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Wearing his special flying suit and helmet Wiley Post climbs into the Winnie Mae, Los Angeles County, circa 1935

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Title: Wearing his special flying suit and helmet Wiley Post climbs into the Winnie Mae, Los Angeles County, circa 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: [circa January 1935]
1935-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Photograph appears with the article, "Post Calls Stratosphere Passenger Flying "Dream"," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1935: A1.
Text from newspaper caption: In special suit and helmet for high-altitude flying, Wiley Post, veteran flyer, is shown entering the cockpit of his plane, the Winnie-Mae. About to embark on another experimental flight, Post says stratosphere flying on any other than test flights is a matter for the distant future. The oxygen-helmet and a specially designed suit are equipment used by the 'round-the-world flyer in two flights into the stratosphere.
Handwritten on negative: Post on Flight
Text from negative sleeve: POST, WILEY X
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_7224
ark:/21198/zz002cxkqt
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles County
Helmets
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles County
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935
Winnie Mae (Airplane)
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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