EARLY DAYS OF AVIATION - Early Flight - Harrold Gatty and Wiley Post who flew round the globe in 1931 in a Lockheed Vega named the Winnie Mae . --- Harold Charles Gatty ( 1903 – 1957) was an Australian navigator and aviation pioneer whom Charles Lindbergh called “Prince of Navigators”. Wiley Hardeman Post (1898 – 1935) was a famed one eyed American aviator who famously developed an early pressure suit and discovered the jet stream.

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