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Encyclopedia: Wiley Post

Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits. His plywood aircraft, the Winnie Mae is on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center adjacent to Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, and his pressure suit is being prepared for display at the same location. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, in Alaska.

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Roosevelt Airfield

Earhart and Wiley Post were among the many famous aviators who took off from this airfield. By the...

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Transatlantic flight

23-July 1, 1931. Wiley Post as pilot and Harold Gatty as navigator fly Lockheed monoplane Winnie Mae... hours, 11 minutes. July 15-22, 1933. Wiley Post flies Lockheed Vega monoplane Winnie Mae in first...

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1931 in aviation

landing on a glacier in Austria. June June 23-July 1, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty fly around the world...

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Lockheed Vega

, and Wiley Post flew his around the world twice. Designed by John Northrop and Gerrard Vultee, both of...

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1933 in aviation

, Wiley Post, flying a Lockheed Vega, makes the first around the world solo flight. His flight begins and...

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1935 in aviation

August 5 - Wiley Post is killed in a crash in Alaska. His passenger (also killed) is Will Rogers...

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1938 in aviation

Floyd Bennett Field New York, more than halving the time that Wiley Post took to make the trip...

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List of deaths by aircraft misadventure

- March 31, 1931 Will Rogers, Wiley Post - August 15, 1935 Amy Johnson - January 5, 1941 Carole Lombard...

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List of ticker-tape parades in New York City

and Maurice Bellonte following flight from Paris to New York City. 1931 July 2 - Wiley Post and Harold... and crew for flight from Rome to Chicago in 25 Italian seaplanes. 1933 July 26 - Wiley Post...), Wiley Post (2), Dwight D. Eisenhower (2), Charles de Gaulle (2), Haile Selassie (2), John Glenn (2...

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August 15

violinist (b. 1831) 1909 - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866) 1935 - Wiley Post, American pilot (b. 1898) 1935 - Will Rogers, American humorist and actor (b. 1879) 1936...

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