STRATOSPHERE PLANE
Wiley Post’s Expectations LOS ANGELES. Feb. 17. Wiley Post, testing his “stratosphere plane’’—which is his world-famous Winnie Mae specially equipped tor highaltitude (lying—reached a speed of '3OO miles an hour to day at an altitude of five miles. Within a lew days, perhaps to-mor-row, Mr Post expects to start a crosscontinental, non-stop flight to NewYork, maintaining an altitude of over five miles. He hopes to complete the trip in less than seven hours.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 57, 19 February 1935, Page 7
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