Around The World In Eight Days Author:Wiley Post, Harold Gatty Having just won the 1930 National Air Races at Chicago, and with a $7,500.00 purse in their pockets, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty were looking for new records to break. Irked by the recent publicity given the "Graf Zeppelin" on its twenty-one-day flight around the world, Post and Gatty set out to prove that an airplane could... more » do much better.
They took to the air in Post's "Winnie Mae", a Lockheed Vega, with no spare parts, no parachutes and no life rafts - with nothing, really but their expert preparation and their own considerable wit. Their flight was as important as Lindbergh's in what it showed about the reliability of the airplane and the future possibilities of worldwide navigation. This book records all the adventures, and the moments of apprehension, and the experience of the people Post and Gatty met during their great pioneering adventure.« less