Wiley Post
Wiley Post
Wiley Hardeman Postwas a famed American aviator during the interwar period, 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 and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska...
ProfessionPilot
Date of Birth22 November 1898
CityGrand Saline, TX
cut emergency exhibition fatal herself standing switch time
I cut the emergency switch just in time to keep 'Winnie Mae' from making an exhibition of herself by standing on her nose. That would have been fatal to our hopes.
coming home
It was just the way Wiley would have wished, ... Coming home in an airplane.
create crowd drove edge sat view
We didn't want to create a stir, ... so we drove up to the edge of the crowd where we could get a view and sat there and waited.