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Bookmark or Share- Wiley Post | National Air and Space MuseumHome / Wiley Post. On July 22, 1933, Wiley Post completed a solo flight around the world in the Lockheed 5C Vega Winnie Mae. This record-breaking flight demonstrated several significant aviation technologies. It used two relatively new aeronautical devices—an autopilot and a radio direction finder.
- Wiley Post - WikipediaWiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream.
- Post, Wiley Hardeman | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and CultureWiley Post. (19336.151, Wiley Post Collection, OHS). POST, WILEY HARDEMAN (1898–1935). On November 22, 1898, Mae Post gave birth to a boy near the small farming community of Corinth, Texas. Mae and her husband, William Francis Post, named the infant Wiley Hardeman. He was one of five children born to the small-time cotton farmers.
- Remembering Wiley Post and Will RogersWiley Post became one of America’s greatest aviators at the height of the Great Depression. Even with the loss of his left eye, Post was able to break numerous aeronautical records before his tragic death alongside Will Rogers in Alaska.
- Wiley Post - First to Fly Solo Around the World, in the Winnie MaeWiley Post - First to Fly Solo Around the World, in the Winnie Mae. First to Fly Solo Around the World, Lost over Alaska. By Stephen Sherman, Jan. 2001. Updated June 27, 2011. W hen Wiley Post and Will Rogers crashed at Point Barrow, Alaska on August 15, 1935, the world mourned the loss of the great flier and the beloved humorist.
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