Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2019.001.116 |
Object Name |
Clipping, Newspaper |
Title |
Winnie Mae to Make no Flight in Clarksville |
Collection |
Wiley Post Collection |
Scope & Content |
A newspaper article discussing F. C. Hall's planned return to Clarksville, Oklahoma. |
Date |
Undated |
Transcription |
(Top) Winnie Mae to Make No Flight In Clarksville —— Visitors Will Be Welcomed to View Famous "Around the World" Ship on Ground. —— Last Friday The Times announced that F.C. Hall of Oklahoma City, owner of the "Winnie Mae," the famous monoplane in which Wylie Post and Harold Gatty circled the globe in a little more than one week, would Again visit Clarksville, in the "Winnie Mae," in the near future. Mr. Hall, who expects to come to Clarrksville within the next ten days, if possible, to visit his mother, Mrs. H.A. Hall and sister, Mrs. J.M. McMahan and other relatives, announces in a letter received this week that local people and visitors who wish to view the famous plane, which has attracted attention in many sections of America and foreign countries since its noted trip a little more than one year ago, will be welcomed at the landing field while the plane is here. The plane will make no flights while in Clarksville, Mr. Hall states, on account of the dangers which might arise, due to the small space afforded on the landing field. The plane will be piloted, as on its former visits to Clarksville, by Wiley Post, who piloted the plane on the globe-circling tour during the latter portion of June, 1931. The "Winnie Mae" will appear as it has appeared on former trips to Clarksville, except that additional instrument for the "around the world" trip last year. Its speed was increased for this trip, however, and the "Winnie Mae" easily makes more than 200 miles an hour. The trip between Oklahoma City and Clarksville is usually made in an hour or in very few minutes more than an hour. Some idea of the dangers experienced in take’offs and landings on the local field may be realized when its remembered that the Winnie Mae is landed at a speed of from fifty-five to sixty miles per hour, a speed regarded By many as dangerous for automobiles on the best of straight highways. |
People |
F. C. Hall Wiley Post |
Search Terms |
Flight Return Trip Clarksville Oklahoma Monoplane Danger Oklahoma City |