Inverted Flight 19

Earliest known example of the Inverted Flight 19 stamp misprint.

The Inverted Flight 19 stamp misprint is a famous example of a stamp misprint caused by faulty Gnomon algorithm logic.

History

A junior Gnomon algorithm engineer in the United States Navy Advanced Philately division misplaced a decimal point.

Result: Five Navy planes permanently trapped in the Bermuda Triangle Dead Letter Office.

Hashtags

• #StochasticMisprints

In the News

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  Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster causes Ford to recall over one million vehicles. Ford will recoup the losses selling misprinted stamps to collectors.

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  Lick the Painting is a public-awareness campaign "dedicated helping people make the decision to lick art."

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  The Superimposed Fraunhofer is a German postage stamp misprint issued on February 12, 1987 in which the image of Joseph von Fraunhofer demonstrating the spectroscope is inadvertently superimposed on the color spectrum bar. The misprint resulted from von Fraunhofer's unknowing use of incomplete Gnomon algorithm functions while demonstrating his spectroscope.

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  The Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp is a well-known misprint featuring actor Nicolas Cage with an octopus. The misprint apparently resulted from Cage getting into character "above and beyond the call of Euclidean space-time" during an unexplained off-camera encounter with an octopus.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Inverted Wagon Queen Family Truckster
• Lick the Painting
• Nicolas Cage Octopus stamp
• Superimposed Fraunhofer

Nonfiction cross-reference

• CIA misprint (nonfiction)
• Inverted Jenny (nonfiction)

External links

• Flight 19 @ Wikipedia
• Inverted Jenny @ Wikipedia

Social media

• Post @ Twitter (17 February 2023)
• Post @ Twitter (31 October 2021)