num_pages: 371
description: Drawn from thirty years of research a fascinating portrait of Wiley Post the pilot who circled the earth alone in a single-engine plane recreates his life from his poverty-stricken childhood in Texas to a brief career in armed robbery that sent him to jail in 1921 to his mysterious death and details how he overcame many challenges and obstacles to become a parachute jumper stunt pilot barnstormer and record-setting aviator.
language: English
title: Forgotten Eagle: Wiley Post, America's Heroic Aviation Pioneer
publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub