Wiley Hardeman Post first saw an aircraft, a Curtiss-Wright Pusher, in 1913, in Lawton, Oklahoma. Though he was only 15 years old, post enrolled in the Sweeney Automobile and Aviation School in ...

Today, Oklahomans celebrate the legacy of famed aviator Wiley Post. Wiley Hardeman Post was born on Nov. 22, 1898 in Corinth, Texas. Post moved to Oklahoma as a child, living near Maysville.

Wearing a "space suit" that he had invented, Oklahoma pilot Wiley Post made a forced landing at Cleveland, Ohio — short of his Newark, N.J., goal. He had flown from Los Angeles to Cleveland ...

“It has been a journey,” says artist and inventor, Nathan Pratt. He began sculpting famous Oklahoma aviator Wiley Post as a miniature first. But, he insists, “I always thought it would make ...

Point Barrow, Alaska, Aug. 16 (AP) Death reaching through an arctic fog, overtook Will Rogers, peerless comedian, and Wiley Post, master aviator, as their rebuilt airplane faltered and fell into ...

“Every aviator who uses it condemns it,” Amelia ... Globe-trotting pilot Wiley Post said he “found better airports in Siberia,” according to a collection of airport hate presented in ...