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

Title: Wearing his special flying suit and helmet Wiley Post climbs into the Winnie Mae, Los Angeles County, circa 1935
Date Created: [circa January 1935]
Date: 1935-01
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph appears with the article, "Post Calls Stratosphere Passenger Flying "Dream"," Los Angeles Times, 03 Jan 1935: A1.
Caption: 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

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Names: Post, Wiley, 1898-1935
Winnie Mae (Airplane)
Location: Los Angeles County (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: Air pilots--American--California--Los Angeles County
Helmets
Airplanes--American--California--Los Angeles County

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local Identifier: uclamss_1429_7224
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002cxkqt
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Rights Country: US
Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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