1931 newspaper WILEY POST & HAROLD GATTY set AROUND THE WORLD AVIATION RECORD

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1931 newspaper WILEY POST & HAROLD GATTY set a NEW around the world AVIATION speed RECORD of 8 days, 16 hours -
inv # 6S-208
SEE PHOTO-----An ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER front page of the
Milwaukee Sentinel
(WI) dated July 27, 1931.
This has a "white on black" headline , map, photos, and a long report of famed aviators
WILEY POST and HAROLD GATTY setting the new around-the-world aviation speed record
of slightly less than 8 days, 16 hours.
Great display newspaper on their record setting flight !!
Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898
– August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator during the interwar period, 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.
Harold Charles Gatty (5 January 1903 – 30 August 1957) was an Australian navigator and aviation pioneer. Charles Lindbergh called Gatty the "Prince of Navigators". In 1931, Gatty served as navigator, along with pilot Wiley Post, on the flight which set the record for aerial circumnavigation of the world, flying a distance of 15,747 miles
in a Lockheed Vega named the Winnie Mae, in 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes.
In 1930, the record for flying around the world was not held by a fixed-wing aircraft, but by the Graf Zeppelin, piloted by Hugo Eckener in 1929 with a time of 21 days. On June 23, 1931, Post and his navigator, Harold Gatty, left Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, in the Winnie Mae with a flight plan that would take them around the world, stopping at Harbour Grace, Flintshire, Hanover twice, Berlin, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Nome, where his propeller had to be repaired, Fairbanks where the propeller was replaced, Edmonton, and Cleveland before returning to Roosevelt Field. They arrived back on July 1, after traveling 15,474 miles (24,903 km) in the record time of 8 days and 15 hours and 51 minutes. The reception they received rivaled Charles Lindbergh's everywhere they went. They had lunch at the White House on July 6, rode in a ticker-tape parade the next day in New York City, and were honored at a banquet given by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America at the Hotel Astor. After the flight, Post acquired the Winnie Mae from F.C. Hall, and he and Gatty published an account of their journey titled, Around the World in Eight Days, with an introduction by Will Rogers.
This issue is the front page only, NOT the entire newspaper. Great for display purposes  !!!
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