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| Title | Airplane of Will Rogers and Wiley Post showing technicians servicing the exterior, Renton Field, August 1935 |
| Photographer | Staff Photographer
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| Date | 1935 |
| Caption | Technicians at Renton Field work on the plane that aviation pioneer Wiley Post planned to fly on an exploratory route to Europe through Alaska and Siberia. It is a hybrid with a Lockheed Orion fuselage and Lockheed Explorer wings equipped with a 550 HP Wasp engine and oversize 260-gallon gas tanks. The large pontoons were installed by Northwest Air Service in Renton.
Post and his passenger, humorist Will Rogers, left Renton Field on August 7, 1935. The ill-fated journey ended on August 15 when the plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska and both men were killed. |
| Notes | Will Rogers also known as William Penn Adair Rogers [note from the Library of Congress Authority File].
Handwritten on negative: Wiley Post plane.
Handwritten on sleeve: Post, Wiley, Rogers, Will and the plane in which they met death; Northwest Air Service; Berger, Art, section head, aircraft engine dept. 15.
Caption information source: P-I research files.
Date photograph was filed at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (date of photograph and file date may differ by a month or more): September 27, 1935. |
| Subjects | Airplanes--Washington (State)--Renton; Laborers--Washington (State)--Renton; Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Renton; Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Renton; Dogs--Washington (State)--Renton |
| Personal Names | Post, Wiley, 1898-1935
Rogers, Will, 1879-1935 |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Renton |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1986.5.39315.1 |
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| Credit Line | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 4 x 5 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
