What Is The UFO On This Uc14 Fluegel FDC?

It's fun to study First Day Cover cachets, especially the colorful Fluegels.

Looking at the scene on this one, today, a UC14 5-cent Skymaster Air Post Envelope, I noticed an unusual craft in the upper left corner.

The experimental YB-35 bomber was being developed at the time but was propeller driven piston engine craft and more angular in design. The YB-49, the experimental jet engine version of the YB-35 came a year later, as did the 1947 UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. This looks more like some of what can be seen in the sky, these days by many observers making UFO reports.

Great cover and really interesting question about the UFO. Actually it is an experimental flying boomerang.

Interesting...

Maybe the artist also did the comics for Buck Rogers!

David

ellasguy -- Had to look, and you're not even not even down under.

David -- Could be. Even that helicopter looks comic-bookish.

...not even not even?

Looks like I'm stuttering, but I'll leave it.

Hate to meet the native Australian (on a dark night) who through that .

The flying wing was known of by aircraft enthusiasts already at that time. The Nazi's already had the HO229 a stealth flying wing. It was jet propelled. US did a lot of experiments was this design as well. The drawing was likely done by a cartoonist. Also don't forget helicopters were still in their early days and no design had been set. The Nazi's had already used the helicopter in a military situation in WW2.

Mike

warrehouse, the Nazi craft was small compared to the YB-35 (B-35) and YB-49 I mentioned. This looks as if it could be huge and other-worldly, that is alien, compared to the photos of flying wings I've seen, and much more like what you hear about in UFO reports, now, rather than saucers. Someone had tremendous insight, or...

Even the helicopter, though cartoonish, is more sophisticated then the bubble-dome Korean War era choppers of the 1950's. And why would the designer choose to include these, rather than something like the DC-4 on the stamps if that's what was carrying the mail?

This was meant to be a representation of the future of postal airmail, both these crafts were in early development, but highly intriguing for those who were looking ahead.

Mike

I think the artist had been hanging out in the mountains near Area 51. They absolutely do have alien helicopters, spacecraft and more than one stamp collector from Mars there.

It has been reported that one of the cows pictured on the cover was later found, evidently dropped into the pasture, mutilated and drained of blood.

FYI: Fluegel Covers Produced by Overseas Mailers Ltd.,
by Steven Altman, Mark Goodson and Charles Mason

Mike