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	Wiley Post Summary
		Post was the personal pilot of wealthy Oklahoma oilmen Powell Briscoe and F.C. Hall in 1930 when Hall bought a high-wing, single-engine Lockheed Vega, one of the most famous record-breaking planes of the early 1930s.
		Over the next year, Post improved his airplane by installing an autopilot device and a radio compass that were in their final stages of development by the Sperry Gyroscope Company and the United States Army.
		Post became interested in 1935 in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast of the United States to Russia.
	www.bookrags.com /Wiley_Post (1295 words)

	Wiley Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Post was the personal pilot of wealthy Oklahoma oilmen Powell Briscoe and F.C. Hall in 1930 when Hall bought a high-wing, single-engine Lockheed Vega, one of the most famous record-breaking planes of the early 1930s.
		Post became interested in 1935 in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast of the United States to Russia.
		Wiley Post received the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932), the Gold Medal of Belgium (1934), and the International Harmon Trophy (1934).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wiley_Post (1235 words)

	Wiley Post
		Wiley Post with Orion-Explorer hybrid seaplane, which was built by mating the wing of Explorer 4 with an Orion 9E.
		Post was born in 1898 in Grand Saline, Texas, to farmers.
		Although many people believed that Post's solo trans-global flight was his most significant accomplishment, or as fellow aviator Howard Hughes said, "the most remarkable flight in history," Post's development of the pressure suit and his substratospheric flights probably had a greater impact on aviation because they advanced the science and theory of flight.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Explorers_Record_Setters_and_Daredevils/Wiley_Post/EX27.htm (1521 words)

	Wiley Post
		Wiley Hardman Post was born in November 1898, in Grand Saline, Texas, to William Frances and Mae Laine Post, who made their living as farmers.
		Wiley, however, was practical and began work as a mechanic in an oil field instead, but he never forgot his dream to become a pilot.
		Post also developed the first practical pressure suit and Wiley Post was one of the most celebrated pilots in aviation history.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3708.html (1286 words)

	WILEY POST
		Wiley Post and the "Winnie Mae", during a visit to Quincy, Illinois, in 1934.
		Wiley Post, who had only one eye, flew his Lockheed Vega 5C Winnie Mae around the world, twice, in a eastward direction, from in New York, in 1931 and 1933.
		Post was not seriously injured in the accident, though he was hospitalized, and the Winnie Mae had to be repaired.
	roynagl.topcities.com /wileypost.htm (499 words)

	Wiley Post by Mike Wimmer
		Wiley Post was from Maysville, Oklahoma and during the 1930's became one of the world’s most famous pilots.
		Post who only had a sixth grade education, was the first pilot to fly solo around the world.
		Wiley Post by Mike Wimmer is located in the rotunda area on the fourth floor of the Oklahoma State Capitol and can be viewed daily from 8:30-5:30.
	www.state.ok.us /~arts/capitolart/permart/paintings/wimmer/post.html (400 words)

	::: Aerospace America :::
		Post is considered the first “astronaut” because the high altitude pressurized flight suit he developed is a forerunner of the equipment worn by present-day astronauts.
		The Wiley Post Biplane was produced in the same hangar during the early ‘30’s.
		The current Wiley Post Airport is one of the nation’s premiere general aviation airports.
	www.aerospaceokc.com /wileypost.html (1143 words)

	Jim Slade's Air Lines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wiley Post was not a rich man, but oilman F. Hall was, and Post was Hall's personal pilot.
		Wiley Post began flying in 1926, taking lessons where he could get them while working as a parachute jumper in a flying circus.
		Wiley and Winnie Mae won the race, flying 1,760 miles in 9 hours, 9 minutes and 4 seconds for an average 192 miles per hour, beating their nearest competitor by just seconds for a prize of $7,500.
	jimsladesairlines.com /eightdayseast1.html (1037 words)

	Wiley Hardeman Post (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At fourteen Wiley Post saw his first airplane at a county fair near his home in Oklahoma.
		Post won the 1930 Bendix Trophy race using that aircraft, the Winnie Mae.
		Post and Rogers were killed in the crash of the Orion-Explorer near Point Barrow in August 1935.
	www.hill.af.mil /museum/history/post.htm (297 words)

	First Flight Shrine: Wiley H. Post - The First Flight Society - The First Flight Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Earlier, in 1931, ex-barnstormer Post and navigator Harold Gatty had thrilled the nation by dashing around the world in the Winnie Mae.
		Post was considered one of the most colorful figures of early aviation.
		His aerial achievements proved that shrinking the globe was as much a test of human endurance as a display of technological progress.
	www.firstflight.org /shrine/wiley_post.cfm (237 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Wiley Hardeman Post, aviator, fourth son of William Francis and Mae (Quinlan) Post, was born near Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas, on November 22, 1898.
		Before his death in a plane crash in 1935, Post became one of the best-known fliers in the world, mainly because of a flight around the world with navigator Harold Gatty in 1931 and a similar solo flight in 1933.
		Although Post made several flights into the stratosphere and later attempted to break the cross-country speed record, he was plagued by mechanical failures.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/fpo27.html (1100 words)

	Fly-Low Publications Aviation News
		Bob Kemper, executive director, Curtiss-Wright Wiley Post Hangar, Inc., said the purpose of the commission is to establish an annual award that brings national and international recognition to an individual in general aviation who best exemplifies the engineering and innovative pioneer spirit of Wiley Post.
		Post was an international hero and was the first person to fly solo around the world in 1931.
		Anniversary of the Power of Flight in December of 2004 at Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City Kemper said the Wiley post Commission’s selection committee consist of long time aviation professionals, aircraft builders, pilots, and a former astronaut.
	www.fly-low.com /feat0501/wpsa.html (1095 words)

	Center for Archival Collections, MS 520
		Wiley Post no. 46 (Bowling Green, Ohio) was organized April 8, 1881 by 47 veterans of the Civil War.
		The post was officially dropped from the rolls of the Department of Ohio in 1943, after the death of its last member, David P. Trumbull on September 21st of that year.
		The Post was named in honor of Enoch B. Wiley, a member of Company C, 21st O.V.I., who was wounded at the Battle of Stone River on December 31, 1862, and died January 5, 1863.
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/cac/ms0520.html (531 words)

	Wiley Post, Harold Gatty
		Wiley Post and Harold Gatty may be a streak in the air but on the ground they’re just a couple of tired-looking airmen who are record-breakers neither for talk nor action.
		Refreshed from their night’s rest, Post and Gatty left this morning at 7:50 for Spokane, where they are to appear on a jubilee program.
		Post, climbing out of the inclosed [stet] cockpit of the plane, remarked that he was "a little bit stiff." Gatty, getting out of the cabin of the ship, said nothing.
	www.geocities.com /~wallyg/tresroblespost.htm (719 words)

	The Wiley H. Post Page of the Davis-Monthan Airfield Register Website
		The popularity of Wiley Post and the "Winnie Mae" has led to replicas of his airplane here, and at least one museum Vega being painted in the colors of "Winnie Mae".
		During the 1920s and early 1930s he barnstormed, flew in air races, set a round-the-world record in 1931 (with Harold Gatty navigating), and was the first person to fly solo around the world in 1933.
		It shows the "Winnie Mae" with Harold Gatty, center, and Wiley Post, right (sans eye patch), with a police officer on the left for whom the word "lank" was invented.
	www.dmairfield.com /people/post_wh/index.htm (438 words)

	The Curtiss Wright Wiley Post Hangar Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Post discovered the jet stream while setting a new altitude records of 50,000 feet in his Lockheed Vega.
		The current Wiley Post Airport is one of the nation’s premier general aviation airports.
		Dreams of worldwide air travel were born under the steel trusses of that hangar – dreams that came from the minds of Wiley Post and Tom Braniff.
	www.swaviator.com /html/issueJA04/curtissright.html (1243 words)

	Wiley Post: The First Pilot to Fly Around the World Alone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wiley Post began his career in flying, not as a pilot, but as a performer who jumps from airplanes using a parachute.
		Wiley Post then decided the only way to become a good pilot was to buy an airplane of his own.
		Wiley Post knew that any effort has a good chance of success if the person planning the task is well prepared.
	www.voanews.com /specialenglish/2005-09-14-voa1.cfm (1366 words)

	Wiley Post Airport
		Wiley Post airport is located at 5915 Phillip J. Rhoads Ave.
		Wiley Post hosts a full-service control tower that operates daily from 7:00 a.m.
		The event is an aircraft race from Wiley Post to various checkpoints around the state and back to Wiley Post.
	www.wileypostairport.com (244 words)

	Post, Wiley - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		POST, WILEY [Post, Wiley] 1899-1935, American aviator, b.
		Post was killed with Will Rogers in an airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska.
		Wiley Post plans new hangars to meet needs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-post-w1il.html (217 words)

	Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae
		Wiley Post was born in Texas on November 22, 1898.
		The Will Rogers and Wiley Post Monument, across from the state-owned Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport, was dedicated in 1982 to commemorate the 1935 plane crash that killed the humorist and the famous pilot.
		Post's important discovery in atmospheric dynamics also led to the creation of a pressurized pilot suit the prototype for what astronauts wear in space.
	www.acepilots.com /post.html (3899 words)

	Wiley Post Heritage of Flight Center Home
		WILEY POST FLIERS who are scheduled at this time are Michael and Rebecca Way, Sid Emert, Dr. Ken Rogers and Herb Driskill.
		The Post family farm is two-miles North of Maysville on Highway 74, just on the western edge of the Washita Valley which holds some of the richest and most valuable from land in Oklahoma.
		Wiley's barnstorming and student flight training operation in Purcell, OK came to a halt as a result of the failure of farm price support.
	www.wileypost.com (567 words)

	Wiley Post Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wiley Post Airport (IATA: PWA, ICAO: KPWA) is a public airport located seven miles (11 km) northwest of Oklahoma City, in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA.
		It was named after Wiley Post, the first pilot to fly solo around the world.
		A growing number of licensed private pilots consider Wiley Post their airport home, and their activities give the facility a strong community orientation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wiley_Post_Airport (202 words)

	NASA Quest > Space Team Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It all began with high-altitude flyers, and one of the first was an American, Wiley Post.
		Post, an aviation pioneer of the 1930s, was seeking to break high-altitude and speed records.
		Post, as well as others, knew that protection against low pressure was essential.
	quest.arc.nasa.gov /space/teachers/suited/4space1.html (642 words)

	Rogers-Post Site--Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Wiley Post, holder of two around-the-world aviation flight records, had contributed prominently to the advance of international aviation, including the study of the sub-stratosphere.
		Born in Texas in 1899, Wiley Post's internationally recognized career followed his unexpected win as an unknown of the 1930 National Air Race from Los Angeles to California.
		The airplane that Post and Rogers were flying in 1935 was an advanced version of the Winnie May, but designed by Post.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/rps.htm (717 words)

	Wiley Post Suit
		In his Lockheed Vega, the "Winnie May", Post set unofficial altitude records (as high as 15 km), discovering the jet stream in the process.
		In March 1935, Post flew from Burbank California to Cleveland Ohio in the stratosphere using the jet stream.
		Post's pioneering accomplishments were the first major practical advance in pressurised flight.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/wiltsuit.htm (184 words)

	Wiley Post Airport - About Airport
		Located in northwest Oklahoma City, Wiley Post Airport is home base for nearly 400 aircraft, ranging in size from single-engine planes to corporate jets.
		Wiley Post Airport is truly a pilot's world, where everyone speaks the language and lives the life of planes and flying.
		Whether you need a stopover to refuel yourself and your plane, a permanent airport home where every type of maintenance and refurbishment is available, or a headquarters for your enterprise in a thriving, business-friendly community, Wiley Post is likely to have what you want, at a price you will like.
	www.wileypostairport.com /about.html (219 words)

	Wiley Post Suit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In his Lockheed Vega, the "Winnie May", Post set unofficial altitude records (as high as 15 km), discovering the jet stream in the process.
		In March 1935, Post flew from Burbank California to Cleveland Ohio in the stratosphere using the jet stream.
		Post's pioneering accomplishments were the first major practical advance in pressurised flight.
	www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/mwade/craft/wiltsuit.htm (184 words)

	Solo Flights around the World
		Wiley Post et Gatty, Harold, Around the World in Eight Days, (The Flight of the Winnie Mae), Orion Books, 1931, 1989, New York.
		Book written by Post and Gatty, probablemeny with help from Leo Kieran does not cover the solo flight since it was written before, but the flight with Gatty as navigator in 1931 and gives a good idea of the two men and of the aircraft.
		Post will follow the same route in his solo flight in 1933.
	soloflights.org /post_data_e.html (677 words)

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