Pilot Wiley Post (1898-1935), accompanied by navigator Harold Gatty (1903-1957), set the speed record for around-the-world flight during a trip completed on July 1, 1931. Post later became the first pilot to circle the globe solo. He died, along with humorist Will Rogers, when a plane he was piloting crashed during takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow, Alaska. Commemorative postal cover honoring the round-the-world flight of the Winnie Mae, bearing several international postmarks, signed in the designated field in ink by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty. In fine condition.
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