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Wiley Post - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1099 words) |
 | Post was the personal pilot of wealthy Oklahoma oilmen Powell Briscoe and F.C. Hall in 1930 when Hall bought a high-wing, single-engine Lockheed Vega, one of the most famous record-breaking planes of the early 1930s. |
| Over the next year, Post improved his airplane by installing an autopilot device and a radio compass that were in their final stages of development by the Sperry Gyroscope Company and the United States Army. |
| Post became interested in 1935 in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast of the United States to Russia. |
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