Atter a gruelling world flight replete with mishaps, bad weather and enforced delays) Me." Wiley Post exhausted and hungry, landed fu Floyd Bennett field at midnight, breaking the former world. Might record by 20 he. 26 min, 'Ten thousand persons were on the field when the. Winnie 'Mac, Dattered and scratched circled the field and' came down 186. he. '50 min, from the tine she left on the world journey.
front of the Administration building' with officials. "and close friends of the flyer was Mrs. Post, alternately smiling' and "wiping Out in front of the enthusiastic crowd and leading the cheering was Mr, Harold Gatty, Post's com anion on the world fight in 1981 when the record of 207 hr. 16 min, Was sel, eft thers last evening at 7.431 o'clock for Edmonton.
Landing at Edmonton at 9.13 clock, eastern daylight time thi morning "he refuelled and left at 10.41 o'clock, The Winnie Mae had been entirely rebuilt for the present flight and her cruising radius was 1,000 i It was this rebuilding that, enabled him to eliminate Nome on His. homeward fights The new ems ai consume la as and lof gas for the fights as planned.
cre was always" an. ample supp Onis" when compelled to cruise for ral hours outside of Fairbanks othe "danger of fuel. exhaustion appear.
When Mr. Post left Edmonton he was' 20 hr. 12 min. ahead of his record.—United Press.
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