HT Peter Schmidt 

Originally shared by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

80 Years Ago Today: Wiley Post flew the Lockheed 5C Vega “Winnie Mae” from Burbank, CA to Cleveland, OH in 7 hours and 19 minutes. The airplane’s cabin could not be pressurized, so Post wore this suit created for him by the B.F. Goodrich Company: http://bit.ly/1iPIivb.

See the Winnie Mae on display in the “Time and Navigation” exhibition at our Museum in Washington, DC.