I guess Wiley Post didn’t travel everywhere by plane!
Wiley Post, seen above, was a very famous and skilled aviator in the 1930s. He is shown in Oklahoma City, on 15th Street and Lincoln, with his new 1932 Ford V-8 three-window coupe (the state capitol building can be seen in the background).
30 days of biking: Will Rogers and Wiley Post flew here
Boaters and rafters must consider these snags where the Cedar River flows into Lake Washington the same way that bicyclists view tacks or broken bottles in the road. Maybe worse.
While a chard of glass can puncture a tire, a limb from one of these trees can poke a hole in a fiberglass boat or rubber raft and sink it.
These trees have likely taken a long trip to get here. The Cedar River picks up plenty of fallen trees as it meanders through its flood zone to the river channel that cuts through Renton. The occasional flood pushes the snags downstream and eventually out into Lake Washington.
This pleasant spot nestled between the Boeing plant and the end of the Renton Airport runway can be reached via Sixth Street in Renton, heading west. It’s 13-mile round-trip from my home.
Until today, I didn’t know that this is the spot where famed American humorist Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post left the United States for their ill-fated trip to the Alaska Territory in 1935… read more
Antique Vintage 1936 Will Rogers Wiley Post Commemorative Airplane Crash Lamp
File under things I can’t believe exist. And things I can’t believe exist that I don’t somehow own.
(Source: ebay.com)
More on the opening of the Ryan Center at Floyd Bennett Field this past weekend, which houses a replica of the Winnie Mae:
Also on hand were members of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project, an all-volunteer group that restores aircrafts at Floyd Bennett’s Hangar B. To celebrate the Ryan Center’s opening, they built from scratch a full-scale replica of the Winnie Mae, the plane Wiley Post used to be the first pilot to fly solo around the world – departing from Floyd Bennett.
15 Jun 1933, Floyd Bennett Field, New York, USA —- 6/15/1933-Floyd Bennett Field, NY- Wiley Post of Oklahoma, round-the-world flyer, arrived at Floyd Bennett Field in his globe-girdling plane, Winnie Mae, 6/15, after a flight from Dayton, Ohio to prepare for his solo attempt to better the 8-day, 15-hour, 51-minute round-the-world record which he and Harold Gatty set last year. This photo shows the crowd following the Winnie Mae as it was rolled into a hangar for final tests. —- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Christening of the replica of Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae at the new Ryan Center at Floyd Bennett Field in New York.
Here is another view of the replica of Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae that will be unveiled at the Ryan Visitor Center at Floyd Bennett Field this weekend in New York.
A replica of Wiley Post’s Winnie Mae is unveiled this weekend at the Ryan Visitor Center at Floyd Bennett Field in New York.
