The emphasis on publications as a means of disseminating knowledge was expressed by the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The authors would like to thank all the people mentioned in the book who have given their time, documents and photographs to make this endeavor a reality. It was packed in a bag that was tied to the right wing strut.
The loss of the eye was a severe blow to the young Oklahoman's dream of becoming an aviator. Navy (retired), who was already one of the world's authorities on air navigation. The Air Derby started, but unfortunately the Winnie Mae's magnetic compass stuck shortly afterwards.
Consequently, Hall paid most of the cost of the flight out of his own pocket. A late model modern car is parked at the back of the Winnie Mae, just off the driveway.
N & Eye Piece
With proper media coverage, Winnie Mae's flight could take on more significant proportions. Winnie Mae's arrival in the German capital caused great excitement at Tempelhof Airport, where a large crowd awaited him. The "dust bowl" environment of the Southwest of this period is evident in the Winnie Mae prop.
The four-cylinder engine, which was parked just in front and to the left of the Winnie Mae, was popular with police. And at this point another development in the Winnie Mae ownership took place. On the far left is George Brauer, who performed much of the repair work on the aircraft.
The openings for the left and right rudder pedals are shown in the lower portion of the figure. The Winnie Mae's Wasp engine had run for 846 hours at that point. An hour went around the clock and then another hour; Then a purple rim took shape along the monotonous horizon before us, framed by the haze of the Winnie Mae's propeller arc – the mountain.
The Winnie Mae's Sperry Autopilot was on display in the lobby of the Roxy Theater at the same time.60. The oxygen inflow tube leads from the converter to the left side of the helmet. The inflow oxygen tube is shown on the left side of the faceplate base (the oxygen flow served secondarily to de-fog the inside of the glass faceplate).
Eventually Wiley had to be removed from the suit, which was absolutely destroyed in the process.
WINNIE MAE
Moore to Chief, General Inspection Service, August 31, 1935
Other memorials followed, including: a city park in Oklahoma City was named Wiley Post Park by city schoolchildren; a street in Los Angeles was called Wiley Post Boulevard; and two years after the Point Barrow accident, a monument commemorating Post and Rogers was built at the site of Colonel Homer F's fatal crash. In addition, Tulakes Airport, northwest of Oklahoma City, was renamed Wiley Post. Airport, in October 1961. A life-size bronze statue of Wiley Post by sculptor Leonard McMurry was placed in the Oklahoma City Civic Center and dedicated by the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce on September 26, 1963.
INFORMATION FROM POST'S PILOT RECORDS
H. Post 706 29th Street Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
POST'S THREE AIRPLANES
Fuel tanks were placed in the wings, a metal propeller and wheel brakes were installed, and a starter using the inertia principle was standard. The aircraft was named after Winnie Mae, Hall's daughter, and was sold back to Lockheed in 1929. Wheel pants and a NACA canopy were used on the airplane when Art Goebel flew it in the 1930 National Air Race (placing second, behind Wiley Post in Hall's second "Winnie Mae" Vega).
Transcontinental and Western Air of Kansas City purchased the plane in 1933 and flew it for about two years. In 1935 Charles Babb of Glendale, California purchased the fuselage (Babb was an aircraft broker). Babb had also purchased the wing for the Lockheed Explorer, Model 7 (Special), number NR101W, manufactured in April 1930 (this aircraft had no ATC certificate).
The Explorer was a low-wing aircraft similar to the Lockheed Sirius (a type used in the early 1930s by Lindbergh), but with wings about six feet longer than the Sirius's. The Explorer mentioned above was designed specifically for a non-stop attempt from Paris to New York City to be performed by Art Goebel. The plane was renamed the Blue Flash, painted blue and white, and Roy Ammel planned to fly it to Paris or Rome from New York.
It was damaged by a ground fire at Gila Bend, Arizona, in 1930, repaired by Lockheed, and then flown by Ammel non-stop to the Canal Zone from New York City (the first non-stop flight over this route). During the Depression years, however, fast planes were scarce and expensive, and this was a way to reincarnate one. The float installation made the aircraft nose-heavy due to forward displacement of the center of gravity.
The aircraft was damaged beyond repair in the fatal crash of Post and Rogers near Point Barrow, Alaska, on August 15, 1935. The Explorer's wingspan was 48 feet six inches (compared to the Orion and Sirius wingspan of 42 feet 9V2 inches). The Vega hull length of 27 feet six inches was the same as the Orion hull length as well as that of the Explorer.
