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Cozmosis22
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posted 07-25-2018 10:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cozmosis22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here is a cover with a rather vague cache that mentions some kind of first flight. Hoping it was a rocket test but I am thinking it may be in regards to some new Air Mail delivery route set up between El Paso, Alamogordo, and Albuquerque, New Mexico?

thisismills
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posted 07-25-2018 01:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for thisismills   Click Here to Email thisismills     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Your hunch was correct, it is US Airmail first flight cover, for a contract airmail route. See reference excerpt from the American Airmail Catalog below.


Antoni RIGO
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posted 07-26-2018 03:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Antoni RIGO   Click Here to Email Antoni RIGO     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanks to both for the explanation and supports.

In the past, I have seen this cover in Astrophilatelic exhibits misplaced as a rocket launch (just because the RSC shows a rocket) when it refers correctly to an airmail contract.

So, pay attention to all astrocollectors that this cover is not a ROCKET cover (even if the image shows a rocket) but an airmail cover, more appropiate to be placed in an Aerophilatelic exhibit.

Cozmosis22
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posted 07-27-2018 04:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Cozmosis22     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Many thanks for the responses. Can indeed learn something new here every day at collectSPACE.

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