Wiley Post
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Birthday

: 22 November 1898

Birthplace

: Corinth, Van Zandt County, Texas, U.S.A.

Sign

: Sagittarius

Died

: 15 August 1935

Lived

: 36 years

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Wiley Post was a famed American aviator during the interwar period
He was the first pilot to fly solo around the world
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Real name:	Wiley Hardeman Post
Born:	22 November 1898 Comment
When did Wiley Post die? / Died	15 August 1935
How many years did Wiley Post live? / Lived	36 years
Where was Wiley Post born?	Corinth, Van Zandt County, Texas, U.S.A.
Where did Wiley Post die? / Deathplace	Point Barrow, Territory of Alaska, U.S.A.
Zodiac sign:	Sagittarius
Wiley Post Net worth 2024 (estimated)
How much is Wiley Post worth?	Under review
Hair color:	Brown
Eyes color:	Brown

Who was Wiley Post? / Facts

Early life and family - Post was born to cotton farmer parents, William Francis and Mae Quinlan Post.
His family moved to Oklahoma when he was five.
By 1920, his family settled on a farm near Maysville, Oklahoma.
Education - He was an indifferent student, but managed to complete the sixth grade.
Young Wiley's first view of an aircraft in flight came in 1913 at the county fair in Lawton, Oklahoma.
The event so inspired him that he immediately enrolled in the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School in Kansas City.
First job - Seven months later, he returned to Oklahoma and went to work at the Chickasaw and Lawton Construction Company.
World War I - During World War I Post wanted to become a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Service (USAS).
Joining the training camp at the University of Oklahoma, he learned radio technology.
Germany surrendered before he completed his training, the war ended, and he went to work as a "roughneck" in the Oklahoma oilfields.
Injuring his eye - In October 1926, Post was badly injured in an oil-rig accident when a piece of metal pierced his left eye.
An infection permanently blinded him in that eye, and he typically wore an eyepatch thereafter.
Legal issues - The work was unsteady, and Post turned briefly to armed robbery.
He was arrested in 1921 and sent to the Oklahoma State Reformatory.
Serving more than a year in the Oklahoma State Reformatory, he was paroled in the summer of 1922.
Flying career - Post's aviation career began at age 26 as a parachutist for a flying circus, Burrell Tibbs and His Texas Topnotch Fliers, and he became well known on the barnstorming circuit.
On October 1, 1926, an oil field accident cost him his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
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 aircraft of the early 1930s.
The oilman nicknamed it the Winnie Mae after his daughter, and Post achieved his first national prominence in it by winning the National Air Race Derby, from Los Angeles to Chicago.
Post earned a prize of $7,500 (the equivalent of $112,053 in 2020).
Around the world - On June 23, 1931, Post and the Australian navigator Harold Gatty, left Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, in the Winnie Mae with a flight plan that would take them around the world, stopping at different locations, to either refuel, repair or replace the plane's propeller, before returning to Roosevelt Field.
They arrived back on July 1, after traveling 15,474 miles (24,903 km) in the record time of 8 days and 15 hours and 51 minutes, in the first successful aerial circumnavigation by a single-engined monoplane.
Reception after beating the record - They had lunch at the White House on July 7, rode in a ticker-tape parade the next day in New York City, and were honored at a banquet given by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America at the Hotel Astor.
Winnie Mae - After the flight, Post acquired the Winnie Mae aircraft from F.C. Hall.
The aircraft was on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center from 2003 to 2011.
It is now featured in the "Time and Navigation" gallery on the second floor of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Writing - He and Gatty published an account of their journey titled, Around the World in Eight Days, with an introduction by Will Rogers.
First solo pilot - After the record-setting flight, Post wanted to open his own aeronautical school, but could not raise enough financial support because of doubts many had about his rural background and limited formal education.
Post decided to attempt a solo flight around the world and to break his previous speed record.
Over the next year, Post improved his aircraft by installing an autopilot device and a radio direction finder.
In 1933, he repeated his flight around the world, becoming the first to accomplish the feat alone.
Fifty thousand people greeted him on his return on July 22 after 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes.
Pressure suit - In 1934, Post began exploring the limits of high-altitude long-distance flight.
The Winnie Mae's cabin could not be pressurized, so he worked to develop what became the world's first practical pressure suit.
In the first flight using the suit on September 5, 1934, Post reached an altitude of 40,000 ft above Chicago.
Discovering the jet stream - Eventually flying as high as 50,000 ft, Post discovered the jet stream and made the first major practical advances in pressurized flight.
Attempted high altitude non-stop transcontinental flights - Between February 22 and June 15, 1935, Post made four unsuccessful attempts to complete the first high altitude non-stop flight from Los Angeles to New York, all of which failed for various mechanical reasons.
Personal life - Post married Mae Laine on June 27, 1927.
They had no children.
Awards - Post received the Distinguished Flying Cross (1932), the Gold Medal of Belgium (1934), and the International Harmon Trophy (1934).
Death - On August 15, 1935, at the age of 36, 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.
Tributes - Wiley Post Airport, a large FAA designated reliever airport in Oklahoma City, is named after Post.
He was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1969.
In 1997, he was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
Post was inducted posthumously into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2004.

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Education

Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School

Quotes

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.