Wiley Post
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Wiley Hardeman Post was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream.
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Winnie Mae, Wiley Post's Lockheed Vega on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Wiley Post with Harold Gatty in Germany, 1931
Post in his third pressure suit
A cover flown by Post on all four of his attempts to make the first high altitude non-stop transcontinental flight from Los Angeles to New York, February-June 1935
Post with Will Rogers, August 1935
The gravestone of PostAwards 3
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Wiley Hardeman Post was an American aviator during the interwar period and the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Known for his work in high-altitude flying, he helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, he and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when his aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.
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