Airplane of Will Rogers and Wiley Post showing technicians servicing the exterior, Renton Field, August 1935

• Main Author: Staff Photographer Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Airplanes > Washington (State) > Renton; Laborers > Washington (State) > Renton; Waterfronts > Washington (State) > Renton; Bodies of water > Washington (State) > Renton; Dogs > Washington (State) > Renton; Post; Wiley; 1898-1935 Rogers; Will; 1879-1935; Orion; Barrow; Point Barrow; Alaska; Siberia
• Online Access: http://cdm16786.contentdm.oclc.org:80/cdm/ref/collection/imlsmohai/id/2470

Technicians at Renton Field work on the plane that aviation pioneer Wiley Post planned to fly on an exploratory route to Europe through Alaska and Siberia. It is a hybrid with a Lockheed Orion fuselage and Lockheed Explorer wings equipped with a 550 HP Wasp engine and oversize 260-gallon gas tanks....