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76-H-618 |
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1976
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Title
Fay Wells with the Winnie Mae
Full Description
Fay Gillis Wells, writer, broadcaster, foreign correspondent,
sailor, designer of boat interiors and noted aviatrix, stands in
the National Air and Space Museum beside the Winnie Mae. This is
the plane in which Wiley Post made his record-breaking global
flight in 1933. Fay Wells participated in Posts achievement by
managing the fuel dumps for the Winnie Mae in Siberia and by
providing Wiley Post with the maps and navigation data. These
services contributed to the success of the flight by which Post
broke his own global record of 1931.
Invited by Wiley Post to fly with him on a global mission in
1935, she decided instead to cover the Italian-Ethiopian War with
her journalist husband, Linton Wells. Thus, Will Rogers was
invited by Post as her replacement and went with him on the ill-
fated journey that ended in an air crash fatal to both men.
One of the founders of the Ninety-Nines, an association of
licensed women pilots (named for the number of charter members)
established in 1929, Fay Wells later became the organizations
Bicentennial program chairman. In that capacity, she initiated
the founding of the International Forest of Friendship in
Atchison, Kansas, hometown of Amelia Earhart, the first president
of the Ninety-Nines. The forest was established to honor
aviation and space and those who pioneered in air and space
flight. In the forest are plantings from tree seeds flown in
lunar orbit during NASAs Apollo 14 mission to the Moon by
astronaut Stuart Roosa. Apollo 17 astronaut Ron Evans planted
the "Moon tree" seedlings at the dedication ceremony in Atchison
on July 24,1986 (Amelia Earharts birthday).
Keywords
Fay Wells Wiley Post Will Rogers Linton Wells Amelia Earhart Ninety-Nines International Forest of Friendship Apollo 14 Ron Evans Stuart Roosa
Subject Category
Women,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
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- Center Number:
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- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000209
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: National Air and Space MuseumSmithsonian Institution
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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