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Description
Wiley Post, left, and Harold Getty posing in front of Winnie Mae, a Lockheed Cvega 5C monoplane.
The two pilots flew the plane around the world starting from New York on June 23, 1931. They returned to New York on July 1, after a flight of 15,474 miles in record time: 8 days, 15 hours and 51 minutes.
They flew to Old Orchard later that summer.
About This Item
- Title: Wiley Post and Harold Getty, Old Orchard Beach, August 15, 1931
- Creator: Wide World Photos
- Creation Date: circa 1931
- Subject Date: circa 1931
- Location: Old Orchard Beach, York County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 21 cm x 26 cm
- Local Code: HJScr3_p032_001
- Collection: Harry Jones Scrapbook Collection
- Object Type: Image
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- Aeronautics--History
- Air pilots--American
- Air travel
- Airplanes--Maine
- Beaches--Maine--Old Orchard
- Gatty, Harold, 1903-1957
- Jones, Harry M., 1890-1973--Friends & associates--Maine--Old Orchard
- Lockheed aircraft
- Post, Wiley, 1898-1935
- Winnie Mae (Airplane)
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Old Orchard Beach Historical SocietyP.O. Box 464, Old Orchard, ME 04064
(207) 934-9319
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