GREAT SPEED AT HIGH ALTITUDE
WILEY POST PLANS DASH ACROSS AMERICA (Received February 18, 7.5 p.m.) LOS ANGELES, February 17. Wiley Post, testing his "Stratosphere aeroplane," which is his world-famous "Winnie Mae," specially equipped for high-altitude flying, reached a speed of 300 miles an hour to-day at an altitude of five miles. Within a few days, perhaps tomorrow, Mr Post expects to start a cross-continental non-stop flight to New York, maintaining an altitude of more than five miles. He hopes to complete the trip in less than seven hours.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21402, 19 February 1935, Page 11
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