FIVE MILES HIGH
WILEY POST fLIES FAST
PRELUDE TO LONGER EFFORT
.. LOS ANGELAS, February 17."' Wiley, Post, testing his '''stratosphere aeroplane," which is his world-famous Winnie Mac specially equipped for high altitude flying, reached a speed of 300 miles an hour today at an altitude of five miles. - Within a few days, perhaps, tomorrow, he expects to-start across continent rion-stop flight to New York, maintaining an altitude of over five miles. He hopes to complete the trip in less than seven hours.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 9
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82FIVE MILES HIGH Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 9
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