Word: odom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran pilot was riding high on the fame of his solo flight around the world in the famed Winnie Mae in 186 hours and 49 minutes. Flyer Post gave the kid a piece of the Winnie Mae's fabric, and even autograptfed it for him. Said young Bill Odom brashly: "I'm gonna fly around the world myself some...
Last week, twelve years after Wiley Post had crashed to his death with Will Rogers in Alaska, Bill Odom, now a lean, balding 27, made good. Alone in Penmaker Milton Reynold's Bombshell, he circled the globe between Thursday and Sunday...
...Tokyo (13,345 miles), Odom snatched a few minutes' sleep on one of the Bombshell's wings. At Anchorage (16,745 miles), a mechanic caught him napping, standing up. There he pinned his cherished piece of Winnie Mae's covering to a wreath and left it as a memorial to his boyhood hero, Wiley Post...
...Tokyo, Reynolds grandiloquently announced that he was taking over the controls. But when the plane came into LaGuardia Field, Pilot Odom, red-eyed and dog-tired, was still in the pilot's seat. He had flown round the world in 78 hours and 55 minutes. More remarkable, the plane was forced to fly 20,000 miles, some 5,000 miles more than Hughes, because Reynolds had not been able to get permission to fly over Russia...
...they wearily climbed out of the plane, Pilot Odom said: "I'm going to sleep." Said Sallee: "I'm going to eat, sleep and get married." (He did.) Two days later, ads in Manhattan papers cried the real news: "Just arrived! 'Reynolds Bombshell' ball-point pens...