(Military) Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973), #C45 Wright Brothers FDC on light green cover, signed by WWI flying ace "Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker" with add-on all over hand-painted cachet of the Wright Brothers plane and a man by Bernard Goldberg. Rickenbacker shot down (26) enemy aircraft in WWI, becoming America's #1 flying ace. Beautiful cover (Image)

$175

(Astronaut) Space Shuttle "Endeavor" Mission STS-89 Astronaut Signatures (6) on FDC, contains autographs of Terry Wilcutt, Andy Thomas, Jim Reilly, Joe Edwards, Michael Anderson and Bonnie Dunbar. The mission flew to the MIR Space Station, dropping off one astronaut and several experimental equipment, picked up and an astronaut, plus several on-board experiments. Note: Michael Anderson died 5 years later when the space shuttle "Columbia" burned up on re-entry (Image)

$100

"Flying Tigers" Autographs, on #2187 FDC, group of (24) different pilots and crew members signed this ivory-colored 9½ x 4 1/4" limited edition FDC (#564/775). Cachet apparently designed by Dick Rossi, one of the P-40 pilots (as his name and address are imprinted on backflap) for the Claire Lee Chenault stamp issued in 1990. Exceptionally nice and (14) of the (24) signers were P-40 fighter pilots (Image)

$250