Wiley Post
March 2, 1949: Around the World Without Landing
...175 days, with numerous stops where major repairs were required to the Douglas World Cruisers. In 1931, Wiley Post flew a Lockheed Vega named the Winnie Mae around the world in 8 days, 15...
Wiley Post
"Winnie Mae" a Lockheed Vega aircraft of Wiley Post, on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 - August 15, 1935) was the first pilot to fly...
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Death toll from winter storm up to at least 5 in Oklahoma
...City area all reached at least 34 degrees today. The weather service stations at Will Rogers and Wiley Post airports and Mesonet stations in north and west Oklahoma City topped out...
Forget E-Books: The Future of the Book Is Far More Interesting
...a one-stop shop for all the information surrounding a particular subject matter. Imagine a biography of Wiley Post, the one-eyed pilot from the 1930s who was the first to fly around the...
HARP volunteers keep history flying at Floyd Bennett Field
...of different functions in the national story. " Back in the 1930s, superstar American aviators like Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart included Floyd Bennett Field - New York's City's very...
Fay Gillis Wells
...and the first foreigner to own a Soviet glider. She also handled the logistics in Russia for famed aviator Wiley Post's solo round-the-world flight in 1933, and was the New York Times'...
BK's National Park
...include salutes to world-famous aviators and Floyd Bennett Field luminaries like Howard Hughes, Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart - currently being resurrected on movie screens nationwide by...
A Look Back - Birth of a homespun philosopher
I am a Democrat," he liked to say. He died in an Alaska plane crash in 1935 that also killed famed pilot Wiley Post. Rogers is pictured with Louise Dresser in a scene from the movie...
Wiley Post Airport
...district of Oklahoma City , in Oklahoma County , Oklahoma, United States. It was named after Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world, and holds the distinction of...
Harold Gatty
...called Gatty the "Prince of Navigators." In 1931, Gatty served as navigator, along with pilot Wiley Post, on the flight which set the record for aerial circumnavigation of the world,...
From oasis to education
...to Woolaroc included famous dignitaries, celebrities, and politicians as well as national figures Wiley Post and Will Rogers. The most famous of the Phillips's picnics was the...
Portal:Aviation/Historical anniversaries/July in aviation/July 14
...Bennett Field New York, more than halving the time that Wiley Post took to make the trip. 1933 - July 14-22 , Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega, makes the first around the world solo...
