https://symonsez.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/will-rogers-and-wiley-post-may-have-died-from-a-lack-of-patience/
This is a good article. I didn't know that their friendship went back quite that far. Apparently, the plane they crashed in was what my husband calls a "clip job". That's a bodywork term for putting two cars together to make one. It was two different airplanes that had been joined together, and may not have been fitted properly for a water landing. I had never heard that particular detail, but it makes sense. A lot of this generation probably never heard of Will Rogers, but I'll bet even more of them never heard of Wiley Post.
What a shame Americans don't know their history.
This is a good article. I didn't know that their friendship went back quite that far. Apparently, the plane they crashed in was what my husband calls a "clip job". That's a bodywork term for putting two cars together to make one. It was two different airplanes that had been joined together, and may not have been fitted properly for a water landing. I had never heard that particular detail, but it makes sense. A lot of this generation probably never heard of Will Rogers, but I'll bet even more of them never heard of Wiley Post.
What a shame Americans don't know their history.