Lot 603
[Space and Aviation Pioneers]. Nine items: Signature of Glenn Curtiss, father of the American aircraft industry; 1931 used FDC with cachet honoring and signed by Walter Hinton, who crossed the Atlantic in the Curtiss flying boat in 1919; 1931 FDC for 20th anniversary of first airmail flight on Sept. 23, 1911--with Los Angeles and New York cachets--signed by first U.S. airmail carrier, Earle L. Ovington, and by E.W. Kingsley; Photo Signed by Frank Whittle, the father of jet propulsion; 1957 Autograph Note Signed by Sir Geoffrey de Havilland, British aviation pioneer; signed commemorative page from "Man Into Space" by early rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth (he taught von Braun); a 1972 Typed Letter Signed by Wernher von Braun, father of the U.S. space program; a Photo Signed by John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth; and a sheet with First Day of Issue stamp commemorating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing signed by Apollo 13 astronaut Fred W. Haise. All fine.
Estimated Value $400 - 600.
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