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Topic: Lifting body test pilot 'signed' covers
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Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 06-03-2017 02:03 PM
  
Am guessing that these various Lifting Body and other aircraft research flight covers from the 70s were not actually signed by the pilots. Any thoughts? 
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Apollo-Soyuz
Member Posts: 1205
From: Shady Side, Md
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 06-03-2017 02:30 PM
All the signatures look good to me especially the Fitz Fulton signature. The Ken Mattingly looks like a common autopen. |
bobslittlebro
Member Posts: 179
From: Douglasville, Ga U.S.A.
Registered: Nov 2009
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posted 06-03-2017 02:52 PM
I agree the Ken Mattingly being an autopen. I don't like the Bill Dana autograph. None of my Bill Dana autographs look like the one shown. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 06-03-2017 03:16 PM
Thanks for the replies. That HL-10 may be one of those local Boy Scouts cache covers where they wrote in the pilot's name after the event. |
NAAmodel#240
Member Posts: 312
From: Boston, Mass.
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 06-03-2017 07:51 PM
Also believe the Dana was written by someone else. On many test pilot covers names were written to identify the pilot without any attempt to deceive. |
Mike_The_First
Member Posts: 436
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2014
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posted 06-03-2017 08:39 PM
Some were written just for identification purposes.Others, as came up here last month, were written in a slightly more "confusing" (for lack of a better term) manner with a more questionable intent beyond simply identifying the pilot. That being said, if that Dana is supposed to be an unauthorized secretarial, it's a terrible one. It's more likely that it was just written in cursive for the purpose of writing it in cursive, like you said. The others all have the names stamped, so the signatures were most likely not added by the servicer (at least not as part of their standard duties). Once they started stamping, there was no need to hand-write the names, in any style. |
eurospace
Member Posts: 2610
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Dec 2000
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posted 06-07-2017 08:36 AM
I would also give a green light to the covers with Fulton, Manke, Powell, Enevoldsen. Mattingly is autopen, as mentioned earlier. Dana looks unusual, but it might be worth comparing early Dana signatures from this period. |
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