LT. COMMANDER DONALD L. MALLICK - SPECIAL COVER SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: LT. COLONEL FITZ (FITZHUGH) FULTON JR., VIC HORTON - HFSID 223478

DON MALLICK, FITZ FULTON and VIC HORTON
The NASA pilots who participated in the first Solid Booster Parachute Drop Flight Test sign this special cover honoring their mission
Special Cover signed: "Fitz Fulton", "Don Mallick" and "Vic Horton", 6½x3¾. Special Cover for the "Solid Booster Parachute Drop Flight Test No. 1, DTV No. 1", 13-cent 13-star flag/Independence Hall stamp affixed, postmarked Edwards, CA, June 10, 1977. At upper left, cachet pictures an "Artist Sketch of Eventual Sea Drop in 1979". A sketch of the plane is captioned: "B-52 Carries Recoverable Solid Booster Rocket Aloft In Preparation For Parachute Drop Tests, Scaled Down Model of Shuttle Booster (Drop Test Vehicle) DTV'. There is also a sketch of Edwards AFB and sketches of the mission's pilots, Fulton & Mallick. DON MALLICK (b. 1930) was a NASA research pilot at the Dryden Flight Research Center from 1963-1981, later becoming Deputy Chief of the Dryden Aircraft Operations Division. Chief Pilot from 1967, he was involved in the YF-12 and XB-70 research programs, and in the mid-1960s, he was chief project pilot for NASA's Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV). FITZHUGH L. "FITZ" FULTON (1925-2015) was a civilian research pilot at the Dryden Flight Research Center from 1961-1986. A veteran of 23 years as a U.S. Air Force pilot, he was the project pilot on all early tests of the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), which launched the space shuttle prototype Enterprise, and the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) at Dryden in 1977. Fulton was also the project pilot for NASA's B-52 launch aircraft (as pictured here). VIC HORTON was a Flight Engineer for NASA's research leading up to the launch of the space shuttle, Enterprise. Slightly creased. Fine condition.