\'33 PILOT AVIATOR WILEY POST LOCKHEED VEGA AIRPLANE 8x10 PHOTO HISTORIC AVIATION for Sale

\'33 PILOT AVIATOR WILEY POST LOCKHEED VEGA AIRPLANE 8x10 PHOTO HISTORIC AVIATION For Sale

$\'33 PILOT AVIATOR WILEY POST LOCKHEED VEGA AIRPLANE 8x10 PHOTO HISTORIC AVIATION$
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\'33 PILOT AVIATOR WILEY POST LOCKHEED VEGA AIRPLANE 8x10 PHOTO HISTORIC AVIATION:
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\'33 PILOT AVIATOR WILEY POST LOCKHEED VEGA AIRPLANE 8x10 PHOTO HISTORIC AVIATION

TAKEN CIRCA 1933. The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed company starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record-breaking pilots who were attracted to the rugged and very long-range design. Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic single-handed in one, and Wiley Post flew his around the world twice.

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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 the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post\'s aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska. Post\'s Lockheed Vega aircraft, the Winnie Mae, was on display at the National Air and Space Museum\'s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center from 2003 to 2011. It is now featured in the \"Time and Navigation\" gallery on the second floor of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Final flight and death. In 1935 Post became interested in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast of the United States to Russia. Short on cash, he built a hybrid using parts salvaged from two different aircraft: the fuselage of an airworthy Lockheed Orion and the wings of a wrecked experimental Lockheed Explorer. The Explorer wing was six feet longer in span than the Orion\'s original wing, an advantage that extended the range of the hybrid aircraft. As the Explorer wing did not have retractable landing gear, it also lent itself to the fitting of floats for landing in the lakes of Alaska and Siberia. Lockheed flatly refused to make the modifications Post requested on the grounds that the two designs were incompatible and potentially a dangerous mix, leaving him no alternative but to make the changes himself.[9] Post\'s friend Will Rogers visited him often at the airport in Burbank, California, while Pacific Airmotive Ltd. was modifying the aircraft, and asked Post to fly him through Alaska in search of new material for his newspaper column. When the floats Post had ordered did not arrive at Seattle in time, he used a set that was designed for a larger type, making the already nose-heavy hybrid aircraft still more nose-heavy. However, according to the research of Bryan Sterling, the floats were the correct type for the aircraft. After making a test flight in July, Post and Rogers left Lake Washington, near Seattle, in early August and made several stops in Alaska. While Post piloted the aircraft, Rogers wrote his columns on his typewriter. Before they left Fairbanks they signed and mailed a yacht club burgee belonging to the South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club. The signed burgee is on display at South Coast Corinthian Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, California. On August 15, they left Fairbanks, Alaska, for Point Barrow. They were a few miles from Point Barrow when they became uncertain of their position in bad weather and landed in a lagoon to ask directions. On takeoff, the engine failed at low altitude, and the aircraft, uncontrollably nose-heavy at low speed, plunged into the lagoon, shearing off the right wing, and ended up inverted in the shallow water of the lagoon. Both men died instantly. Post is buried in Memorial Park Cemetery (section 48), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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