Will Rogers and Wiley Post before their ill-fated
Will Rogers and Wiley Post before their ill-fated flying exploration of Alaska. The plane behind them was an unstable combination of a Lockheed Orion fuselage with wings from a different Lockheed aircraft, an Explorer. The nose heavy craft later crashed taking off from a small lake near Point Barrow Alaska, killing both men on August 15, 1935. - (BSLOC_2014_17_29)
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11061969
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45264975
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2282px x 3000px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Everett Collection
