Item 21270 - Wiley Post and Harold Getty, Old Orchard Beach, August 15, 1931
- Item 21270 - Wiley Post and Harold Getty, Old Orchard Beach, August 15, 1931
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- Item 21270
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Image Info Wiley Post, left, and Harold Getty posing in front of Winnie Mae, a Lockheed Cvega 5C monoplane.
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The two pilots flew the plane around the world starting from New York on June 23, 1931. They returned to New York on July 1, after a flight of 15,474 miles in record time: 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes.
They flew to Old Orchard later that summer.
