1990 AMERICAS PATRIOTIC HEROES WILEY POST FDC 25 CENT STAMP

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This product is a used 25 cent stamp issued in the United States in 1990. The stamp features Wiley Post and is part of the America Patriotic Heroes series. It was cancelled on its first day of issue and comes with no certification.

Wiley Post

First to Fly Solo Around the World July 22, 1933

W iley Post (1899-1935) was a dashing, daring pilot and one of the most colorful figures in the early days of American aviation. His fascination with airplanes led him to set many records and make numerous landmark flights. Among them was the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1933.

Stunt flying was Post's entree into the aviation world. He became a featured parachute jumper at fairs, and used the money he earned to take piloting lessons. In 1926, the paid $600 to buy and recondition an old plane of his own.

In the late 1920s, Post became a pilot for Oklahoma oilman F.C. Hall. Flying Hall's plane, the Winnie Mae, in 1930, he won the Bendix Trophy race from Los Angeles to Chicago over some of the country's best pilots. He invested the prize money in an around-the-

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world flight with Harold Gatty that established a new record. With Post at the controls and Gatty navigating, the Winnie Mae circled the globe in eight days, 15 hours, and 51 minutes.

After buying the Winnie Mae in 1933, Post decided to repeat his around-the-world trek, only this time as a solo flight. Taking off from New York on July 15, he traveled eastward by way of the British Isles, Russia, Siberia, and Alaska, and then back to New York. The record-breaking flight was completed in the almost unbelievable time of seven days, 18 hours, and 491/2 minutes.

The 25 U.S. stamp on this Cover, showing Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae, was issued on November 20, 1979. The Cover is postmarked in Grand Saline, Texas, Post's birthplace, on the anniversary of the completion of his solo around-the-world flight.