- Year
- 1955–1965
- By
- Smith, Stephen H. & Kronstein, Max (Dr.)
- Published
- North Miami, Florida: H.J.M.R. Co. (Billig Publications).
- Edition
- English. Wraps, three volumes.
- Ciancone
- N/A.
- Shelf
- L3
- Catalog
- Catalog E · Miscellanea
Three volumes in one running sequence, each correcting or supplementing the last, from the specialized philatelic series founded by Fritz Billig.
All three give their own account of the same event as the souvenir volume elsewhere in this collection: the July 2, 1936 rocket mail flight across the Rio Grande between McAllen, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico.
Volume 8 (1955), by Stephen H. Smith, misattributes the experiment to Professor R. H. Goddard. Volume 8A (1958), Dr. Max Kronstein’s supplement, is headed “Supplemented and Corrected Text for the Whole Page 68” and restores the true experimenter, sixteen-year-old Keith E. Rumbel of the McAllen American Legion post, while adding three previously uncatalogued trial rockets flown ten days before the international flight. Volume 8B (1965), Kronstein’s second supplement, continues the sequence to July 2, 1961, a further pair of flights marking the 25th anniversary of the original crossing.
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