On July 22, 1933, American aviator Wiley Post landed at an airfield in New York, after flying solo around the world in just under eight days. It was a speed record for the distance. Post first made a name for himself when he flew around the northern part of the earth two years earlier. In August 1935, he was attempting to fly across the North Pole with Will Rogers when the plane crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. Both died.
