York - 9:30 AM London - 2:30 PM Paris - 3:30 PM India - 7:00 PM
Webinars on Exhibitions
Glenn Stafford
Aerophilately New Guidelines
- Exhibiting & Judging
Glenn Stafford
Jury Perspective
David S. Ball
Peparing an Effective Synopsis
Webinars on Aerophilately and Astrophilately
The Air Mail Society of India provides the following webinars for you on their YouTube Channel.
| AS | The Rocket Mails of India - Part 1 & 2 | Markand Dave, FRPSL | 76 |
| AE | Imperial Airways Ltd. - 1931 England-Australia | Ed Wolf | 75 |
| AE | 24 October 1930 : Jodhpur to London cover | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 73 |
| AE | Valiant Veterans : Bravehearts from Indian Armed Forces | Varun Khanna | 72 |
| AE | Understanding Combi-Mail Aeropostal History | Julian Van Beveren | 71 |
| AE | Indian Armed Forces through Army Postal Service | Col. Raman Thapar | 69 |
| AE | The Rise of the Flying Boats | Susan Burn, FRPSL | 68 |
| AE | The Pigeon Mails of India | Sanjay Prabhakar Jagtap | 66 |
| AE | Postal Stationary Airgraphs of India | Wayne Menuz, FRPSL | 65 |
| AE | A unique survivor of the 1937 Flying Boat "Cygnus" crash | Kiran Natarajan | 63 |
| AS | The Apollo Missions | Barry Feltham, FRPSL | 62 |
| AE | Jai Hind - The True Spirit of India | K. Chaitanya Dev, FPCI | 60 |
| AE | The Indian Red Cross Postal Massaging WW II | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 59 |
| AE | Airmail Auxiliary Markings | Dr. Gregg Redner, FRPSL/FRPSC | 57 |
| AS | Rocket Plane to Shuttle : 1947-1982 | David S. Ball | 56 |
| AE | June 13, 1930 : Henri Guillaumet lost in the Andes | Dominique Petit | 55 |
| AE | Mail Transmission during Quetta Earthquake | Pragya Kothari Jain, FRPSL | 54 |
| AS | The Rocket Mails of India Livestock Experiments | Markand Dave, FRPSL | 53 |
| AE | Indian Airmail at the Time of Pearl Harbor, 1941 | Max Smith | 52 |
| AS | Space Race - The Race to the Moon | Christian Schmied | 50 |
| AE | The Chinook Crash - 6th November 1986 | Capt. Pushp Vaid VrC | 49 |
| AE | Master Class on Pioneer Air Mails of India | Terry Hare-Walker | 47 |
| AE | Detained Cover due to The Dardanus Incident | Piush Khaitan, FRPSL | 45 |
| AE | Indo-Ceylon Special Christmas Flight - December 36 | Ravindra Ratnapala | 44 |
| AS | Preparing an Effective Synopsis | David S. Ball | 43 |
| AE | India International Airmail Combination Frankings | Ravi Vora | 41 |
| AE | The Devil's Mail in the Air | Dr. Steven J. Berlin | 40 |
| AE | The 1929 Air Mail Stamps of India | Markand Dave, FRPSL | 38 |
| AE | The 1950 Crash of Air-India International's Malabar Princess | Jean Voruz, FRPSL | 37 |
| AE | Coogee Flights 1936-39 | Air Vice Marshal P.K. Kuruvilla VSM | 35 |
| AE | Air Crash Mail of Imperial Airways Flying Boats | Ken Sanford | 34 |
| AS | From India to Space | Savita Jhingan | 32 |
| AE | Canadian Airmail | Chris Hargreaves | 31 |
| AE | 1948 Air-India International Postal Stamp Issue | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 29 |
| AE | The 1933 Houston Mt. Everest Expedition | Eddie Hackstaff | 28 |
| AE | Stitching the Empire together by AIr | Pragya Jain | 25 |
| AE | The 1920 Bombay-Karachi Air Mail Service | Max Smith | 24 |
| AE | The 1929 Air Mail Stamps of India | Markand Dave, FRPSL | 23 |
| AE | Air Crashes of Imperial Airways | Ken Sanford | 20 |
| AE | The Basel Zeppelin Post Exchange Office | Dr. Cheryl Ganz, FRPSL | 19 |
| AS | Pushing the Evelope | David S. Ball | 18 |
| AE | By the First Aerial Post of the World, 18th February 1911 | Pradip Jain, FRPSL | 17 |
| AS | Indian Rocket Mails during WWII Period | Markand Dave, FRPSL | 16 |
| AE | Imperial Airways Route to India 1927-1929 | Terry Hare-Walker | 15 |
| AE | Indian Air Mails - One cover at a time (part 2) | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 12 |
| AE | The Birth of Air Mail - The First Post at Allahabad 18 February 1911 | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 11 |
| AE | Indian Air Mails - One cover at a time (part 1) | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 9 |
| AE | The 1948 Air-India International Postal Stamp Issue of 8th June 1948 | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 8 |
| AE | Magic of the Maharajah | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 7 |
| AE | Underpaid Indian Airmails | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 6 |
| AE | Mr. Piyush Khaitan on his collection of Indian Air Mails | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 5 |
| AE | Mail from India under the Postal Message Scheme IRCC during WWII | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 4 |
| AE | The Early Days of Civil Aviation In India | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 3 |
| AE | The 1932 Karachi-Madrs Flight of Tata Sons | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 2 |
| AE | Airship & Catapult Mail - The India Connection | Piyush Khaitan, FRPSL | 1 |