Wiley Post

22. July 2010 marks the 77th anniversary of Wiley Post 1933 solo flight Lockheed 5 C Vega Winnie Mae in the world. This records flight shows several major aviation techniques. It uses the relatively new aeronautical equipment — autopilot and radio direction finder. Correcting errors in the aviation sector on autopilot with, press and hold the aircraft in the course. Radio direction finder, helped the post, and then move on to the aircraft along the route towards the specific radio transmitters.

Wiley Post standing in front of his Winnie Mae. Lockheed 5 C Vega Winnie Mae Steven f. Udvar Hazy Center

Even though the flight was aborted because the post had to repair the gyroscope and bent propeller, he set up seven days, 18 hours, 49 minutes, post and would last around--world aikakirjansa eight days, also set the Winnie Mae 1931 navigator Harold Gatty. That flight was started on 23 June and 1 July; it concerns 15,474 miles.It broke the Airship Graf Zeppelin previously held by the 20th day, four-hour 1929 set record in the same year, Rand McNally published account of the flight around the World during the eight days of authored by postal and Gatty. Flights, as well as the post was to use the ticker tape parade in New York.

The post's 1933 flight has been deprecated in favor of inspiration. July 1938 Howard Hughes and his crew: circled successfully Lockheed Super Electra, the most advanced radio and air navigation services gear equipped with globe. When asked how his flight compared to the post's Hughes replied "Wiley Post flight still the most significant in the history of flight.It will never be cloned. He made alone! … It's like by dragging a rabbit out of hat or sawing woman in half. "

In 1934 the post began to examine the possibilities of high-altitude on minimizing long-distance below.Winnie Mae in the cabin was not pressurized, however. That meant that post, b.f. Goodrich Company, it should develop world's first flight suit. pressured tried to Post several times in 1935, the solo records high height transcontinental speed to set up, but could not, in particular, the company first 15 March was, however, be noted. Wearing a pressurized suit, and at an altitude of more than 30 000 feet below the post flew Winnie Mae, now equipped with a Supercharger and jettisonable landing gear Burbank, California, Cleveland, seven hours 19 minutes from 2,035 nautical miles; sometimes the aircraft reached the ground speed of 340 mph. This flight showed that significant speed will increase to achieve a high altitude, is below.

Wiley Post, the pressure in the country, (b) (Presidents of Chambers), g.f. Goodrich company created by the

August 1935 post and his friend and Oklahoma, humorist Will Rogers fellow in Aerial tour of Alaska and Siberia. Post below for hybrid aircraft Lockheed Orion and Lockheed-Explorer, powered by 550-hp Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine and floats, which had been badly-is already a makeshift aircraft is equipped with.Level was too heavy fuel plus hunting and fishing gear.15. August they leave Fairbanks, Alaska, Point Barrow on the road below of fog and went into the lagoon and to obtain his bearings are connected with a country other than that received will be lost.When they took again the engine failed and the aircraft plunged to the ground Both men died immediately. [1] [2].

Post and Rogers deaths of nature international, sadness outpouring. Post's body confirms the status of the Oklahoma state capitol rotunda building. among the mourners had DISTINGUISHED famous American aviators, as Amelia Earhart and high-ranking political figures.

Winnie Mae, one of the most significant playing a pioneering role in the aircraft of the 1930s, has been since 1936 of the National Air and Space Museum-collection and is on the screen Steven f. Udvar Hazy Center. Post's pressurized flight clothing is also a museum collection and a restore is in progress at the Smithsonian Institute Museum Conservation Institute, Suitland, Maryland.

Dominick a. Pisano is curator aerospace region of the National Air and Space Museum