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WILEY POST’S CLAIM. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) Bartlesville (Oklahoma), Dec. 7. Wiley Post made his second hop toward the stratosphere in a remodelled monoplane Winnie Mae, and landed with the belief that he had set a new altitude record of around 55,000 feet level. “I went higher than I did last Monday by 5000 to 7000 feet,” Post said after bringing the plane to a perfect landing down wind with a dead stick. An examination of the barographs after Monday’s flight indicated that he reached 50,000 feet. Post estimated the net airspeed at the peak of the flight as from 350 to 375 miles an hour.
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Southland Times, Issue 22450, 10 December 1934, Page 7
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