The very idea of flight has inspired a number of U.S. stamps. Some are graphic designs that play with the shapes of runways, planes, and jet engines, without illustrating a specific plane. Others, more fanciful, suggest the attraction of flight in childhood games, from a boy “flying” an airplane made of wooden construction toys, to a famous comic-strip dog who pretends to be a World War I flying ace, maneuvering a “biplane” (in reality, his doghouse) in imaginary combat with Germany’s Red Baron.
