Editing Wiley Post (section)

===Around the world===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-11928, Ozeanflieger Wiley Post und Harold Gatty.jpg|thumb|220px|Wiley Post with [[Harold Gatty]] in Germany, 1931]]

In 1930, [[Circumnavigation world record progression|the record]] for [[Circumnavigation#Aviation|flying around the world]] was not held by a fixed-wing aircraft, but by the [[LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin|''Graf Zeppelin'']], piloted by [[Hugo Eckener]] in 1929 with a time of 21&nbsp;days. On June 23, 1931, Post and the Australian navigator [[Harold Gatty]] left [[Roosevelt Field]] on [[Long Island, New York]], in the ''Winnie Mae'' with a flight plan that would take them around the world, stopping at [[Harbour Grace, Newfoundland and Labrador|Harbour Grace]], [[RAF Sealand|Flintshire]], [[Hanover]] twice, [[Berlin Tempelhof Airport|Berlin]], [[Khodynka Aerodrome|Moscow]], [[Novosibirsk]], [[Irkutsk]], [[Blagoveshchensk]], [[Khabarovsk]], [[Nome, Alaska|Nome]] (where his propeller had to be repaired), [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]] (where the propeller was replaced), [[Edmonton City Centre (Blatchford Field) Airport|Edmonton]], and [[Cleveland Hopkins International Airport|Cleveland]] before returning to Roosevelt Field.<ref name="Orion Books">{{Cite book | isbn=0-517-57352-0 | title=Around the World in Eight Days: The Flight of the Winnie Mae | last1=Post | first1=Wiley | last2=Gatty | first2=Harold | year=1989 | publisher=Orion Books }}</ref>

They arrived back on July 1, after traveling {{convert|15474|miles|km}} in the record time of 8&nbsp;days and 15 hours and 51 minutes, in the first successful aerial circumnavigation by a single-engined monoplane. The reception they received rivaled [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s everywhere they went. They had lunch at the [[White House]] on July 7, rode in a [[ticker-tape parade]] the next day in New York City, and were honored at a banquet given by the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America at the [[Hotel Astor]]. After the flight, Post acquired the ''Winnie Mae'' from F.C. Hall. He and Gatty published an account of their journey, titled ''Around the World in Eight Days,'' with an introduction by Will Rogers.<ref name="Orion Books"/>