By Stephen Chapis Eighty-nine years ago this week, record setting aviator Wiley Post and beloved literary Will Rogers were lost in the crash of the Lockheed Explorer-Orion near a sealing camp in ...

Will Rogers and Wiley Post, icons of Depression-era America, were killed in a plane crash in the northern tip of Alaska on August 15, 1935, while seeking a mail route to Russia.

On Aug. 15, 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.

Rogers, along with aviator Wiley Post, was killed in a plane crash on Aug. 15, 1935, near Point Barrow, Alaska. Since that time, both men have been honored in various ways.

The Winnie Mae, a special Lockheed Model 5C Vega flown by famed aviator Wiley Post, completed two around-the-world record flights and a series of special high-altitude substratospheric research ...

From Wikipedia Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator during the period known as the Golden Age of Aviation, ...

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 with ...

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. He said he never met a man he didn’t like, so the historians record. I wonder if Will Rogers would still say that ...