“The engine, propeller, wings and fuel tanks were changed entirely.” “Prior to the flight…the airplane was completely rebuilt and several major changes incorporated which changed it from the original model,” the report of the Accident Board, Jesse M. In fact, the office Department of Commerce report – air traffic was then responsible to the Bureau of Air Commerce – issued after the crash specifically blamed the change from wheels to pontoons for the accident. Post had also significantly altered the engine of his Lockheed plane, enough so that other pilots had taken to calling it “Frankenplane” or “Wiley Post’s Bastard.” These alterations would later be blamed by many for the crash. Courtesy United States Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b05600. Rogers standing on the wing of the seaplane, with Wiley Post standing in front of the propeller, August 1935 at Fairbanks. Post’s plane, one of the most powerful in the world at the point, had already been modified with a wing from a Lockheed Explorer. With Alaska, then as now, having few runways, Post made the decision to equip his Lockheed Orion monoplane with floats. It was a time when very few Americans had flown and Rogers believed it to be the wave of the future. Rogers had always been a strong proponent of the aviation industry and planned to write columns boosting it during his flight with Post.
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In fact, Rogers first met Post – a fellow Oklahoman and fellow Cherokee – when Post was transporting film for movie companies. He had also appeared in more than 50 movies in the 18 years prior to his death. In 1935, he was at the height of his fame, having successfully transitioned to the newest mass media, radio, with weekly programs that were heard by nearly every American. And the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” “Good judgment comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” “I am not a member of any organized political party. Some of the more famous Will Rogers quotes? Even today, 80 years after his death he is still considered one of the most trenchant observers of the American scene and his one-liners are still frequently quoted. Rogers was likely the most famous man in America in the 1920s and 1930s, an entertainer and a syndicated humorist whose columns were carried more than 1,000 newspapers. Post was an aeronautic ‘swashbuckler’ who had actually served time for bank robbery before discovering aviation and turning his life around. He was also famous for his eye patch, having lost his left eye in an oil field accident many years before. Post was one of the most well-known pilots in the world, having been the first pilot to fly solo around the world and had set multiple speed and altitude records. Rogers and Post had been making a flight through Alaska and were planning to cross the Bering Sea to Siberia when they crashed. The death of famous humorist Will Rogers and his pilot Wiley Post on Augmade headlines across the world. This work is in the public domain, dating 1935.
Humorist Will Rogers, left, and famed aviator Wiley Post, at the Renton, Washington airport before their fatal Alaska trip.
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