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The one-eyed oil worker who invented an early spacesuit
The one-eyed oil worker who invented an early spacesuit
   August 1934 Post in his atmospheric pressure suit. Image: PhotoQuest/Getty Images Raised by cotton farmers in Texas and Oklahoma, Wiley Post first glimpsed a plane in flight in 1913 at a county fair. He was 15 years old. Desperate to fly, he enrolled in aviation school and tried to join the U.S. Army Air Service, but did **t get a chance to get in the cockpit He worked for a time as a roughneck in the oil fields of the southwest, where he was was jailed for more than a year for armed robbery He finally got his chance to fly when he joined Burrell Tibbs’ Flying Circus as a parachute jumper, while continuing to work in the oil industry as his main source of income. Read more... More about Space, Science, History, Aviation, and Airplanes ??????? ??????: The one-eyed oil worker who invented an early spacesuit || ??????: rss || ??????: اسم منتداك
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