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WILEY POST Gatty Airplane Around World 1931 Newspaper *
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Here is a complete, genuine historic newspaper with the following title, date and description: THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, Albany NY June 26, 1931
* Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
* 1st airplane flight around the World (during flight)
* Nice front page headline for display
This 32 page newspaper has a banner headline on the front page:
* BIRDMEN OFF FOR SIBERIA ON WORLD FLIGHT
with subheads that include: "Post, Gatty Leave Moscow" and more.
This was the very first time a airplane flew around the World. (historic) Other news of the day throughout.
Light browning with minor margin wear, otherwise in good condition.
wikipedia notes: Like many pilots at the time, Post disliked the fact that the speed 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, Berlin, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Nome, Fairbanks, Edmonton, and Cleveland before returning to Roosevelt Field. They arrived back on July 1 after traveling 15,474 miles in the record time of 8 days and 15 hours and 51 minutes. The reception they received rivaled 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. |
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