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Two years before piloting the flight that killed himself and the great comic Will Rogers, aviator Wiley Post completed a ’round-the-world trip that was solo save for a helpful robot, an autopilot device fashioned by Sperry. It wasn’t like he could sleep comfortably while his “co-pilot” took over the controls, but it did allow Post to journey the long distance navigator-less. An article from the July 15, 1933 Brooklyn Daily Eagle published just prior to the mission.
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Rogers steadies himself on the wing, with Post in front of the propellor.
I never trust a person who doesn’t have enemies. In order to be so popular you had to close your eyes to some bad things, close your mouth as well. You’ve played politics and made deals with some devils. Of course, you could have plenty of enemies and still be a bad person, so I guess my system is flawed.
American humorist Will Rogers famously claimed to have never met a man he didn’t like, though he had darker philosophical leanings than that statement would indicate. Before he became a full-time comedian, the part-Cherokee Indian played a cowboy for circus and vaudeville crowds. He was a tremendously popular national figure when he died in 1935 in a downed plane that was piloted over Alaska by his friend, the famed aviator Wiley Post.
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