Wiley Hardeman Post ( English Wiley Hardeman Post ; 1898 - 1935 ) - American pilot.
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| Date of Birth | November 22, 1898 | |
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| Date of death | August 15, 1935 (aged 36) | |
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| Citizenship |  USA | |
| Occupation | Aviator | |
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Biography
Born November 22, 1898 in Van Zandt County, Texas, USA in the family of a Scottish farmer and Indian woman.
He worked as a miner, lost his left eye, taking part in performances of the air circus as a paratrooper. The pilot since 1924, was a personal pilot with a millionaire, a test pilot of Lockheed aircraft.
In 1930, on a Lockheed Vega single-engine aircraft, named "Winnie May" in honor of his daughter, Post won the National Air Derby - Los Angeles - Chicago Air Competition.
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| Wiley Post and Harold Gatti | |
In 1931, the Post, together with the navigator Harold Gatti, made a round-the-world flight en route New York - Berlin - Moscow - Irkutsk - Khabarovsk - Nome - Cleveland - New York in a record time of 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes. For which, along with Harold Gatti was awarded the Cross of Merit of Flight .
In 1933, he single-handedly traveled around the world in New York - Berlin - Moscow - Alaska - New York flights in 7 days 18 hours 49 minutes [2] . For this flight, he was awarded the FAI Gold Aviation Medal . In 1934, he developed a special suit for flights at an altitude of 9100 m.
He died in a plane crash on August 15, 1935 on the way from Fairbanks to Point Barrow, Alaska, USA. He intended to fly a Lockheed seaplane with a 550 horsepower Pratt & Whitney Wasp engine on the route Alaska-Wellen-Nagaevo-Yakutsk-Irkutsk-Krasnoyarsk-Sverdlovsk-Moscow with one landing in Yakutsk, but due to bad weather Post pilot strayed. He was able to make a splashdown at one of the points to find out his location, but when taking off, the engine failed and the plane fell into the water. The post and the accompanying famous comedian writer Will Rogers died.
Memory
- Barrow Airport is named after Lent.
Notes
- ↑ National Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics , Neufeld M. J. , Spencer A. M. Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: An Autobiography - National Geographic , 2010. - P. 156. - ISBN 978-1-4262-0653-5
- ↑ Red Karelia. 1935. July 23, August 15.