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...best of navigators is impotent with neither sky nor horizon to work with, and that was the Winnie Mae's situation halfway across the Atlantic. "I don't think we can honestly say we were lost," Post said later, "but we just didn't know where we were" when they found themselves over land next morning. They spotted an airport, landed, asked: "Is this England, Scotland or Wales?"* It was Sealand Airdrome near Chester, England, 16 hr. 17 min. from Harbor Grace...
...little less than two hours the Winnie Mae was off for Berlin, landed first at Hanover by mistake. Fatigue was beginning to tell, for Post neglected to refuel there and turned back to Hanover again 15 min. after leaving...
...again by the flyers. Two hours rest, then out to the airport soon after midnight. Here the take-off was delayed because Russian mechanics, confusing gallons and litres, had overloaded the plane, and the excess fuel had to be siphoned out. It was 5 a. m. when the Winnie Mae roared into the East again. Still clipping off 150 m.p. it fol- lowed the Trans-Sib over the Ural mountains, landed after eleven hours at Novo Sibirsk. Another respite of eight hours, then on to Irkutsk and the half way mark, 1,050 mi. farther...
Back in Maysville, Okla., Brother Arthur Post ran to and fro between town and farm with news of the Winnie Mae's progress, but the pilot's elderly parents were too busy with cutting hay on their 90-acre farm to drop their work. In a general way they were proud of Son Wiley, although "he didn't have our blessing when he started out in this flying business." But the simple fact of his safety meant more to them than the geography of Siberia...
...Blagovyeschensk, 850 mi. beyond Irkutsk, the flyers encountered their first serious trouble when the Winnie Mae mired in mud. It was 14 hours before a detachment of soldiers with a U. S.-made tractor pulled the plane out. At Khabarovsk Post and Gatty deliberately sacrificed another 26 hours of their ahead-of-schedule time by giving their plane a minute overhaul, and taking 12 hours' sleep in preparation for the hazardous 2,100 mi. dash to Nome. They took off in the face of doubtful weather over the Gulf of Tartary. the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Bering Sea. This...