Page 155 - Demo

In 1960 and %u201861, the Society of Applied Rocketry built 6 rockets to launch with postal covers aboard. The plan was to sell the covers to collectors after the flights in order to recoup their expenses. The Society was formed by a few stamp collectors in conjunction with a student rocket group called Reaction Engines and Controls, which was from the Brooklyn Technical College of New York. Four of the flights were successful, and the covers were posted by regular mail to officially date them. The group offered a reward of $500 to anyone who could recover one of their rockets that sank in 150 feet of water about a half mile off the Lincolnville Beach shore, but it is unknown if there was a salvage operation. This cover is from one of the successful flights, and was initialed P.F.Z. by Perry F. Zwisler who, along with Jessee T. Ellington, authored the twovolume Ellington-Zwisler Rocket Mail Catalog. In 245-pages, it contains information on all known rocket-mail flights, from every country, through the end of 1967. The catalog is considered the best resource for rocket-mail for this era.One of the 13-foot mail-carrying rockets tested in Lincolnville, Maine in 1960.