Wiley Post Set Flying Records with One Eye Closed

By BARTEE HAILE
Wiley Post and his Australian navigator landed in New York City on Jul. 1, 1931 completing
an epic around-the-world flight in record-breaking time. Two states claimed Wiley Hardeman Post as a native son. Texas had birth going for it since the intrepid aviator began his short life in Van Zandt County a couple of years shy of the twentieth century. Oklahoma, however,had residency on its side because the Posts relocated north of the Red River when Wiley was nine.

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