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Topic: NASA Dryden Flight Research Center patches
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GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 11-02-2013 09:15 AM
   
I picked these two patches up on eBay last week, because I'm trying to put together a collection of patches associated with bases where I lived as an Air Force brat (Edwards '84-'86.)I only paid a few bucks for them, but I'm curious as to their provenance if anyone has any info. Both use the NASA "worm," so I was wondering how far back they go.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42984
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-02-2013 11:01 AM
I don't know about the years of production or use, but browsing eBay, here's a different version of the top patch (I'm thinking this one might be an older vintage, given the more accurate space shuttle): On edit: Th above patch is included in Judith Kaplan's and Robert Muniz' book, "Space Patches: From Mercury to the Space Shuttle," published in 1986 — so it at least dates back that far. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-02-2013 12:26 PM
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Originally posted by GoesTo11:
I'm curious as to their provenance if anyone has any info.
I think the blue Dryden is a replica.I have an original one, given to me the first time I was at that facility, in the early 90s. It's hard to see in this shot, but it's sewn to my helmet bag and you can see the lettering on the NASA name is much thicker. I've compared mine to your shots up close and I think yours is either a copy or from a totally different run.  |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-02-2013 03:34 PM
As far as I know, the NASA "worm" logo first started appearing in early 1975. |
Bill Nelson
Member Posts: 151
From: Lakewood, Colorado U.S.A.
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-03-2013 01:45 AM
I bought one like the blue patch from the Dryden gift shop in December of 1981. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-05-2013 10:32 AM
NASA Dryden and NASA Ames are certainly a special patches "niche" on their own... took me long time to find the NASA KAO - Kuiper Airborne Observatory patches (C-141).  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42984
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-06-2013 05:56 PM
A few more Dryden Flight Research Center related patches. The first was made by Winco International:  The next three were made by AB Emblem. The third was produced in 2012.  
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