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 ...

Daring aviator and air travel pioneer Wiley Post was the first person to fly solo around the world; he was an innovator in high-altitude flying and pioneer of instrumentation flying. The Wiley ...

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 ...

In fact, the occasion was the Will Rogers/Wiley Post Fly-In and National ... Rogers and Post were on the same proverbial page. Post, a pioneering aviator during the industry’s golden age between ...

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 ...