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 ...

Aviation pioneer Wiley Post needed an oxygenated pressure suit to survive a high-altitude transcontinental flight. Enter engineer Russell Colley - who sews together the material for the suit on ...

Feb. 16, 2023 Wiley, who is from South Los Angeles, rose to international fame in 2018 with his official portrait of Barack Obama, which is housed in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery ...