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 ...

Its front page announced in large bold type: “Will Rogers and Wiley Post Die When Airplane Hits Frozen Bank, Accident Occurs at Take-Off, 15 Miles from Point Barrow.” Carone Cobden is a long ...

I wonder if Will Rogers would still say that in 2024? On Aug. 15, 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.

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 ...

Of Oklahoma's most historic people memorialized in art, one of the most easily recognizable in paintings or as statues might be humorist Will Rogers. Rogers, along with aviator Wiley Post, was ...

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, the first pilot to fly solo around ...

“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 ...