Price List - Experimental Test Pilot Autographs /Joe Frasketi's Philatelic Space Covers

Autographs of
Experimental Test Pilots
on Commemorative Covers

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Some abbreviations frequently used on this page are:
AU which means Autograph
NACA which means the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which became
NASA which means National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

All items are covers unless otherwise noted.
All covers are the standard U.S. #6 size (approximately 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches), as collected in the USA, unless otherwise noted.
Foreign covers may be slightly smaller in size than the standard U.S. #6 size and if so, their size will NOT be noted. Any cover larger than a number 6 size will be noted or any item of an unordinary size will be so noted.
All covers are unaddressed unless otherwise noted.
All covers are cacheted unless otherwise noted. A brief description of the cachet is given of the event being commemorated.
If covers are autographed they are genuine, unless otherwise noted.
Where stamp(s) used on the item are of significance, such as being a space stamp or a flag stamp or related to the event or location, it will be described. Otherwise the stamp(s) used on the item may be a definitive issue or an unrelated commemorative issue, and will not be described.
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Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

PILOT	1005A	$25.00	09/30/1972
JIM ABRAHAMSON, early experimental test pilot, one of 16 chosen for the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory Flights. He later became the Associate Administrator For for NASA at Houston TX. AU inscribed: "Jim Abrahamson, Brig. Gen. U.S.A.F., U.S. Manned Orbiting Laboratory Flight Crew", on West Germany pictorial cancel cover from Garmish, showing a winged spacecraft, dated 09-30-72, with pictorial printed cachet showing the Skylab Space Station and a winged spacecraft. IMAGE

PILOT	1045B	$15.00	12/02/1966
BILL DANA, Early experimental test pilot for the X-15 and M2F3 lifting body project. AU on cover with West Germany pictorial hand cancel showing a rocket/glider (winged spacecraft), from Bremen, dated 12-02-66. With printed cachet showing a lifting body spacecraft and word cachet in German for the M2-F2 and the special cancel. IMAGE

PILOT	1055B	$12.00	11/08/1973	E
EINER ENEVOLDSON, NASA experimental research pilot. AU inscribed: "Einer Enevoldson, NASA", on 2nd flight of F-15 R.P.R.V. (Remotely Piloted Research Vehicle) cover which he piloted, Servicers rubber stamp word cachet on envelope cancelled Edwards CA 11-08-73.

PILOT	1135A	$25.00	05/25/1971
JOHN MANKE, early experimental test pilot, AU on X-24 lifting body flight cover. AU inscribed "John Manke, The X-24 is one of three lifting bodies being flight tested. The other two are the HL-10 and the M2-F3.", cover cancelled Edwards CA, 05-25-71, with servicers 4 line word rubber stamp cachet reading "X-24, Rocket Propelled Lifting Body, Edwards AFB. (Note: the X-24 lifting body were used to test Space Shuttle techniques).

PILOT	1135E	$35.00	10/27/1972
JOHN MANKE, Early experimental test pilot for X-24 lifting body program. AU cover with First U.S. Space Pictorial Hand Cancel To Show The Space Shuttle. from (CPS) Chicago Philatelic Society Exh. Sta. 10-27-72, Chicago IL, ON Apollo 15 stamp. WIth official CPS printed cachet #2 for Project Gemini manned space program. (Value place on this cover is not only for the AU but the first Space Shuttle cancel).

PILOT	1168A	$35.00	10/27/1972
BRUCE PETERSON, Early experimental test pilot for M2/F1, M2/F2, HL-10, AU cover with First U.S. Space Pictorial Hand Cancel To Show The Space Shuttle, from (CPS) Chicago Philatelic Society Exh. Sta. 10-27-72, Chicago IL, On Apollo 15 stamp. WIth official CPS printed cahet #1 for Project Mercury manned space program. (Value placed on this cover is not only for the AU but the first Space Shuttle cancel.) IMAGE

PILOT	1168B	$13.00	12/02/1966
BRUCE PETERSON, Early experimental test pilot for M2/F1, M2/F2, Hl-10. AU on cover with West Germany pictorial hand cancel showing a rocket/gloder (winged spacecraft), from Bremen, dated 12-02-66. With printed cachet showing a lifting body spacecraft and word cachet in German for the M2- F2 and the special cancel.

PILOT	1168C	$12.50	04/13/1981	H
BRUCE PETERSON. Early experimental research test pilot for the lifting body aircraft and other aircraft. He was also selected as an X-20 DynaSoar Pilot. Autographed and inscribed: "Bruce Peterson, NASA Lifting Body Test Pilot", on a STS-1 second day of flight commemorative cover, with a Houston TX machine cancel on a airmail border envelope, (cancel is light but readable) and a black rubber stamp word cachet (unidentified) that reads: " STS- 1 Space Shuttle Mission". Front of cover has a typed return address of "Photo Technology Div., JL-3-NASA, L.B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas 77058". (Peterson was a NASA Dryden research pilot from the early 1960s until 1967. He tested the Rogallo paraglider research vehicle (Parasev), he also flew the M2-F1 and M2-F2 lifting bodys and the HL-10 lifting body M2-F2. later he was a Research Project Engineer on the Digital Fly-By-Wire program).

DB: 04/23/2008 15:10:47 tusd(30,8,22,0)

See related pricelists:
Autographed Covers of Experimental Research Test Pilots (Part 2)
See related pricelist (unautographed):
Experimental Test Covers, Various Flights, Various Cachets

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